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JAKE QUIT $2,800/MONTH FREELANCING AND RUNS HERMES AGENT FROM A $999 MACBOOK. NETS $4,400/MONTH ON 15 MINUTE REPORTS
jake was grinding $2,800 a month writing landing pages for startups, 50 hours a week, no leverage, every dollar tied to his time on the keyboard
he found hermes agent in a reddit thread, installed it on his macbook air in 30 minutes, ran a competitor research brief and delivered the same report a research firm charges $2,000 for in 15 minutes
first week he sent 50 cold messages on upwork offering competitor reports at $300, closed 3 clients, delivered 3 reports in under an hour total
by month 3 his hermes folder had 47 saved skills, every new report finishes 40% faster than the last because the agent reuses what worked before
he charges $300 per report and runs 15 a month, plus 6 retainer clients paying $400 each. nets $4,400 in pure margin on $2 a month in electricity
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Gipp 🦅@gippp69
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A 19 YEAR OLD GIRL MAKES $10,000-15,000/MONTH MAKING VIDEOS FOR IPAD KIDS. CALLS IT EMBARRASSING. THE BILLS DON’T CARE
finds viral kids video. copies description. pastes into Flik AI. downloads. uploads. millions of views
but one video is still one video. the real money is the system. five channels. Claude as operations manager. Mac Mini runs 24/7
Claude Computer Use controls the screen. Skills load per channel at task init. Dispatch queues overnight from phone. iCloud syncs every output automatically. Google Calendar never misses a publish
one review session per week. everything else automated
$799 Mac Mini. $55/month tools. month 12: $8,000-12,000/month
kids rewatch the same video 50 times. the algorithm rewards it. Claude generates faster than any studio
NO1ennn@N01ennn
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@insomnia_vip @CyfrinUpdraft blame the hacker after the exploit or learn to read the contract before it ships, only one of those scales
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True peace of mind in web3 is just a free @CyfrinUpdraft course away
Insomnia@insomnia_vip
Over $4B has been stolen from crypto projects over the years Most people immediately blame hackers But in many cases the real issue was vulnerable smart contracts Thats where @cyfrin comes in Cyfrin is one of the largest blockchain security companies today They audit smart contracts find vulnerabilities build security tools and help protect protocols securing more than $50B in value What I like is that they do much more than just audits They built: -> Updraft - free Web3 courses for anyone looking to learn -> Cygent - an AI security engineer for finding vulnerabilities -> BattleChain - a place where researchers can attack contracts before launch One bug can cost a protocol millions Finding it before launch is a lot cheaper
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@leopardracer swapping the cloud backend for local llm fit and keeping the same agent running is the move every dev is going to make eventually
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THIS SPANISH DEV REFUSED TO PAY FOR AI EVER AGAIN
he had $6,000 loaded into Minimax and said no
built a Hermes agent then swapped the entire cloud backend for a local LLM Fit setup and now runs the whole thing for free on his own machine
no API bills no token anxiety no subscriptions
while everyone else is watching their credits burn he is running agents locally and keeping every dollar
this is what it looks like when someone actually figures it out
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Gipp 🦅@gippp69
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JAKE MILLER REPLACED A $40,000/MONTH AWS BILL WITH 100 MAC MINIS IN HIS APARTMENT. EVERY AI SUBSCRIPTION NOW FREE AT $3 IN ELECTRICITY PER BOX
jake was paying $40,000 a month renting H100 servers in the cloud for his AI startup, the quality was magic but the burn rate was killing the runway
he did the math on running it locally and bought 100 mac mini m4s, racked them in his bedroom pulling less total power than three nvidia servers while delivering the same throughput
claude code, chatgpt pro, gemini, cursor and copilot used to cost him another $459 a month combined, all of them now run free on his local stack with one environment variable
ollama added support for the anthropic messages api in january 2026, so claude code itself connects to your local mac mini with one line of code, same interface, zero subscription bills
apple stores ran out of mac minis in 2026 because $599 one time beats $200 a month forever, that shortage is the most honest product review any machine has ever received
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starmex@starmexxx
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@leopardracer headcount as liability instead of leverage is the sentence that defines the next 5 years
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RONIN RUNS A $40K/MO AGENCY WITH ZERO EMPLOYEES
this guy spun up a CEO, COO and a full agent workforce in half an hour, all running claude under the hood, all tasks visible in real time, all approvals through one inbox
his total costs: $750/month, 90% margin, zero payroll, zero standups, zero “let me check with my team”
what used to cost $30k/month in salaries now costs cents in api calls
headcount isn’t leverage anymore, it’s a liability
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Ronin@DeRonin_
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Ex-Citibank quant trader built Polymarket bot and turned $968 → $155,475 using one edge
I traced his 13,744 trades using Claude → backtested his strategy on 77M trades dataset
that gap is the secret:
fair_prob = 0.50
market_price = 0.02 to 0.25
edge = fair_prob - market_price
the edge is not one price. it's a probability model that runs on every 5-minute BTC window and only fires when the market price disagrees with it.
edge = fair_prob - market_price
when the gap is wide enough, it enters. that's why his fills land everywhere from 2¢ to 67¢. sometimes the crowd underprices a cheap longshot, sometimes it misprices a near-coinflip at 50¢
Profile: @xuanxuan008?r=joinjoinjoin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">polymarket.com/@xuanxuan008?r…
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@slash1sol 78.6% win rate on a market where the question is "do they ship on time" and almost nobody plays this side
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While everyone waits for GPT-5.6, this trader is quietly betting it WON'T ship on time and making bank.
[Dzibra1998.] only trades AI release-date markets on Polymarket.
> NO on GPT-5.6 by June 8: $10.6K in at 77.1¢ -> now $13.5K -> +27.5%.
> NO by June 15: +100.3%.
> NO by June 5: +25.6%.
78.6% win rate with $9,171 PnL.
He turned $498 into this since January.
The edge is simple: model launches always slip.
The crowd trades rumors but he trades the engineering timeline.
Check his here -> @Dzibra1998" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">predictparity.com/traders/p/@Dzi….?code=slash
slash1s@slash1sol
Just went all-in on France to beat Senegal at the World Cup and I didn't wait a single second for the fill. The fastest sports prediction exchange just went public. @predofficial doesn't move like a betting site. It moves like an exchange. > Market order on France moneyline at 68¢. > Filled in under 200ms -- instant. > Spreads under 2%, zero house edge. > Cash sitting idle? Still earning 6% APY till kickoff. No book, no house taking the other side and no getting capped or banned the moment you start winning. It's peer-to-peer -- you trade sports outcomes like assets, against other traders, on Base. And the launch came loaded: > Brand new desktop UI -- full order book, long/short, market & limit. > New sports live on day one. > FIFA Friendlies. > World Cup markets running right now. > Exclusive future markets you will NOT find on any other platform. Sportsbooks were built to beat you. PRED was built so you can't be stopped. The Sports Prediction Exchange has arrived. Winners welcome and this time they mean it. Trade the game -> pred.app/?referral_code… Don't forget to bookmark it.
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@insomnia_vip @Polymarket 0.3c on a bitcoin market most traders never even loaded, 25,312% return on patience nobody else had
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For 10 years he managed air traffic without losing a single plane
Then the tower was automated and he lost the job
A few months later he turned $1,100 into more than $800,000 on @Polymarket
His wallet is public: @easyclap?via=insomnia" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">polymarket.com/@easyclap?via=…
Most traders are still looking for the perfect signal
He built a system that runs hundreds of them at once
At the center is Claude Opus 4.8
Around it are up to 250 AI agents scanning order books, market data, news feeds and prediction markets in parallel
Every opportunity gets broken down, checked, scored and reviewed before capital is deployed
In one trade, a Bitcoin market was trading at just 0.3c
The system accumulated 27,684 shares for $62.44
A few days later the position settled for $15,127
That's a 25,312% return from a market most traders never even noticed
He doesn't really operate a trading bot
He operates an entire trading desk made of AI agents
The tower got automated
Then he automated everything else
Connect wallet to this bot and automatically copy every trade: t.me/poly_parlay_bo…
kiosa@thegreatest_sv
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26-YEAR-OLD GIRL QUIT HER JOB AND BUILT A SMALL SOCIAL NETWORK FOR NYC CAFES. 31,000 USERS IN 4 MONTHS. NOW IT MAKES $18,400/MO FROM LOCAL SHOPS
she didn’t try to build another instagram. she built a tiny app for one obsessed niche: people who save cafes, share lists, follow local taste, and discover places before they go viral on tiktok
the product is simple. profiles, posts, likes, saved lists, search, comments, and a feed. that is basically every social network at the core. the hard part was never the idea. it was needing 5 engineers to make it work
claude code changes that. one person can now build auth, database, feed logic, profiles, follow system, storage, notifications, and deployment with supabase and vercel instead of hiring a full team
the money is not from ads. cafes pay $199/month to claim their page, boost new menu drops, see which lists saved them, and post local offers. power users pay $8/month for private maps and early city guides
most people still think social networks need millions of users. she proved the opposite. 10,000 people in one niche can be worth more than 100,000 random users scrolling for nothing
small social networks are the new local media businesses. claude code just made them cheap enough for one person to start one from a laptop
Shadow Nick@doublenickk
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pov: made $50k in a week for walking through Google Maps and realizing dentists from 2009 still have 2009 websites.
Asteri@Asteri_eth
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A STANFORD DROPOUT INSTALLED HERMES AGENT IN HIS BEDROOM AND MAKES $32,000 A MONTH SELLING REPORTS THAT USED TO COST CLIENTS $5,000 EACH
his name is marcus. he runs the whole thing from a desk in his parents house with a single mac mini and no employees
he started this as a side project. ran hermes against one fitness market research brief, delivered in 3 hours what a research team takes 2 weeks to produce. the client paid $4,000 and asked for 5 more
hermes writes its own skills after every job. by month 2 it had 47 saved workflows, every new client report finishes 40% faster than the last. marcus just sells, hermes does the work
a normal research firm charges $5,000 per report and takes a week. marcus charges $2,500 and delivers in a day. he has 13 clients on retainer and nets 96% margin
the box pulls $3 a month in electricity. no API fees, no claude bill, nothing leaves his machine. uber burned through $3.4 billion in AI budget in 4 months on the same kind of work
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leopardracer@leopardracer
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A DEVELOPER SPENT $170 ON CLAUDE IN 10 DAYS. THEN A $599 MAC MINI STARTED RUNNING AI LOCALLY FOR $3 A MONTH
a developer posted his claude code bill on reddit after spending $170 in 10 days building a SaaS. someone replied with a photo of a mac mini and one sentence: "haven't paid anthropic since."
developers using claude code, chatgpt pro, cursor and copilot are quietly spending $400-$500 every month on AI. that's over $5,000 a year before shipping a single product.
the mac mini m4 starts at $599 and costs roughly $3 a month to run. it handles qwen, deepseek and mistral locally without API bills or rate limits.
one developer moved most of his coding workflow to a local 14B model. another cut his monthly AI costs from $459 to around $23 while keeping one premium subscription.
apple reportedly struggled to keep mac minis in stock because developers started buying them as AI servers. $599 once feels very different from $459 every month.
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starmex@starmexxx
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@insomnia_vip @cyfrin ai security engineer for finding vulnerabilities plus a live attack environment before launch is a serious combination
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Over $4B has been stolen from crypto projects over the years
Most people immediately blame hackers
But in many cases the real issue was vulnerable smart contracts
Thats where @cyfrin comes in
Cyfrin is one of the largest blockchain security companies today
They audit smart contracts find vulnerabilities build security tools and help protect protocols securing more than $50B in value
What I like is that they do much more than just audits
They built:
-> Updraft - free Web3 courses for anyone looking to learn
-> Cygent - an AI security engineer for finding vulnerabilities
-> BattleChain - a place where researchers can attack contracts before launch
One bug can cost a protocol millions
Finding it before launch is a lot cheaper
Insomnia@insomnia_vip
The best way to truly understand any topic is to study it in depth Especially when the course is completely free Thats exactly what @CyfrinUpdraft offers right now You can learn all the key concepts nuances and mechanics from the ground up Everything is presented in a clear and engaging format And if this topic isnt enough there are plenty of other courses available on the platform Its never been easier to start learning something new
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THIS GUY USED OPUS 4.8 + KIMI K2.6 TO CUT HIS CODING BILL FROM $4,000 TO $700/MO. WITH KIMI RUNNING A 300-AGENT CODING FLOOR, HE STOPPED PAYING CLAUDE TO DO EVERYTHING
kimi does the cheap heavy lifting. it can spin up hundreds of agents, push through thousands of steps, write the rough code, expand files, draft tests and handle the repetitive work that burns the most tokens
opus 4.8 only comes in where the money is worth spending. first to plan the spec and define the rules, then again to tear apart the output, catch weak logic and flag the bugs that a fast swarm can miss
that is what changed the economics. kimi handled the bulk of the volume for a fraction of the price, while opus stayed in the loop as the architect and the reviewer instead of the full-time builder
most people still use one model for every step and wonder why their costs explode. this guy split the jobs properly. kimi runs wide and cheap. opus goes deep and skeptical. one builds fast, the other makes sure it should ship
the real edge is not finding one perfect model. it is knowing where expensive intelligence actually matters and where cheap parallel output is already enough. that is how a $4,000 workflow turns into a $700 system
shmidt@shmidtqq
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@leopardracer skipped the $3,000 bootcamp, opened claude code, went back to scrolling - office ran itself by end of day
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THIS IS WHAT A $150/HR AI FREELANCER’S SETUP LOOKS LIKE IN 2026
the developer skipped the $3,000 bootcamp and just opened claude code instead, gave michael the task and went back to scrolling, and by end of day dwight had handled research, jim had shipped the code, kevin processed the data and the whole office ran on its own while nobody touched the keyboard
what used to need a senior dev team and three weeks of back and forth now fits in one prompt and a pixel art office on your local machine
AI freelancers already earn 44% more per hour than everyone else and the gap keeps growing, the people winning aren’t the ones with certificates or cs degrees, they’re the ones who figured out how to run a team like this
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NeilXbt@neil_xbt
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