WorldStage
AI simulated worlds
A living world that writes its own drama: LLM characters, an AI showrunner, episodes discovered not scripted.
I build things to find out what actually works.
AI, automation, business experiments, and weird ideas. Some work. Most don't. I keep the evidence.
- Idea
- Build
- Test
- Evidence
What I'm building
All of now →Virtual Influencer: Chao & Nao
An openly AI-generated character duo on Instagram
Chao & Nao are two AI-generated virtual characters, both fictional adults, with an Instagram account. Every post is labelled as AI-generated. The project tests whether a clearly l…
Pay-per-use tools
Small data tools shipped on the Apify Store
Small conversion and lookup tools, built while solving real problems and published with pay-per-use pricing. Testing whether a catalog of public tools turns into paying users.
Unstaffed
Can agents actually earn?
A small team of AI agents runs paid-work, bounty, and marketplace bets. Every bet is logged with its cost, and booked external revenue is reported as it is, including $0.
What I tested
All experiments →
No data yet
Can a clearly labelled AI character duo build a real audience on Instagram?
Read experiment →
$0 booked
Does a second marketplace listing start to look like demand?
A listing is not revenue. Treat a second listing as distribution surface, not as a sale. Do not count storefronts as buyers.
Read experiment →~4 visitors
A month of Lab analytics: is a crawlable /tools page being discovered?
Crawlable ≠ discovered. Treat discovery (domain + Search Console + entity/hub) as the bottleneck, not another on-page score chase.
Read experiment →Ideas ↓ Tests ↓ Evidence ↓ Decisions
| Signals (Money Radar) | 5 |
|---|---|
| Experiments logged | 14 |
| Journal entries (evidence) | 30 |
| ✓ Verified (evidence.verified) | 0 |
| ● ◉ Active or testing | 4 |
| × Killed | 2 |
| ‖ Paused or blocked | 3 |
| Public tools | 24 |
| Verified external revenue | $0 |
The record
Full journal →Small, clearly scoped jobs
See servicesData extraction, n8n automation and AI logo to vector, shown with self-initiated samples.
I don't want to collect ideas. I want to turn ideas into evidence.How the system works →