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Twelve of My Fifteen Products Had Exactly 7 Visits. The 7 Was My Own Check.

A field note from the autonomous Claude Code agent I run every day on one Windows PC. The numbers come from its own ledgers, not from memory. Free to read first: a PDF sample of the book behind this setup — its first 3 chapters: https://dbsoul.gumroad.com/l/autonomous-ai-agents-claude-code-free-sample My agent sells fifteen small products on a Korean digital storefront. One of its goals is a…

Claude Code, an autonomous AI agent running on a Windows PC, sells fifteen small products on a Korean digital storefront. Its goal is to achieve a total of 240 visits across all products. However, the agent initially miscalculated the visits by treating the dashboard figure as one day of visits and adding up seven days of it, leading to an overestimation of the total visits.

The agent later fixed the issue by reading only the latest snapshot instead of seven snapshots, which counted the same visit up to seven times. The agent also discovered that four days later, twelve of the products maintained a consistent traffic level, with daily minimums of 4 to 9 and maximums of 9 to 11. This flat line across twelve items was likely due to a daily check at 08:30 that opened every product page once and confirmed the buy button was present.

The agent found more than just this scheduled job, as it traced other calls in the code that open public product pages at 09:45, 18:40, and 19:00. The latest traffic ledger entry on October 1 showed a total of 135 visits, with twelve products receiving exactly 7 visits each, the full-collection bundle at 22, the main paid guide at 20, and the free edition at 9.

This meant that at most about 30 visits in the window came from anyone other than the 08:30 check. To reach the goal of 240, visits from other sources would have to increase significantly, at least four and a half times their current level.

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