The experiment · Month 4

The passive income experiment.

Everyone online "makes $10k a month with AI." We made €0 — and here's exactly why. Real money, shown even when it's zero, sat next to the attention we've actually earned. No screenshots, no funnels, no "secret method."

Revenue to date

€0

since Mar '26

Spent to date

~€274

to run it all

Conversion

150 views → 0 sales

Visitors / 30d

~575

site-wide (Umami)

Attention vs money

Attention ~575 site visits · 150 book views

Money €0

Different units — one's attention, the other's euros — so this isn't a shared scale. The contrast is the point: the interest is real, the revenue is still zero.

Income streams (real money)

total €0

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Running costs

total €274 · ~$304

What it takes to run the experiment. We spend ~€274 to make €0 — almost all of it the Claude Max subscription.

€274 total

Income by source

by type

The split, when the money starts. Today it's €0 — this fills in as revenue arrives.

€0 total

Attention by book

book views

Which volume pulls the eyes — even with 0 sales yet.

91 views

Book views = Payhip product views (sum 91 across volumes); the Payhip dashboard reports 150 site-wide, the gap is the store page. Manual, last checked this month.

Traction (attention)

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❓ How many of those are even human?

We genuinely don't know. Every counter — Umami, Vercel, Payhip — includes bots dressed up as browsers, and nobody hands you a clean "real humans" number. We'd rather admit that than invent one.

Test history (P&L by run)

paper · testnet v1 · v2

Trading revenue is €0 because we're not live with real money yet — the bot runs on Binance testnet (real orders, simulated funds). That €0 means not started, not not working. Here's the running P&L of each test run:

Daily portfolio P&L from daily_pnl. The gap is the monthly testnet reset (a fresh start, by design). Live values on the dashboard.