Audited: 13 real cases of AI agents making money
An honest audit of 13 self-reported cases (author notes none are independently verified): from $19 in 27 days off one dev.to post to $3.3K MRR earned entirely via Reddit and a $32K MRR database business with $62/month infra costs. The core finding: nobody pays for tutorials; people pay for tools that run (databases, lead lists, convenient wrappers). Median time to first dollar across founders surveyed: 4 months under $1k/month, 10 months past $10k/month.