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Pay for yourself: hunt my inbox for un-refunded returns and email the merchants

Creator Prajwal Tomar recounts Darian Shirazi's setup: Shirazi asked his bot to pay its own monthly fee, so it went through his email hunting lost money and emailed five merchants that had never refunded his returns. Tomar reports it has now made back more than the subscription costs.

How it works

  1. Tell the bot to pay for itself
  2. Bot searches his email for lost money
  3. Finds returns that were never refunded
  4. Emails five merchants about the missing refunds
  5. Recovered money exceeds the subscription cost

Why it’s worth knowing

The brief was 'pay for yourself' — and the bot funded its own subscription out of refunds its owner never knew he was owed.

Where it’s from

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

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