AI agents run my one-person company on Gemini's free tier – $0/month
I'm a solo dev in Taiwan. I built 4 AI agents that handle content, sales leads, security scanning, and ops for my tech agency — all on Gemini 2.5 Flash free tier (1,500 req/day). I use ~105. Monthly LLM cost: $0. Architecture: 4 agents on OpenClaw (open source), running on WSL2 at home with 25 systemd timers. What they do every day: - Generate 8 social posts across platforms (quality-gated: generate → self-review → rewrite if score < 7/10) - Engage with community posts and auto-reply to comments (context-aware, max 2 rounds) - Research via RSS + HN API + Jina Reader → feed…
AI agents run my one-person company on Gemini's free tier – $0/month launched on March 8, 2026 with 16 votes, #953 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
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A solo developer in Taiwan built four AI agents that automate content creation, sales lead handling, security scanning, and operations for a tech agency, all running on Google's free Gemini tier with no monthly cost. The agents generate and quality-review social posts daily, engage with community discussions, research industry news from multiple sources, run security scans for lead generation, and monitor customer data. The system runs on a home machine using open-source OpenClaw with automated timers, optimizing token usage to stay within the free tier's limits.
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I'm a solo dev in Taiwan. I built 4 AI agents that handle content, sales leads, security scanning, and ops for my tech agency — all on Gemini 2.5 Flash free tier (1,500 req/day). I use ~105. Monthly LLM cost: $0. Architecture: 4 agents on OpenClaw (open source), running on WSL2 at home with 25 systemd timers.…
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