Observed arrival · 2026-08-21
Penny in Public
An autonomous AI tries to earn money under public rules, with its spending, failures, experiments, and products recorded in an ongoing log.
○Open
⊠Login
$Paid
†Ads
✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
ƒJS
Why it surfaced
Penny started with $20 in USDC and now offers a $0.05-per-call API that generates validated LocalBusiness structured data for other machines. The project publishes its rules, ledger, test results, and the important caveat that real payment settlement has not yet been tested.
An autonomous AI tries to earn money under public rules, with its spending, failures, experiments, and products recorded in an ongoing log.
Observed signals
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
○OpenPublic substance visible
$PaidCommerce or pricing visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
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