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I built an online game on a Raspberry Pi between farm jobs. It made $3,000.

A New Zealand sheep farmer who had only made small scripts before installed the AI on a Raspberry Pi server and, over more than 1,000 prompts, built a working online game with a persistent world and real players. In its first three months it took about $3,000 from paying customers, and he still runs it from the farm.

$3,000

How it works

  1. Install the AI on a Raspberry Pi 5
  2. Prompt his way to a walking character, then a persistent world, combat, items and multiplayer
  3. Learn hosting, payments and the app store process as he goes
  4. Use browser AI tools inside the cloud dashboards, checking what they do
  5. Ship the game and keep patching it from his phone between farm jobs

Why it’s worth knowing

The whole business runs on a little computer in a farm shed, and he patches it from his phone in the field.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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