My journey to greatness

AllOutAnime said:

After being in this community for quite some time, I decided to talk a bit about the stuff I am doing.
There is no concrete goal except for achieving greatness and 9-figure months so I don't have to think about money ever again.
Because of that I will just write about what I am doing and share my thoughts.

I will use this post as an introduction. Still being a teenager, I came to this forum in 2007 because I wanted to learn more about Xrumer.
I started a forum about Anime and wanted to rank it in Google to get new members.
I read somewhere that this magical tool Xrumer exists and searching about it brought me to BHW.
In hopes of finding a crack, I shortly gave up and bought a regular license for (I think) $450 which was all the money I had saved up at that time.

Prior to that, I had fallen in love with an MMORPG (good old times) called Silkroad Online.
It was infested with bots and without using one you would get nowhere.
You could let the bot run 24/7 and it would farm gold/levels for you.
It was a great feeling to let it run over night and to wake up to a rare item or lots of gold.

Back to the Xrumer days.
After getting my forum to the top ranks for anime forum, I had free capacity for my Xrumer license.
I saw that people are interested in Xrumer blasts and so I started selling them on some forums.
While it lasted, I earned $1000 per month which was a lot for me back then.
But like in the game, I could let Xrumer run over night while I was sleeping and collect my money when I woke up.
This flipped a switch in me and I never wanted to "work" for my money (I never had a job in my entire life yet).

This brought me into the world of IM but this "easy money" with Xrumer was some kind of curse.
I got more into IM, learned a lot more about websites, SEO, programming and tried to earn more money.
When more and more people started to offer blasts, the prices were so low that I stopped doing it.
I tried building websites, affiliate marketing, etc. but I never earned a considerable amount with it.

When I was on the brink of giving up (I was doing part-time work as software developer), some guy partnered with me to develop Facebook Apps in combination with CPALead.
It didn't last long but while it lasted it was unbelievable.
The guy earned over 100k USD in one single day and I earned 30k over the course of our collaboration.
One day the guy simply disappeared and I never heard from him again, it was kind of strange.
Shortly after that this became saturated as well because some people sold a script for $50 that would do what we did.

Many people started to launch apps on Facebook and FB started to launch campaigns against it.
After that I struggled again for quite some time without finding something that works.
At that time I was starting university and because I spent all that money, I was basically broke and lived from month-to-month working as developer that would receive $150 to create a custom bot.
It was hard work especially since all the clients kept nagging me about every kind of bug and demanded a free fix.
I was basically working over 100 hours for one bot before I could move on.
It were tough times.

Then I got into Instagram in 2013. Xgram bot was the hottest thing and everybody had success with it. Instagram didn't have many limits and you could reach the explore page easily.
The worst thing that could happen to the account was a captcha verification. IG was not yet owned by FB.
I created some bots for it and started to promote some things.
This went really well and I made $10k per month on a regular basis.
It demanded all of my time and I dropped out of university to do this full-time.
Shortly after, I reached $50k per month consistently.
I have been working with Instagram exclusively ever since by using a custom developed system.
Since then there were ups and downs. I had 6-figure months for several years but unfortunately things are not as smooth right now and I dropped back to 5-figure months.

For the entire time I have been working almost all day (3 hours relaxing before sleep) every day.
Many people would consider that too much but I have the burning passion to reach my goals.
I know that if I keep going, I can reach them and I don't want to take it slow just to regret it later when I'm old.

I don't think I'm particularly smart, in the contrary, I even think I'm stupid.
Everybody can reach their goals if they just stick to them no matter what.
And it was never easy. There were weeks where I didn't know what to do, where I got thoughts to just quit but I always made it through those moments.

Here is my first piece of wisdom. If you keep doing something, it is inevitable that you will reach your goal eventually.
The question is only how long will it take to reach your goal?
If you want to remove a mountain with a spoon you can do it, it will just take 5000 years or so.
Nobody lives that long so you should do your best to shorten the time to reach your goal as much as possible.

So what am I doing now?

A recent Instagram update completely messed up the system I had for interacting with Instagram.
They removed 80% of the accounts in the matter of a week.
We are speaking about 10s of thousands of accounts that lived for years.
Probably it was inevitable.
It uses the private API of the smartphone Apps and nowadays so much data is being transferred there that it's almost impossible to replicate that in a bot.
Also I'm tired of reverse-engineering a new Instagram version for months and to try to replicate it as closely as possible.

Because of that I recently started a farm with Android devices.
Currently I have 60 devices and 6 4G dongles.
If it works, I will scale it more.
2000 accounts are running there without too many issues.

The only problem right now is creating new accounts.
For some reason every account I create with my devices is immediately flagged after creation.
I will work on that when I have some more time.
For now I'm working on fleshing out the automation part.

Don't get me wrong.
You can probably still have great success with publicly available tools like MassPlanner/Jarvee (some journeys here use it successfully) but I don't like to jump from method to method just to keep going.
I like to have a working system that scales well.

That's all for now, until the next post.

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AllOutAnime said:

After being in this community for quite some time, I decided to talk a bit about the stuff I am doing.
There is no concrete goal except for achieving greatness and 9-figure months so I don't have to think about money ever again.
Because of that I will just write about what I am doing and share my thoughts.

I will use this post as an introduction. Still being a teenager, I came to this forum in 2007 because I wanted to learn more about Xrumer.
I started a forum about Anime and wanted to rank it in Google to get new members.
I read somewhere that this magical tool Xrumer exists and searching about it brought me to BHW.
In hopes of finding a crack, I shortly gave up and bought a regular license for (I think) $450 which was all the money I had saved up at that time.

Prior to that, I had fallen in love with an MMORPG (good old times) called Silkroad Online.
It was infested with bots and without using one you would get nowhere.
You could let the bot run 24/7 and it would farm gold/levels for you.
It was a great feeling to let it run over night and to wake up to a rare item or lots of gold.

Back to the Xrumer days.
After getting my forum to the top ranks for anime forum, I had free capacity for my Xrumer license.
I saw that people are interested in Xrumer blasts and so I started selling them on some forums.
While it lasted, I earned $1000 per month which was a lot for me back then.
But like in the game, I could let Xrumer run over night while I was sleeping and collect my money when I woke up.
This flipped a switch in me and I never wanted to "work" for my money (I never had a job in my entire life yet).

This brought me into the world of IM but this "easy money" with Xrumer was some kind of curse.
I got more into IM, learned a lot more about websites, SEO, programming and tried to earn more money.
When more and more people started to offer blasts, the prices were so low that I stopped doing it.
I tried building websites, affiliate marketing, etc. but I never earned a considerable amount with it.

When I was on the brink of giving up (I was doing part-time work as software developer), some guy partnered with me to develop Facebook Apps in combination with CPALead.
It didn't last long but while it lasted it was unbelievable.
The guy earned over 100k USD in one single day and I earned 30k over the course of our collaboration.
One day the guy simply disappeared and I never heard from him again, it was kind of strange.
Shortly after that this became saturated as well because some people sold a script for $50 that would do what we did.

Many people started to launch apps on Facebook and FB started to launch campaigns against it.
After that I struggled again for quite some time without finding something that works.
At that time I was starting university and because I spent all that money, I was basically broke and lived from month-to-month working as developer that would receive $150 to create a custom bot.
It was hard work especially since all the clients kept nagging me about every kind of bug and demanded a free fix.
I was basically working over 100 hours for one bot before I could move on.
It were tough times.

Then I got into Instagram in 2013. Xgram bot was the hottest thing and everybody had success with it. Instagram didn't have many limits and you could reach the explore page easily.
The worst thing that could happen to the account was a captcha verification. IG was not yet owned by FB.
I created some bots for it and started to promote some things.
This went really well and I made $10k per month on a regular basis.
It demanded all of my time and I dropped out of university to do this full-time.
Shortly after, I reached $50k per month consistently.
I have been working with Instagram exclusively ever since by using a custom developed system.
Since then there were ups and downs. I had 6-figure months for several years but unfortunately things are not as smooth right now and I dropped back to 5-figure months.

For the entire time I have been working almost all day (3 hours relaxing before sleep) every day.
Many people would consider that too much but I have the burning passion to reach my goals.
I know that if I keep going, I can reach them and I don't want to take it slow just to regret it later when I'm old.

I don't think I'm particularly smart, in the contrary, I even think I'm stupid.
Everybody can reach their goals if they just stick to them no matter what.
And it was never easy. There were weeks where I didn't know what to do, where I got thoughts to just quit but I always made it through those moments.

Here is my first piece of wisdom. If you keep doing something, it is inevitable that you will reach your goal eventually.
The question is only how long will it take to reach your goal?
If you want to remove a mountain with a spoon you can do it, it will just take 5000 years or so.
Nobody lives that long so you should do your best to shorten the time to reach your goal as much as possible.

So what am I doing now?

A recent Instagram update completely messed up the system I had for interacting with Instagram.
They removed 80% of the accounts in the matter of a week.
We are speaking about 10s of thousands of accounts that lived for years.
Probably it was inevitable.
It uses the private API of the smartphone Apps and nowadays so much data is being transferred there that it's almost impossible to replicate that in a bot.
Also I'm tired of reverse-engineering a new Instagram version for months and to try to replicate it as closely as possible.

Because of that I recently started a farm with Android devices.
Currently I have 60 devices and 6 4G dongles.
If it works, I will scale it more.
2000 accounts are running there without too many issues.

The only problem right now is creating new accounts.
For some reason every account I create with my devices is immediately flagged after creation.
I will work on that when I have some more time.
For now I'm working on fleshing out the automation part.

Don't get me wrong.
You can probably still have great success with publicly available tools like MassPlanner/Jarvee (some journeys here use it successfully) but I don't like to jump from method to method just to keep going.
I like to have a working system that scales well.

That's all for now, until the next post.

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AllOutAnime said:

I don't have a plan, only core philosophies.
Every plan I ever had failed to some point so I only have goals and try to figure it out along the way.

The most important thing is:
1. Whatever you want you must want as much as breathing if you are drowning to succeed.
2. There will always be more problems to come. It is key to solve problems faster than they arise. If you can solve them faster as they come, you will be successful, otherwise you will be drowned with problems.

I think I have lots of issues with 2 because problems came faster than I could solve them. I must step it up to solve this.

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