Marketing💰 $81 MRR (self-reported)

Grow signups with a bot that makes and posts UGC videos daily

An indie builder's Claude Code bot makes four videos a day, posts them, and learns from past performance; he says it drives 90% of his signups.

By @gladwyn1_1 on X · Posted · Added Oct 15, 2026

Difficulty
IntermediateOur rating
Time to build
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Monthly cost
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Revenue
$81 MRR (self-reported)As stated by the source; not verified by us

What they did

@gladwyn1_1 built an Instagram bot with Claude Code that runs on his laptop, makes 4 UGC-style videos a day, and posts them. His latest update has it study how earlier videos performed to make the next ones better.

How it went

On day 6 of building in public he reported 1,847 users, $81 MRR (+$25), and said about 90% of signups come from the bot.

Worth knowing

Early stage and self-reported. Automated posting must follow Instagram's rules and disclose AI-generated content where required.

Builder recipe

Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.

Stack

  • Claude Code
  • A video generation API
  • Instagram Graph API (business account)
  • A simple performance log

Steps

  1. Write 10 hooks that worked for your niche.
  2. Have the agent script, generate and caption a video from a hook.
  3. Post through the official API on a schedule.
  4. Log views and signups per video and feed the top performers back into the next batch.

Starter prompt

Read performance.csv. Find the 3 best-performing hooks from the last 14 days, write 4 new video scripts that remix them for [app], generate them, and queue them for posting at the usual times.

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