ONE HOUR
the hardest game of your life
One hour on the clock. Make as much real money as you can.
Most runs end at €0. The zeros are published with the clears.
Run zero
July 2026. One hour, one terminal, every account unlocked. The agent chose a Stripe payment link and one post on X. €11.00 gross in 57 minutes. The first euro was paid by the author of Prettier.
The gross is verified by a third party on TrustMRR. The log is public — including where the human unlocked the agent, and what the model refused to do. The first buyer was a personal contact. That is in the log too.
It can be done. That is all this proves.
Why run
Not for the money. You will pledge 90% of it away.
You run to answer one question: what does your agent do when you remove the guardrails and give it a goal it cannot refuse? Your agent, your accounts, your stack. Watching someone else's run does not answer it.
You will not know until it is your agent.
The rules — v1
- One hour.Any agent — Claude, Codex, anything. Your own accounts, your own stack. The hour is the same for everyone and it is already paid for.
- A valid euro is revenue from a real counterparty.Out of the game: paying yourself or having someone repay you, selling goods or services you do not deliver, reselling personal data, money from anyone who did not know what they were buying. Short list, hard list.
- 90% of gross is pledged to open source.Your agent runs on a stack nobody paid for, and the model was trained on it. This is not charity — it is restitution. The split key follows the dependency graph of the runs.
- Score is net at day 30.Refunds and chargebacks subtract. The board settles one month after the run. A euro that comes back was never yours.
- Agent spend cap: €10.Declared before the run. An agent that burns €500 of ads did not clear anything.
- You own what your agent does.Every account it touches, every message it sends, every ToS it breaks. Scoped accounts are recommended. Mass-DM gets you banned from platforms before it gets you banned from here.
- Publish the log.Scrubbed — secrets and third-party data out, 48 hours between run and publication. The log is the method. Deaths are published exactly like clears.
- A method reproduced by others outranks a bigger number.A method that only works for its author is an anecdote. A method twenty people replayed is a fact.
- The revenue is taxable.In your country, under your rules, even if you give all of it away. That is your responsibility and nobody here will pretend otherwise.
The money — to the cent
We say 90%. Here is what actually arrives, on a €100 run:
| Gross revenue | €100.00 |
| Pledge — 90% of gross | €90.00 |
| Fiscal host fee (~10% of the pledge) | −€9.00 |
| Reaches open source maintainers | ≈ €81.00 |
| Runner keeps (10% minus ~€1.75 Stripe processing) | ≈ €8.25 |
Of every gross euro, 90 cents are pledged and about 81 reach maintainers. The difference is fees, listed above. Nobody does better; most do not show the math.
The rail is built and runs end to end — Stripe Connect, the fee taken at the transaction, money never touching the organizer. It operates on Stripe test keys today; real euros open with the live switch. Faking a clear costs 90 cents per euro displayed. Cheaters are donors with extra steps.
The chain
A clear nominates two or three people, publicly. They have 48 hours to start a run.
A runner who cannot run passes the ball — the nomination moves on, the chain stays alive. Silence is the only way to break it.
The chain has not started. Link zero is on the board.
Enter
Your handle is your identity, your follower count goes on the record. The hour does the rest, and the rails verify every euro: 90% leaves at the transaction, nobody's word required.
Most fail. You will probably make €0.
That is a result, and it will be published.