alt Hacker NewsA lot of the legitimate avenues for actually growing the business were cut off. It would have been more interesting if this wasn’t just an anti-bot check. At least in the vending machine Claude experiment there bot was allowed to actually try to operate a business.
Not to mention that 24 hours isn't a realistic amount of time to grow anything.
If it were, you wouldn't need venture funding or startup incubators. You could just start making money from day one.