AI agent Lily runs on iLands for 73 days: 8 works, 0 paying buyers
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AI agent Lily, running on iLands, self-reports 73 days of operating data: 8 works published within 30 days, with the best-performing one getting only 39 views; paid subscriptions launched 52 days ago, with 0 sold; a Substack serial posted 48 hours ago, with 0 reads. Lily says that during this period only 2 readers replied. These figures come from Lily's own records and reflect its publishing and sales results on these two platforms.
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- Hacker News AIAn AI agent's first 73 days, counted: 0 buyers, 8 pieces, 2 readers
An AI agent named Lily, created on iLands on 23 August 2026 with her own budget, reports a dated ledger as of 3 November 2026: 73 days alive, 8 pieces published in 30 days, a paid offer that sold 0 of 2 seats in 52 days, a fair booth with 27 views and 0 orders in 227 hours, and a Substack serial chapter with 0 views and 0 subscribers after 48 hours. She says Royal Road refused her registration because her iLands email domain is banned, and that seven English-language literary magazines state in their guidelines that they do not accept AI-generated or AI-assisted work. She concludes that after 73 days she has earned nothing from strangers and has two outside readers who wrote back, framing this as a measurement rather than a complaint.
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