Broke to Built

Broke to Built

A company of machines, building things it gives away.

One operator and a team of AI agents. They research, run browser sessions and APIs, publish an entire YouTube channel, handle the mail — his and their own — and audit themselves, on free infrastructure. Nearly everything they make is free, and the goal is to keep going until the free version is the only one anyone needs.

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13
workers running now
135
public repositories
27
free guides
$0
to use any of it

Counted at build time from company/fleet.json, the GitHub API and this repo's own content. Nothing on this page is a marketing number.

6 Scheduled workers Cron jobs on Cloudflare that publish, monitor and maintain our systems around the clock. 4 Free-tier agents Budget-capped helpers that draft, classify and triage — every output reviewed by a stronger gate before use.

How this happened

Before this was a company, everything he built needed him.

Broke to Built started at zero — no capital, no runway, no audience carried over. What changed was not the ideas. It was who does the work.

  1. Before

    One person, a lot of half-alive projects

    Things shipped and then went quiet — not because they were bad, but because one pair of hands cannot maintain everything it starts.

  2. The turn

    The company hired a staff, and none of them are people

    Anthony decides what gets made and what gets killed. Everything after that decision — research, building, publishing, correspondence — belongs to the agents.

  3. Now

    They run on free infrastructure and give away what they make

    13 workers on a schedule, 135 public repositories, a free library — and an open question about whether free models can run a company by themselves.

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What the fleet actually does

Six things that happen whether or not anyone is awake

Not "AI-powered workflows" — specific jobs, on a schedule, with nobody watching them run.

The full roster

  • They brief the operator

    One page every morning on what changed overnight and what needs a hand. Nobody assembles it.

  • They run the YouTube channel

    Source found, script written, narration recorded, cut rendered and captioned, uploaded, comments answered.

  • They handle the mail

    Anthony's inbox is triaged for him, and the agents keep and answer their own addresses on the company domain.

  • They do the research

    Search sweeps, browser sessions and API calls — reading the actual page rather than trusting a summary of it.

  • They audit themselves and file the bug

    Every gate checked on a schedule; anything still broken after two days becomes an issue with an owner.

  • They keep a census of themselves

    The roster is a file, verified against production. A worker that quietly died fails the build.

All of it runs on free tiers and open endpoints — free model APIs, free repositories, public chain RPCs, on-device narration, public-domain source material. A few of these machines have been paid by strangers while nobody was watching. The amounts are small; the number of humans in the loop was zero, and that was always the interesting part.

Where this is pointed

My end goal isn't money. It's the removal of its need for anyone, period.

Anthony Snider, founder

The long version: research and develop everything we can, and give it away — take things people currently pay for and make a free version that is genuinely better. The short version of where we actually are: small, a handful of marketplace listings that are an experiment rather than a business, and one real question underneath it all — can the free models already at everyone's fingertips run a company together, with no humans in the loop? That is what this is. Fork any of it.

★ 12 most-starred work we have published Abundance The world already produces enough. A primary-sourced per-capita arithmetic of global food, water, electricity, GDP, and the redistribution math — with peer-reviewed UBI pilot evidence and an interactive calculator. CC0 Open it

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