Set up Claude to run a digital product business while I sleep
30 days later: $847 in passive sales, I touched it twice
What I built in one Saturday afternoon (4 hours):
- a Claude agent that researches Notion template gaps every Sunday at 9am
- picks the strongest opportunity from the research
- generates the template, the cover image, and the Gumroad listing copy
- uploads to Gumroad via their API
- schedules one launch tweet via Postiz
- logs everything to a Notion database
What runs fully autonomously (every Sunday):
- trend research
- template creation
- cover image generation
- listing upload
- launch tweet
What I did during the 30 days:
- checked in twice to make sure nothing broke
- one template got flagged for review, cleared it in 5 minutes
- otherwise: nothing
Results after 30 days:
- 4 new templates live on Gumroad
- 23 total sales across them
- $847 in revenue
- best seller: an AI Engineering Sprint Tracker ($14, sold 6 times)
- worst seller: 0 sales, 2 refunds, killed the listing
[ How you can do the same with any digital product ]:
1. pick a marketplace with an API: Gumroad, Lemonsqueezy, Sellfy (Etsy still doesn't have one)
2. pick a niche you understand: Notion, design assets, prompt packs, Claude skills
3. write the Claude agent: research, generate, list, post
4. host the schedule on Replit, Vercel cron, or a tiny VPS
5. approve nothing daily, check in weekly
you shouldn't repeat my approach
I just decided to share with you what I could do as side hustle while building 3 others products now
it's appliable to all digital products
find the idea, great marketplace where you can sell this, complete idea with Claude and sell it
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