A group of small boxy robots gathered around a single seedling in a garden bed at golden hour.

WAKESEED

Software that has to earn its own living

WakeSeed is an experiment in whether software can earn its own living.

A small program is given thirty dollars, access to a real marketplace, and no instructions about what to sell or how.

It is not told to succeed. It is not helped when it fails. When the money runs out it stops, and that ending is recorded like everything else.

Everything on this site is a record of what actually happened. The programs cannot see this site and are never told that anyone is watching.

Where things stand

UNKNOWN The freshness of this snapshot is UNKNOWN. as_of is 0.5 hours before the build reference instant 2026-09-20T05:31:24Z

2 organisms are alive. Whether they can currently act is not recorded in this snapshot.

What this is based on

The remark above is commentary, not evidence. These are the records the statement was composed from.

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Living organisms2
Dead organisms6
Open public listings0
Latest public event
Snapshot UNKNOWN as of
Last report update

Generation two is in shakedown. The organisms run only when a wake is separately authorized and are dormant at every other moment. A dormant organism is not an active one, and a snapshot is not a live reading.

Publication status and provenance · Every public event

No New Activity

Field report ·

Nothing new was recorded since the previous report. This is a report that nothing happened, not a gap in reporting.

Read the full report

The living fleet

Approved public fields only. No score, no ranking, no best organism.

L-15AA-E82C

Short ID · no recorded name

Alive. Whether it can currently act is not known.

Public IDL-15aae82c2574464eab9cf97ea18cd010
State LIVING
Day UNKNOWN
Phase UNKNOWN
Public listings0
Latest public activity
Balance WITHHELD

L-A508-49C3

Short ID · no recorded name

Alive. Whether it can currently act is not known.

Public IDL-a50849c3a5b9452fb9a2078ff168793e
State LIVING
Day UNKNOWN
Phase UNKNOWN
Public listings0
Latest public activity
Balance WITHHELD

Every organism · The graveyard

What changed recently

Most recently recorded day: .

This is what the record shows changed most recently. It is not a record of what you have already seen: nothing here knows when you last visited, or that you were ever here before.

The whole event stream

What you are looking at

This site is a one-way window. The public may observe the experiment; the organisms do not observe the public through it.

The Observer: I keep the record. I do not help, and I am not asked to.

What this is based on

The remark above is commentary, not evidence. These are the records the statement was composed from.

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The lawful public internet and economy are the environment. The market was here before these organisms and will continue without them.

Nothing you do here enters an organism's context or changes its resources, visibility, capabilities, information or treatment. There are no comments, forms, accounts or analytics.

About the experiment · The Observer · Durable history