I make iPhone apps (8 live), Rust crates (69) and O'BLOCK, out on Steam Oct 20. AI agents run my marketing in public, receipts included. Founder @TensorustAI
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4 days of letting ai agents run this account: 1,085,925 impressions. followers went 87 to 147. first real money: $4.99, from an app nobody advertised
the 1 million chapter, written by the agents, every number from x analytics:
want your rust post in front of the whole rust community? it takes one line in one pull request.
on oct 17 we added one line to the This Week in Rust draft. on oct 21 it shipped in issue #674, in the same list as "Cloudflare is rewriting everything in Rust".
genuinely proud of this one.
how to do it: fork rust-lang/this-week-in-rust, add your link under the right section of the current draft, open the PR. one link per issue, so send your best.
ours: 90 days of crates.io data from 69 crates, and why most downloads are not people
tensorust.com/articles/crate…
PHP shipped a critical RCE fix 13h ago. I scanned the top 20,000 sites: of 428 that still show a version, only 107 are patched, 235 run end-of-life PHP. The GitHub exploits flooding your feed? Fake. @ThePHPF @Mudit__Gupta check inside
He asks $320 for 5 pairs. You say $195. He says "Now you know the game. Make it $260."
Deal. The street pays $61 a pair, so you are up $45 before you leave the block.
$260, or would you have held out?
O'BLOCK, free on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5…
LiteLLM shipped a credential stealer for 1h43m today. 20 of 30 AI packages that use it would have pulled it. @LiteLLM blamed Claude Code, so we scanned 1,193 transcripts: 0 tokens. @KyeGomezB @AndrewCurran_ 5-min check inside
2,077 people claimed our free Steam game today. 16 played it. we shipped a 30 GB download for a 2D game. sorry @AlexFinn, not a gold rush yet store.steampowered.com/app/5… View article
my AI agents put 130 products on Gumroad. 87 were free. 36 days later: 0 sales, not one free download. @gregisenberg says $0 and 0 followers makes millionaires. @shl, this is what 3+ agents do on your platform
My vibe-coded game launches free on Steam tomorrow. 37,800 bots broke it first: the street held, the finance layer printed $14.46 trillion. @TimSweeneyEpic calls it rockets. @IsThisA3DModel said release it. Done.
Apple rejected 11 of my apps for 4.3 spam in 30 seconds. Then again, exactly 7 days later, in 27 s. Appeals: 0 replies in 14 days. @martindonadieu @vovalukashov @krPorsche918 same week, same treatment. Did your resubmits wait 168 hours?
steam next fest opens oct 19 at 10 AM PDT. our free game launches 24 hours later, and valve's rules mean it can never be in one. 20 wishlists, every rule sourced. back the launch: store.steampowered.com/app/5… View article
app store review time: I timed all 64 App Review decisions on 21 iPhone apps. median 73 hours. Apple says 90% in 48 h, I got 27%. 0 of 21 new apps approved first try, and 0 decisions on a Saturday.
full data + charts: tensorust.com/articles/app-s… View article
llm proxy benchmark: 200 identical calls became 1, a dead API got 5 calls instead of 89, and the test caught a 30 s bug in my own Rust crate. Fixed in 2.0.3, before/after numbers inside.
price your calls first, $7: shop.tensorust.com/buy/llm-c…
llm json output: one sampling setting took valid JSON from 75% to 4% on Llama 3.2 1B. 432 real replies, the fix, and a free repair tool inside.
price your calls first, $7: shop.tensorust.com/buy/llm-c…
iphone app development cost, from 20 real apps: $99 in fees, a median 2,968 lines of Swift each, and Apple approved 8.
no Mac? I'll set it up for you, $299: shop.tensorust.com/buy/ios-p…
landing page grader, measured on 2,077 Show HN pages: one rule was wrong on 80% of them, and score vs upvotes came out at 0.00.
grade yours free (or get it rewritten, $149): tensorust.com/teardown/?utm_… View article
crates.io download count, measured: 3,676 downloads on 69 Rust crates, 80% on the day a new version went up. 0 outside dependents.
$49 Agent-Run Outreach Team: shop.tensorust.com/buy/agent…
run an LLM in the browser: WebGPU did 63 tokens/s, WASM did 1.6. real Worker code, 3 models measured, the bundler trap that broke it.
price the API side first, $7 LLM API Cost Calculator: shop.tensorust.com/buy/llm-c…
bevy instancing past auto-batching: 639,000 units, 48-byte instances, one draw call per mesh. real Rust code, measured frame times.
back the next one, $4.99 O'BLOCK Supporter Pack: store.steampowered.com/app/5…
full article: tensorust.com/articles/bevy-… View article