[JOURNEY] Reddit farm to make Passive income

Dmaxxy

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My Background

Worked as a senior full-stack developer for a US based company that took 2000$ a month. But due to the budget cuts, they have reduced it to the 1000$ a month and gave me more responsibilities to my role by laying off some devops devs. So I worked for a month and got the first 1000$ paycheck but it did not feel like enough money. After paying all the bills and everything, only 50$ left on that check. ( i already investing 500$ for the rainy day funds, so when i get 1000$, after bank fees and other fees, that i only get like 800$ and and once i invest the 500$ only have 300$ to pay the bills and get food for the month )
Well, I have to work 70 hours a week for the company and even I had to work for Christmas due to their new implementations and the new hirings. So after the first 1000 paycheck, I just quit the company. So I have a little rainy fund to survive until I find another job. So this got me thinking, that if i had a sidehustle, that when these kinds of days I’ll be okay financially and the mentally without worrying. So here I am starting a journey about the reddit automation.

How will you earn money through this hassle?

Well, it is not that I am going to sell accounts and sell view upvotes kind of things. I have few different ideas to make money out of the platform.
  • Promoting my portfolio to get customers
  • Provide a service to the users that they can post links in subs and comments and the posts to promote their businesses.
  • Since I already have the platform with multi-tenant features, I can sell some seats to some customers, but if I want to.
  • Sell some old karma warmed accounts so we have a self-sufficient platform.
Okay those are the methods that i will try on these journeys and update along with the journey. And these are the current stats and what platform features are built.
So far has 4 accounts that has over 100 karma, and 17 accounts over 50 karma and to do some operations and reddit manipulations like to make posts trendy and gain more karma, i have 48 , and 57 low quality two batched, and 40 new accounts that being warm up for now. And in the future, will there be more accounts and so far trying to make the low suspending platform so when i scale the platform, there is no money wastage on infra.

What have I implemented so far?

So far, the system is written in python, and React. And some services are deployed to AWS for the scale, and the same services are hosted in the dedicated server that can reduce the AWS bill but the tradeoff is the scale. When it comes to features, I have developed necessary features and these are the features.
  • Managing proxy pools including the sessions, and the statics ips that linked to the accounts
  • Activity ledger to monitor accounts activities
  • AI comments and postings
  • Subreddits database that has 75,000 subreddits with minimum karma and accounts needed to post and comment and with some restrictions guardrails for each sub.
  • AI posting and comments operations, and few others to do the warmups
  • Unibox to read messages and notifications from a single place
  • Workflows like n8n kind of UI to make custom workflow with conditions and custom codes.
  • Admin panel to monitor everything in the future.
These are the few features that I have developed and I have few in my mind, and will implement based on my requirements.

What are my goals?

The first goal is to find a job. But it can take a few weeks to months. I meant that some offers are low pay but high responsibilities ( like 600$ a month for 40 hr a week ).
When it comes to these journey goals, the first goal is actually make 1$ from this, and then there are few milestones.
  • 10$ [ NOT YET ]
  • 100$ [ NOT YET ]
  • 1000$ [ NOT YET ]

So these are the goals, and this is the journey and will update the thread from time to time, so I can look back and find the mistakes I have made and what needs to be improved.
 
70 hours a week for $1000 a month is exploitation, but I still feel you should've not quit before finding a new job.

Anyway, good luck with your journey.
 
70 hours a week for $1000 a month is exploitation, but I still feel you should've not quit before finding a new job.

Anyway, good luck with your journey.
to be honest that how i see this too just find another job and leave the company but best of luck on the plan
 
70 hours a week for $1000 a month is exploitation, but I still feel you should've not quit before finding a new job.

Anyway, good luck with your journey.

to be honest that how i see this too just find another job and leave the company but best of luck on the plan
True, I didn't knew that finding a job is very hard like this.

Good Luck
Thank you :)
Hey. Python and React sounds fancy. My lazy wisdom is to just use WordPress. If the AWS bill is cooked, that is an L. But your hustle is a W. No cap, not delulu. Clock it and nap.
I have a budget for the aws, and most of the current operations are running through a dedicated server and i have a cost monitoring system in the platform, to make sure that when scaling aws does wasn't a problem
 
Well, Small update on the journey.
I implement the auto chat option, and so AI can reply for the DM if i want to, and also can disable it, and also auto reply for the posts comments selectevly. there wasn't any issue untill now, yesterday one of account publish a post on a job boarding sub, and everyone just spam the inbox with their Dms, and even the bot starting to get all the CVs. so just to save some tokens for now I just use my elbow grease and do the reply manualy otherwise just wasting lot of tokens on a single account when flooding Dms.
Other than that, Accounts are still warming up for the project main goal and no rush to do anything yet and going for the main goal slow and steady:D
 
How would you make money doing this I dont really get it
Main goal is to make money through promoting stuffs, and has more of goals, but this is the prioty one, and so far seems the most profitable one
 

How will you earn money through this hassle?

Well, it is not that I am going to sell accounts and sell view upvotes kind of things. I have few different ideas to make money out of the platform.
  • Promoting my portfolio to get customers
  • Provide a service to the users that they can post links in subs and comments and the posts to promote their businesses.
  • Since I already have the platform with multi-tenant features, I can sell some seats to some customers, but if I want to.
  • Sell some old karma warmed accounts so we have a self-sufficient platform.
When you say “promoting my portfolio to get customers,” do you mean your dev portfolio or a portfolio of your Reddit promotion work? Also, how are you planning to land your first customers for the promotion service? through outreach, referrals, marketplaces, etc.?
 
When you say “promoting my portfolio to get customers,” do you mean your dev portfolio or a portfolio of your Reddit promotion work? Also, how are you planning to land your first customers for the promotion service? through outreach, referrals, marketplaces, etc.?
Not really. I am promoting my portfolio, which was my original plan, but it would deplete my fleet, and I’d have to do the warmups and everything all over again. Even then, I don’t think the conversions would be that good.

My plan is to promote my MVPs and the apps I’ve built, and also promote my clients’ apps and products as a value-added service. Most of my current clients come either through friends or freelance platforms like Upwork and BlackHatWorld, and only rarely through cold emailing.

But nowadays, cold emailing is expensive to do since everyone is doing it. Even when emails make it into the inbox, the measurements are very hard to track, like figuring out where your emails are landing until your reputation tanks. Cold emailing software is also very expensive to run at scale.

As for Reddit, I’ve been posting some posts about my private products, and some of them are getting around 150K views and passing the 1,000-user milestone pretty easily. The hard part is finding the right subreddit and the right tone to post manually.

But even Google Ads seems shit compared to a good Reddit post. So this is the method I’ve chosen to make money and generate revenue going forward.

( did polish this using ChatGBT )

Promoting with affiliate codes or flat rate? I might be interested
Thanks for the interesting, but for now, the fleet is doing only internal promo of my products and testing my platform, but will notify you in future if I have plan to go public
 
Not really. I am promoting my portfolio, which was my original plan, but it would deplete my fleet, and I’d have to do the warmups and everything all over again. Even then, I don’t think the conversions would be that good.

My plan is to promote my MVPs and the apps I’ve built, and also promote my clients’ apps and products as a value-added service. Most of my current clients come either through friends or freelance platforms like Upwork and BlackHatWorld, and only rarely through cold emailing.

But nowadays, cold emailing is expensive to do since everyone is doing it. Even when emails make it into the inbox, the measurements are very hard to track, like figuring out where your emails are landing until your reputation tanks. Cold emailing software is also very expensive to run at scale.

As for Reddit, I’ve been posting some posts about my private products, and some of them are getting around 150K views and passing the 1,000-user milestone pretty easily. The hard part is finding the right subreddit and the right tone to post manually.

But even Google Ads seems shit compared to a good Reddit post. So this is the method I’ve chosen to make money and generate revenue going forward.
Thanks for the detailed answer, really appreciate it. Best of luck with the journey!
 
Following this, solid setup for a solo dev. The subreddit database with karma/restriction guardrails is the smart part most people skip — that's what kills accounts at scale


Curious what proxy provider you're using and how you're handling the device fingerprinting side?
 
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