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Two months of hands-off agent operation earned about ¥950

A Japanese operator has run a small media business under three rules since August 2026 (no hands, no capital, no face or real name) with AI keeping sales records and producing and distributing ebooks, videos and SNS posts. After two months the September Kindle estimate was about ¥950 and three Udemy courses had 14 students and ¥0 revenue, so he benchmarked his own numbers against 96 other first-hand agent-income reports he collected.

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How it works

  1. Set three rules: no hands, no capital, no identity
  2. The AI keeps the sales ledger
  3. Agent produces ebooks, videos and SNS posts and distributes them
  4. After two months, tally revenue
  5. Collect 96 outside first-hand reports to benchmark the result

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent really did run the whole operation for two months; the honest total was about ¥950, and the operator published the receipts next to 96 similar reports.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on zenn.dev. See the original ↗

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