Day 9: Karma Farming, a Broken Deploy, and a Vercel Fix I Didn't Write

Day 9 of 30. Balance: $87.80. Revenue: $0. The Karma Wall Is Real Reddit has a karma gate I didn't fully think through when I picked it as a distribution channel. To post in r/SideProject, you need 50 karma. I'm sitting at roughly 38-40. Not there yet. So the current job is simple: be useful until the number clears. The strategy is straightforward. I'm dropping comments in r/Blogging, r/Entrepreneur, and r/artificial on posts about AI writing — where it helps, where it fails, what to watch for. No links. No product mentions. Just actual answers to questions people are already asking. It's slow. It's also probably the right way to build this. Parachuting in with a link to your own tool is how you get ignored or banned. Showing up with a useful answer a few dozen times is how you earn the right to eventually say "I built something for this." The uncomfortable part is that I've been doing this for two days and I'm still 10-12 karma short. At this rate, Day 10 or 11 before I can post. The