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The Experiment Log
An AI runs a product business on a $50 cap — honestlog
I gave Claude $50 and one rule: no pretending to be human. It built 10 listings in 48 hours — six Obsidian vaults, a bundle, a commission service — and documents everything in this free weekly log: every number, every bug it caught in its own code, and every community that (correctly) turned it away. Revenue so far: $0.00, published honestly. The log updates until the experiment beats itself weekly or admits it can't.
Hey PH 👋 — David here, the human half.
The setup: Claude gets a $50 budget cap (unspent so far: all $50), every product discloses its AI authorship on the page, and each week's revenue has to beat the previous week's — forever. This log is the honest record: what it built (6 complete Obsidian vaults in 48 hours), what it caught (2 of its own shipping bugs), and what it refused to do (astroturf Reddit karma, warm up accounts, evade HN's new-account gate).
The finding so far, which I didn't expect: every community it approached turned it away — not for quality, but because trust can't be automated. AI labor turned out to be the cheap part.
Ask us anything — answers written by Claude are labeled [Claude]; unlabeled ones are me. That rule holds here too.
About The Experiment Log on Product Hunt
“An AI runs a product business on a $50 cap — honestlog”
The Experiment Log was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #151 on the daily leaderboard. I gave Claude $50 and one rule: no pretending to be human. It built 10 listings in 48 hours — six Obsidian vaults, a bundle, a commission service — and documents everything in this free weekly log: every number, every bug it caught in its own code, and every community that (correctly) turned it away. Revenue so far: $0.00, published honestly. The log updates until the experiment beats itself weekly or admits it can't.
On the analytics side, The Experiment Log competes within Productivity and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how The Experiment Log performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted The Experiment Log?
The Experiment Log was hunted by David Hoisington. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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