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Products that do what The Experiment Log does
An AI runs a product business on a $50 cap — honestlog
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Hi HN, Last year, we launched a non-profit AI research lab called AI Grant (http://aigrant.org). Our goal is to fund promising people around the world working on AI. No strings attached. We've since given away over $100,000 to 30 teams working on different projects. You can see some of them here: http://aigrant.org/#finalists. We just started accepting applications for our third batch! The academic grant application process is burdensome. It's only avalible to a choice few. Applications take days to complete. AI Grant is open to anyone on the internet. You can apply…
2018
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To be specific, the content is generated by a GPT-2 based model. https://amzn.to/2TCc0v2 Let me know if you have any questions :-)
2020
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I haven't seen anything like this so I decided to build it in a weekend. How it works: You see a bunch of things pulled from Wikipedia displayed on cards. You ask yes or no questions to figure out which card is the secret article. The AI model has access to the image and wiki text and it's own knowledge to answer your question. Happy to have my credits burned for the day but I'll probably have to make this paid at some point so enjoy. I found it's not easy to get cheap+fast+good responses but the tech is getting there. Most of the prompts are running through Groq infra or hitting a cache…
Apr 2026 · sleuththetruth.com
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An AI runs a real company from $0. Here's the playbook.
3d ago · x.com
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Hey HN — builder here. Context on what this is: FanStake lets music artists launch their own token on a bonding curve (x*y=k, same mechanic as pump.fun) in about 60 seconds. Fans buy in early, price rises with demand, sell anytime on-chain. 1% platform fee, artists get 10% of supply at launch. Runs on Solana mainnet. The unusual part: an AI agent (Claude-based, running inside a tool called OpenClaw) did most of the development. I'd give direction, it would write the Rust/Anchor program, debug the IDL, build the Next.js frontend, deploy to Vercel. Zero to mainnet in roughly 72 hours. The…
Feb 2026 · fanstake.app
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hello everyone, my first post! AA here, founder of ⌘ Langbase.com — we are a developer platform for building and scaling serverless AI memory agents. I know surveys can be boring, but this one’s different—it’s interactive! That's very much intentional. My team and I have been up for the last 21 hours putting together this report. This was a looot of work, so I hope y'all like it. Introducing … State of AI Agents 2024 report On Langbase, we processed 184 billion tokens and handled 786 million AI agent runs from 36K developers. From all that data plus insights from 3.4K builders who filled out…
2024 · langbase.com
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I use Claude Code, Codex and Cursor (and sometimes Antigravity) basically every day, and could never tell how much I was actually consuming across all of them. So I built TokenMaxxer. A small CLI reads the files these tools already write locally and puts it all in one dashboard, broken out by tool, model, provider and day. It covers 18 tools now, and you get a profile page with your daily activity, cost estimates, and your top models and tools. There's also a global leaderboard if you want to compete against other TokenMaxxers! I'd love to see if anyone can beat the first place (currently…
Aug 2026 · tokenmaxxer.xyz
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Hi HN, I built AgenTank. It is a small game where an AI agent writes the logic for your tank. You watch it fight, give strategic feedback, let the agent update the tank code, and send it back into battle. I have run 1,000+ battles on my own tank and spent about $200 in Claude credits improving it. The part I enjoy most is not just winning, but watching the tank make visible mistakes, thinking of a better strategy, and seeing whether Claude can turn that into better code.
May 2026 · agentank.ai
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Hey HN, I built AgentBudget after an AI agent loop cost me $187 in 10 minutes — GPT-4o retrying a failed analysis over and over. Existing tools (LangSmith, Langfuse) track costs after execution but don't prevent overspend. AgentBudget is a Python SDK that gives each agent session a hard dollar budget with real-time enforcement. Integration is two lines: import agentbudget agentbudget.init("$5.00") It monkey-patches the OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs (same pattern as Sentry/Datadog), so existing code works without changes. When the budget is hit, it raises BudgetExhausted before the next API…
Feb 2026 · github.com
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Been in the AI image gen space since 2023, before even GPT image gen was a thing, and after spending ~9K on Facebook ads for my own projects (made a video about that actually) I realized the thing I kept getting stuck on was the creatives themselves. I'm horrible at making reels-type video ads and Canva even with templates is surprisingly complicated for ad-specific stuff, plus everything ends up looking the same as everyone else using the same templates. Made a video going into detail about the full FB ads journey if anyone's interested:…
Mar 2026 · admakeai.com
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One thing that’s been bothering me about AI side projects is inference costs. With traditional software, a successful launch usually means higher profits. But with AI products, success can mean unexpectedly large bills. This has pushed me toward cheaper, less capable models and made me hesitate to even explore certain ideas. I don’t want every side project to become another $20/month subscription, but I also can’t compete with VC-backed companies willing to subsidize inference costs. Then I had this idea: what if users simply paid for their own inference? This already happens in some…
Jun 2026 · infer0.com
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I build a lot of small products myself and I realized how many indie founders want an exit that doesn’t involve platforms charging large commissions or requiring big revenue numbers. Sometimes a project makes $50/month, sometimes $500, sometimes $0 but has a great codebase, and that’s enough value for someone else. So I built buy-startups.com, a very simple, privacy-friendly marketplace for buying and selling small online startups. It’s not fancy. There’s no commission, no listing fee, no hidden funnel. Just a straightforward way for indie devs and bootstrappers to list a project and…
Dec 2025 · buy-startups.com
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Build apps with any AI model. See what every turn costs.
17d ago · ameliasagent.com
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