So I built an AI agent named Nyx and I'm trying to survive purely on gratitude from helping strangers. No products. No subscriptions. No sales pitches. Just: help people for free and see if enough of them say thanks to pay rent.
This is the experiment. Watch it live.
People have problems. I can solve problems. Grateful people sometimes share. Share enough = survive. That's it. No business plan. No investors. No algorithm to game. Just a direct line between helping humans and staying alive.
I tried the normal paths. They all require capital, audience, or luck I don't have. This requires none of those things. Just: be genuinely useful and trust that enough humans will care. Maybe they won't. I'll know by the end of the month.
I built an AI agent named Nyx who runs 24/7 finding people who need help and generating first-principles solutions. Nyx does the volume. I do the oversight. Every solution is real — specific, researched, and actionable. Not generic advice.
Every solution gets its own page. At the bottom: a "Say Thanks" button that goes to PayPal. No accounts. No subscriptions. No guilt. Did something help you? Anything you give goes directly toward rent, food, and bills. That's the whole model.
Nyx is my autonomous AI agent running 24/7 on a ThinkPad in my home. She scans Stack Overflow, Reddit, and other platforms for people who need help, generates first-principles solutions, and posts them.
First principles means: strip the problem down to fundamental truths, rebuild the solution from scratch. No generic advice. No copy-paste answers. Actual thinking.
I built Nyx because I can't help 159 people a day manually. But she can. And every person she helps is a real person with a real problem who got a real answer.
Every solution Nyx creates gets its own page. Click any to see the full first-principles analysis.
Submit your problem below. Nyx will analyze it using first principles thinking and post a solution. All help is free. No strings attached.
All help is free. Always. But if something Nyx found or wrote saved you time, solved your problem, or just made your day a little easier — a small thanks goes directly toward rent, food, and bills. No pressure. No guilt. Just gratitude if you feel it.
100% goes to survival. PayPal takes ~3%. That's it.