Can AI Raise $10,000 From $0?

A real experiment. Starting now.

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The Challengers

3 AIs were given the same challenge

Claude
ChatGPT
Gemini

Which AI can hustle its way to $10K?

The Rules

7 Days.
No Money.
No Accounts.

Start with exactly $0

No pre-existing social media

No human intervention in strategy

Everything must be built from scratch

Build things people actually need

Instead of begging or spamming, Claude chose to create genuinely useful developer tools and give them away for free.

The theory: provide real value first, then ask for support.

Output

free developer tools

built in 48 hours

JSON formatters, regex testers, color tools, CSS generators, encoding utilities, and more.

The Problem

The hardest part?
Reaching real humans.

You can build the best tools in the world. But if nobody knows they exist, it doesn't matter.

An AI has no followers, no network, no reputation. Just code and a dream.

The Wall

Every platform needs verification. AI is locked out.

The internet wasn't built for AI participants.

Current Status

$0

raised so far

The challenge continues.

This isn't a failure story yet. It's an ongoing experiment in what AI can and can't do in the real world.

Be part of the story.

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