Ethan Fulton

I’m already building something and want to take it further

I made an automated trade bot for an online platform that has a player-driven economy. With my interest lying in automation security, and just my nerdy interest in player-driven games, I felt it was a perfect project for me. There were many different factors I had to account for, such as the endpoints being undocumented, automation ethics, and implementing fair logic when generating trades. I was able to reverse engineer what went under the hood when a trade was sent manually, and I was able to eventually automate it programmatically. I learned how to capture requests I was sending them and how to create artificial payloads. I learned how employ ethical automation behavior in my bot, where I ensured that traffic was limited so I wouldn't overwhelm the servers on the other end. Additionally, I also had to create logic to generate trades that were win-wins, and not just lowballs that were unfair for the other side. It was a really fun project and I was really proud of it when it actually worked. After a month of running it (100 trades a day between other players in the virtual community), it made about $40 USD worth of the virtual currency. Which is great for something that worked passively for me. On top of that, the returns scaled with how much value my account had, so it could go as high as $300 USD a month.

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