[AussieWog93]

If a naked man locked in a tiny apartment can make 10k/yr doing what is essentially admin work, then it's completely plausible that a disciplined and skilled engineer with web scrapers, computer vision, custom Python scripts and pants could make 100k+ working part time.

[spoonjim]

Don’t be so certain. These sweepers are usually entering every possible sweepstakes they can. While you might be able to automate the entries and do it in 10 minutes instead of 3 hours a day, unless you start doing fraud like multiple identities, there may simply be no more sweepstakes to enter.

[rvba]

https://qz.com/476914/i-built-a-twitter-bot-that-entered-and...

Twitter bot to retweet and follow evetything that mentioned a contest... won a thousand contests.

[AussieWog93]

It's not fraud if you use others' identity with their consent.

[ALittleLight]

If you could automatically enroll yourself in every sweepstakes legal for your locale, then you could also offer that service to anyone else interested. People could pay you 5 dollars a month to get automatically entered into every sweepstakes.

Of course, this scales badly. The more people who take your service the less valuable it will be as the odds of winning will decrease. Perhaps the natural balancing point would be somewhere where you could still profit. Might be best to charge nothing but take a cut of the winnings. That way people wouldn't be discouraged from joining by the diminishing likelihood of winning, and the chances that someone from your pool would win would only increase over time.

[TeMPOraL]

> Of course, this scales badly.

Like with plenty of such ideas, the answer is to do it anyway - scale it until it breaks, making sure you're always making profit yourself, and then call it a day. Enjoy your money and do something else. A while later people will forget, and someone else will do the same thing.

(The real answer is, of course, to not do this at all, because it's unethical. But that consideration doesn't stop everyone, unfortunately.)

[spoonjim]

Sure. I am talking about calling yourself three John Smiths at three different addresses for example.

[tester34]

What actually makes you think so?

Not only naked man starts profiting at 0 day meanwhile skilled engineer needs to develop his tools

but then also automation just makes things faster, so what if quantity of "tasks" is limited?

[b112]

Hey, wait a jiff, I have pants!