Starthe
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I accidentally started my online business journey near the end of 2017. The first thing I tried was CPA, focusing on dating offers for Spain since I’m from there. It’s a long story—kind of like a movie with ups and downs, friendships lost, and all that—but here, I want to talk about the technical stuff.
At first, I was just posting Spanish dating offers on old IRC chat rooms, using Spanish servers. I shared the offer links with shorteners, nothing fancy. The offers came from some not-so-great CPA networks, the only ones that let me sign up.
Doing that, I got my first few sign-ups. I can’t remember the exact number, but it was about 2 to 4 conversions each day. I mention this because I’ve seen people trying similar things lately, getting a few conversions daily, and they wonder: Can this grow bigger?
To make things easier, later I made the whole thing automatic. Before, I used to write and reply to private messages by hand, which is the old-school way. Then, I created different types of bots—some would answer private messages, others would send messages, and some would write in the group chat every few minutes.
I didn’t know much about programming—just enough to change a little bit of HTML on a webpage (and even that I barely knew back then). I spent a lot of time looking for small pieces of code here and there until I made something that worked okay, then fixed it up over time. I say this because if I could do it, anyone can, as long as they spend time on it.
I had about 6 laptops running all day and night with several bots on each one. Back then, I didn’t even know what a virtual machine was.
NOTE: The bot uses the mIRC language. This code goes into the "remote" tab in the mIRC program, which you can get from their official website.
Here’s an example of a bot that replies to private messages. It’s set to answer after 11 and 13 seconds with two different messages:
You can also change the code in different ways, like for example, changing:
For:
If you change that command, the bot will send private messages to everyone who joins the channels where the bot is.
Another thing I always did when setting up a new bot was to add all the moderators to the ignore list. That way, the bot wouldn’t reply if any of them messaged me. You have to do this one at a time by typing /ignore name or by clicking the name and picking “ignore.”
IMPORTANT: Be sure to uncheck all boxes in Options → IRC → Logging so the bot doesn’t save chat logs. I broke a couple of laptops before I found out it was because of that.
The most important thing to remember is that this way of doing things is OLD and doesn’t really work anymore. When I first started, hardly anyone got banned because it was new, and bans were pretty rare if you were careful and didn’t spam too much. Back then, they only banned by IP address.
Now, things are very different. The servers where I used to send messages have strong anti-spam systems. They block IP addresses, domain names, and even use automatic shadowbans and word filters for things like “register,” “mature,” or “dating.” At the end, I had to change IPs and domains every day, swap letters for numbers, change fonts in messages, but even that didn’t work well.
I’m sharing this because I won’t be using this method again. Maybe someone else can take this idea and change it to make it work and earn money. But if you want to try, don’t use Spanish servers — they are very strict now.
When it worked best, my group of bots made about 190 to 260 euros a day. The leads I got were pretty good for chat traffic. As a comparison, I charged around 2.3 euros per lead for Spain. I also sent some traffic to revenue-sharing offers for a while, and those did well too.
My only costs were some old, cheap laptops (a few thousand dollars) and a VPN subscription that cost about $9 each month. Back then, regular VPNs were okay to use, but now servers have filters that make them hard to use.
Early on, I started learning fast. I found out what landing pages, trackers, and custom domains were. I also moved from the bad networks I started with to better, more serious ones. That mix of things helped me make up to around $240 a day—not just my bots alone.
Advertisers and networks usually don’t like chat traffic, but if you can hide where your traffic comes from (using tricks like double redirects) and the leads are good, they usually don’t mind once they find out because it works well for them. Almost all the advertisers I worked with knew where my traffic came from, so it was something we agreed on.
At first, I was just posting Spanish dating offers on old IRC chat rooms, using Spanish servers. I shared the offer links with shorteners, nothing fancy. The offers came from some not-so-great CPA networks, the only ones that let me sign up.
Doing that, I got my first few sign-ups. I can’t remember the exact number, but it was about 2 to 4 conversions each day. I mention this because I’ve seen people trying similar things lately, getting a few conversions daily, and they wonder: Can this grow bigger?
To make things easier, later I made the whole thing automatic. Before, I used to write and reply to private messages by hand, which is the old-school way. Then, I created different types of bots—some would answer private messages, others would send messages, and some would write in the group chat every few minutes.
I didn’t know much about programming—just enough to change a little bit of HTML on a webpage (and even that I barely knew back then). I spent a lot of time looking for small pieces of code here and there until I made something that worked okay, then fixed it up over time. I say this because if I could do it, anyone can, as long as they spend time on it.
I had about 6 laptops running all day and night with several bots on each one. Back then, I didn’t even know what a virtual machine was.
- About the Bot
NOTE: The bot uses the mIRC language. This code goes into the "remote" tab in the mIRC program, which you can get from their official website.
Here’s an example of a bot that replies to private messages. It’s set to answer after 11 and 13 seconds with two different messages:
Also, you need to put this piece of code inside the "aliases" section:On *pen:?:*:{
/timer 1 11 msg $nick Looking for secret fun with local married ladies
/timer 1 14 msg $nickWWW.SAMPLELINK.COM
}
You should also add this code to options > perform.
The last two pieces of code help close private messages every 60 seconds. This was one of the first problems I had to fix because after my bots ran for a while, they would stop working because too many private messages were open. These codes fix that problem.
You can also change the code in different ways, like for example, changing:
On *
For:
If you change that command, the bot will send private messages to everyone who joins the channels where the bot is.
Another thing I always did when setting up a new bot was to add all the moderators to the ignore list. That way, the bot wouldn’t reply if any of them messaged me. You have to do this one at a time by typing /ignore name or by clicking the name and picking “ignore.”
IMPORTANT: Be sure to uncheck all boxes in Options → IRC → Logging so the bot doesn’t save chat logs. I broke a couple of laptops before I found out it was because of that.
- A few things to keep in mind
The most important thing to remember is that this way of doing things is OLD and doesn’t really work anymore. When I first started, hardly anyone got banned because it was new, and bans were pretty rare if you were careful and didn’t spam too much. Back then, they only banned by IP address.
Now, things are very different. The servers where I used to send messages have strong anti-spam systems. They block IP addresses, domain names, and even use automatic shadowbans and word filters for things like “register,” “mature,” or “dating.” At the end, I had to change IPs and domains every day, swap letters for numbers, change fonts in messages, but even that didn’t work well.
I’m sharing this because I won’t be using this method again. Maybe someone else can take this idea and change it to make it work and earn money. But if you want to try, don’t use Spanish servers — they are very strict now.
When it worked best, my group of bots made about 190 to 260 euros a day. The leads I got were pretty good for chat traffic. As a comparison, I charged around 2.3 euros per lead for Spain. I also sent some traffic to revenue-sharing offers for a while, and those did well too.
My only costs were some old, cheap laptops (a few thousand dollars) and a VPN subscription that cost about $9 each month. Back then, regular VPNs were okay to use, but now servers have filters that make them hard to use.
Early on, I started learning fast. I found out what landing pages, trackers, and custom domains were. I also moved from the bad networks I started with to better, more serious ones. That mix of things helped me make up to around $240 a day—not just my bots alone.
Advertisers and networks usually don’t like chat traffic, but if you can hide where your traffic comes from (using tricks like double redirects) and the leads are good, they usually don’t mind once they find out because it works well for them. Almost all the advertisers I worked with knew where my traffic came from, so it was something we agreed on.
