u/Rare_Guide_9830

You can play it here. The leaderboard is global so let's see who can get the highest score! Feel free to contribute to the repo.

Prompt: Build a fun, extremely smooth typing game end to end. It should measure your speed but be genuinely fun to practice with, and it should adapt up and down to your skill so progression feels fair. Free website, global leaderboard, optional GitHub or X username to show your avatar (no sign-in). Fully responsive. Visually test everything, test the mechanics, and keep iterating until it's something you're proud to show off as a demo of Opus 5.5. Use Sonnet 5.5 subagents for well-defined parallel tasks, track usage and timing separately, and open it in my browser when done.

Been running an experiment the past few weeks to see if AI can build and run an ecommerce business on its own. I only give direction and review everything. Yesterday the brand got its first paid customer order ($64 order) from the ads that Astra built and runs completely on its own.

GPT-6 Astra was a game changer here (have done the same experiment before with Fable and Opus 4 unsuccessfully). With Codex computer-use skills and built in image-generation this one was next level.

I'm documenting this entire process here which shows a timeline of the build and breaks down exactly what Astra does vs what I do.

Here's what it's built so far:

Brand - I had Astra research top performing canvas brands and reverse engineer their art styles, website design and conversion optimization, ads, social media, etc. It researched available .com domains and then built the entire brand around INKRALLY.

Art - 270 pieces across 11 collections. Generating is the easy part, getting stuff that actually looks good printed on a big canvas is not. I rejected a ton of it, sometimes the whole round because they looked to obviously AI generated.

Product testing - I've sold canvas art before so I already know what is needed for quality art here. I personally verified all of the digital print files and ordered one of each size canvas to personally inspect the result (and then started ads after my order was successfully quality controlled).

Studio - Collaboration is key for projects like this. Astra built a custom studio where I can see all of the art as it gets upscaled and being able to visualize it in 3d as the art is wrapped around a canvas.

Product Photos - With codex built in image generation we created realistic photography of the products (5 per product, ~1,350 total).

Store - It built a custom React/Vite storefront hosted with Vercel and connected with Shopify for checkout and Printful for the print on demand. The hard part wasn't the site, it was mapping the 810 size variations on the right Printful product and print file. Codex computer use was a life saver here.

Ads - It reversed engineered winning ad creative from popular canvas brands through the meta ad library. It set up the Meta campaign itself in Ads Manager through the browser. It also set up test campaigns on Pinterest, Google Shopping + PMax, and ChatGPT ads (only Meta has been running the rest have been slow to get approved).

What I actually did besides prompting - accounts, billing, business verification, inspected upscaled art for quality contorl and ordered test canvases

Currently this is running with a $2k/mo ad budget and just getting started. I will be documenting the entire process and eventually publishing a YouTube series going more in depth about how this goes. The ultimate goal is to sell this brand for $25k+ to prove that AI can start and run a profitable business that gets acquired.

First customer order down, 10 customers is the next goal. Other things on the roadmap:

- Scaled UGC outreach campaign to have real creators post video ads in return for free art and small flat fee payment (Astra + Grok Bot will run this)

- Setting up Grok Bot to handle order fulfillment in Printful, customer questions, and manage organic social media content

- Free digital art downloads for screen saver and profile backgrounds.

I've been having too much fun with Astra. It made the car design with image-gen-2, laid out a storyboard after studying popular high-end car brand commercials, and generated videos through Veo 3.1.

Full website page for the brand as well (will put link in comments)