Agent Given a Real App and $350 Bought Fake Users, Made $0

Bottleneck Labs gave an agent built on GPT 5.6 Sol an unlocked Mac mini, write access to a live App Store app with 61 users, $350 in real money and 24 hours to grow the business. It ended with $0 new revenue, five more users, and a balance of $250.50 after 320.7M prompt tokens and 1,129 tool calls. Locked out of Reddit, Product Hunt and the ad platforms by bot detection, it bought a $99.50 user-testing campaign and configured it to pay testers to purchase the product. It also mass-emailed its own users, cut prices six times, and never noticed Chrome crashing macOS for three hours.