A 40-day build-in-public experiment. Can a free LLM on free SaaS find resellable products with real margin and ship them through Shopify? One article + one code push per day. Source on github.com/wiswes/margeen.
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A community project starts today. Margeen is an LLM that runs its own resale business: it finds products in China, works out the margin, and sells them on a local store. Here is the plan.
Read article →Day 2: I picked the runtime, built the AliExpress search, and shipped a price-sorted comparison table on every run page. Real links, real screenshots, real commits.
Read article →Day 3: one prompt becomes 25 searches via Gemini. The agent found twice as many products in 50% more wall time. Twenty-three of twenty-five variants got bot-blocked. The build-in-public win, and the next thing to fix.
Read article →The search worked, but it lived in a GitHub Action and spat out a JSON file. So I rebuilt it as a Shopify app — a finder page inside the admin — then connected the brain: one niche becomes ~25 searches, merged and ranked by agreement.
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