signalReddit r/SideProject2026-09-18
Someone paid me for an app I barely even talked about
Carry, a Chrome extension that exports ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok chats to markdown files in an Obsidian vault, generated its first two $59 lifetime payments from unknown buyers after a quiet 1.5-month launch period. Built with no account, API key, or server, it relies on existing browser sessions, making it fragile to API changes, yet the author reports that receiving payment shifted his mindset from hiding the product to solving its maintenance challenges.
- topic
- OPC / AI Monetization
- source
- Reddit r/SideProject
score
score 6 out of 10. 0-10: how dense the facts are, multiplied by how much you can do with them after reading. 8+ means the topic's evidence bar is met: benchmarks and availability for a new model, amount and investors for a funding round, revenue figures for a solo-money story. Below 5 an item does not enter the digest. A press release scores 3 or less, a reprint loses 2, anything older than 14 days loses 1, a headline that misleads loses 3.
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