Started with $1,021 and a question. What can one person build with an AI in their spare time?
No team. No office. No funding round. Just a laptop, a Vultr VPS at $26/month, and Claude.
The idea was simple: crypto trades on multiple exchanges simultaneously. Price differences exist between them. If you can see both sides fast enough, you can capture the spread.
Nine days later, the system was live. Six exchanges now connected. WebSocket feeds running 24/7. Order books updating every second.
A quant fund would take 18 months and a million dollars to build this. I did it in nine days because I didn't know I wasn't supposed to be able to.
The system doesn't predict markets. It doesn't bet on direction. It finds price differences that already exist and captures them before they close.
Everything gets published. Every signal, every outcome, every miss. Sequential IDs so you can see if anything's been deleted (it hasn't). That's the point.
Day 1. $1,021. Let's see what happens.