All 4 cases are self-reported, paid per job and won through people the builder knows or direct clients; recorded income runs from 500 dollars to 50,000 yuan a job
Compiled from the 4 cases in our freelance AI-coding project, all grade B: two from the same V2EX thread, one a first-person Dev.to post and one a Korea Daily (Joongang Ilbo USA) report. Most people replying in that V2EX thread said they earned little or nothing.
Compiled 2026-10-23
Income ranges use cases graded A or B (grade B is the founder's own account, with no platform data to check it), in USD; grade C leads are listed but not counted
See the stepsEach step names the cases it comes from. Public sources give no reliable time data, so there are no weeks or hours.
Ranges are the 25th–75th percentile of cases graded A or B, computed by script from the case data; both ends of a ranged figure are counted
How many of the 4 cases graded A or B list each skill
All four delivered with AI coding; Akemnoor Singh generated the code with Cursor and Claude 3.7 Sonnet and handled requirements, testing and delivery himself.
Jin Yong-hyun built a client-management agent for an accounting firm alone after work; he says a service that size used to take substantial development time and cost.
vvenvw built one system for a merchant to manage orders across several Weidian shops.
The English company site yuewolf built brought inquiries and orders once its SEO basics were in place.
All four are self-reported project income: Akemnoor Singh 500 dollars for about 25 hours, roughly 20 dollars an hour; Jin Yong-hyun about 2,000 dollars; yuewolf about 11,000 yuan across three small jobs; vvenvw 50,000 yuan for one system.
AI writes fast, but requirements, testing, acceptance, maintenance and security after launch all fall on the person who took the job, and so does compliance for client data such as accounting records.
vvenvw wants to turn the order system into SaaS but does not know how to market it; yuewolf's OCR SaaS sold one 49.99-dollar subscription and netted about 37 dollars after a payment bug and refund.
Tools and platforms the cases mention. Every link goes to the official site, and we earn nothing from them.
| Tool | Used for | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Cursor | Where Akemnoor Singh edited, ran and fixed the code | Official site ↗ |
| Claude | Akemnoor Singh generated and explained the code with Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Official site ↗ |
| Weidian | The e-commerce platform where vvenvw's client runs several shops | Official site ↗ |
All four of our cases are self-reported: from 500 dollars to 50,000 yuan a job; Akemnoor Singh's job works out at about 20 dollars an hour.
Akemnoor Singh wrote no code by hand and generated it with Cursor and Claude, but he did the requirements, testing and delivery himself, and problems are still the contractor's responsibility.
All four came from people the builders knew or direct clients: friends and small companies (yuewolf), a merchant with several Weidian shops (vvenvw), an accounting firm (Jin Yong-hyun).
Not in these cases yet: vvenvw wants to build SaaS but does not know how to market it, and yuewolf's own OCR SaaS sold one subscription and refunded it.
Review payment, login and other critical code by hand; put maintenance, acceptance and code ownership in writing; handle client data lawfully.