An open-source agent reportedly built a payment-check service in 48 hours
A Reddit poster says they updated SmithersBot, an open-source agent tool, so it can work on longer goals instead of stopping after a few hours. As a test, they told it to build a business, and the agent chose a problem around the x402 payment method. The agent reportedly built x402oracle, a service that checks whether an API is live, fast enough, and unchanged before paying for it. The poster says they only handled Railway signup, buying the domain, and pointing the domain to the deploy.
Key points
- SmithersBot was changed to keep working on longer goals, according to the post.
- The agent chose a problem related to x402 payments without being told which business to build.
- x402oracle checks an API before payment for uptime, delay, price, and setup changes.
- The post says each check costs $0.002 before the agent pays the endpoint.
- The poster claims the agent handled problem choice, coding, testing, and deployment work.
Quick term guide
- open-source
- Software whose code is shared publicly so others can inspect, use, or change it.
- business
- An activity where you provide value to others in exchange for money.
- tracking
- Collecting records of what a user does inside an app.
- AI agent
- An AI program that can inspect information and suggest what to do next.
- testing
- The process of checking that software does what it's supposed to do, usually by running it and looking for errors.
- API call
- A request your app sends to an AI service to get a response — like asking Claude a question from within your own software.
- endpoint
- A web address where a service sends or receives data.
- deployment
- The process of putting software changes into a running system.