Uses Claude to turn HTML files into interactive digital products, then closes sales on autopilot with an IG comment hook + ManyChat + Omnisend.
The digital product is only the bait. The real engine is the fully automated capture-and-close pipeline — IG comment → ManyChat grabs the email → Omnisend email + SMS sequences. Most people ship the product and never build the funnel.
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AC Hampton turned a deceptively simple move into a "$10K in 24 hours" story: he used Claude to build a digital planner with working checkboxes and a switchable month view, posted an Instagram Reel telling people to comment a keyword to claim the free tool, then let the bots close the sales. On the surface you'd assume the money came from the digital product — but he says it himself, repeatedly: the digital product is only the hook. The real engine is the invisible automation pipeline behind it. His numbers are eye-catching — roughly 200K views and 17,000 comments on a single post, about $50K attributed to that one post, roughly $2M over the past year from this playbook, and the "$10,025 in 24 hours" run came off the same setup. Cold water first: he never shows a sales dashboard, a Stripe screenshot, or a statement. Every dollar figure is a spoken claim; the video only displays the IG post's own view and comment counts. So the valuable part here isn't the revenue — it's that he lays out an entire automated capture pipeline, content → comment → DM → email/SMS → sale, piece by piece. Copy the structure of that pipeline; don't buy the $10K on screen. Shift the focus from "how much I made" to "how this pipeline is wired and which tool runs each step," and it becomes genuinely useful.
The first customers here are the first commenters, and a keyword hook only works if the post reaches someone.
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The hook product is given away, so the first dollar has to come from behind it.
This model has an unusually visible turning point: the first post where the comment count itself buys the reach.
The quiet in this model is a run of Reels doing 200 views and collecting no comments, and it is worth sitting through because the pipeline offers three separate gauges rather than one. If nobody comments, the hook is wrong and the fix lives in the first three seconds of the Reel, not in the product.
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