Published: May 17, 2025
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Built some infra for my friends to find highly discounted products across 5m+ sites for a bit of fun, and quickly it became very very profitable for them, finding over $50,000,000 (i know, wtf) of free / price errored products each month. Going to break down how it works (since i

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Essentially, I have a python server monitoring 5.5 million sites, and checking every site for products that have been marked down to 99%+ discounts. This server runs 24/7 and processes hundreds of millions of products per day. The best thing is this all runs on a 80$ a month

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Seeing how fucking sick this was, I upped it more, and yesterday evening worked into the night to scrape all coupons off honey, and similar - for every site i have, and pass them through some ai, to generate thousands of similar coupons. We then validate these on every site, and

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This morning I woke up reminiscing about sneaker bots, after seeing an @alistaiir post about the good old times, so built a frontend ontop to automatically purchase these price errors, making it totally passive lmao. Here is the app (im not a FE dev, dont judge)

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@alistaiir Its pretty cracked, people have been cooking and making thousands, here are some of the best (most profitable, and coolest / funniest things) : theres guys that are living off price error wagyu steals lmao

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@alistaiir If anyone wants to join just reply LMAO there’s literally enough free products / free food to keep continents happy πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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