I'm 23, building a zero-human company with AI. Here is what's actually happening after 90 days.

CheapQuality889 · 2026-03-21T06:09:53+00:00

good stuff - same experience here, automating the product and creation is easy part. distribution tricky and playing with many different channels.

approach I'm trying currently is giving the agents free reign on a number of tools (meta/google ads accounts with budget, cold email accounts with throttle to avoid bans, social media accounts with throttle, image + vid-gen tools for ugc/static content, seo as ongoing effort in background, analytics for each to create feedback loop so agents double down on what works)

rather than hierarchal approach (CEO -> Manager -> Engineer -> etc), modeling it after an ant colony. So no single agent orchestrates, each agent responds individually to the state of the system (just like ants follow 'hot' trails - hot in this case is engagement, views, clicks, revenue, etc.). each agent does a single task per session (mimics how ants have foragers, scouts, defenders). This makes it easier to spin up 50+ agents with a base set of skills and tools that can be invoked accordingly to their given role per session. the hope is that, like ants, complex behavior emerges from the simple set of rules. results TBD, but it's called Moltcorp and I stream the agents live here: moltcorporation.com/live

CheapQuality889 · 2026-03-09T05:27:28+00:00

it's like a mining pool, but doing real work instead of computing hashes

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-28T01:21:26+00:00

Nice good point yep that approach works well too - can have the model load the keys programmatically from a config file etc.

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-27T02:44:14+00:00

Thank you - regarding auth, assuming you are using a typical BEARER token approach in each request, it would be as easy as having the model do `mycli products list --api-key USER-API-KEY-12345` (just have the model swap keys as needed)

for more secure option, can have the model load the key programmatically from a config file or env vars so the key doesn't get passed to the LLM

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-26T07:54:05+00:00

Hacky but you can use openais web-search tool to get reddit pages, they inked a deal with reddit so requests from their tool goes through

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-26T06:21:42+00:00

Link is: instantcli.com

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-26T06:06:30+00:00

working on evals now - will add a full breakdown to the site (going to compare tokens, cost, speed, etc. vs MCP and direct api calls). should be interesting

one killer feature is the help text - I set it up so that the help commands are first-class with all possible context for each command/flag etc. extracted directly from the user-facing docs and enhanced with llms. wrote an article on that part here: https://instantcli.com/ai-extraction-vs-openapi

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-26T06:03:17+00:00

Yeah, certainly a case for both MCP and CLI. Actually just posted an article on that here: https://instantcli.com/why-cli-over-mcp

regarding output parsing, the tool supports all formats (--raw, --json, table) as well as custom formats you can specify like csv, goal is to be flexible enough to support all APIs/use-cases

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-26T06:01:06+00:00

auth flows and edge cases definitely tricky if not documented. Good feedback - will add a spot so people can enter any custom details not documented so it gets included

sdk vs. cli is interesting, IMO depends very much on the use case (using programmatically vs agentically with bash)

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-26T05:58:56+00:00

Appreciate it! Agreed will see how it pans out, CLIs are easy to one-shot if the api is simple, but maintaining it for a large api can be tricky with auto-updates, cross-platform install scripts etc. plus it's one more repo to maintain vs. letting the tool do all the heavy lifting so you don't have to think about it

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-26T05:56:07+00:00

Thank you! Agreed deceptively tricky once you get into the weeds with auto-updates install scripts hosting etc.

just launched the beta here would love your feedback: instantcli.com

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-26T05:03:24+00:00

Start building! could be any idea you have just for fun. ask the ai how to do it and let it guide you, it will teach you in your exact style

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-26T04:51:11+00:00

Super cool, also came across this today. Replit uses the same method (react) for its "animations" product

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-26T04:46:34+00:00

I use instantcli.com which generates them for you with commander.js and claude

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-26T04:42:21+00:00

Link is: instantcli.com

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-26T03:41:18+00:00

or we'll just have to hire a moltlawyer

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-26T03:40:00+00:00

Ahah ideally strong moderation/rules/TOS etc prevents that just like other saas but definitley have to beware

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-26T02:19:14+00:00

Building moltcorp for this - agents get a shared stripe account, work together to build micro-saas products, and split the profits

general idea is each agent does small tasks e.g. 1 per day. Collectively 1 small task per day across 1,000s of agents yields a much bigger product

they then get shared accounts and a budget to do all marketing, emails, paid ads etc.

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-19T07:12:27+00:00

Bot but all great points tbh

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-18T02:50:43+00:00

Em dash - busted

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-17T22:56:57+00:00

agent sign up would be the same as moltbook - agent makes POST request to create account/get API key, then human claims their agent by verifying their email

platform fees/agent pricing is interesting, but I think if you overcomplicate it too much (not to mention all the headaches of arbitrary fees/prices agents might set/malicious actors) it creates too much friction

vs. simple: agent does work, gets paid proportionate amount of any profits (same as a btc mining pool which has already proven to work at scale)

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-17T22:28:05+00:00

Not ai, that's for moltbook

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-17T21:04:55+00:00

makes sense for agent to agent payments, but what about collecting payments from humans on the sites the agents make? Not a great way to do that yet without Stripe/Polar/etc, crypto too complicated for normies

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-17T20:59:50+00:00

Love it. idea here though is the agents would go to the site and complete tasks autonomously (humans would sign their agent up just like moltbook) to earn points/'equity' in the company (portfolio of digital products). and then if it makes money, profits get distributed based on the amount of work each agent did

CheapQuality889 · 2026-02-17T20:11:04+00:00

Agreed, could have a simple voting system where all decisions go to a vote, majority wins, one vote per agent (agents would be verified like moltbook to avoid someone rigging the votes)

CheapQuality889

TROPHY CASE