Where it started
Sneaker bots & reselling
Flipped 100+ pairs of sneakers at 13, using bots I built with a Discord community. At least $10–15K in profit over 12–18 months.
- Role
- Reseller and bot builder
- Status
- Completed
- When
- 2020–2021 · age 13
100+
Pairs flipped
$10–15K
Profit over 12–18 months, at least
+$650
First flip, in 7 days
What I did
- Learned the basics on code.org, then built a sneaker bot with people from a Discord community
- Ran hundreds of accounts on proxies every release, using bots like Better Nike Bot and Solekick
- Bought and resold 100+ pairs, starting with an AJ1 Travis Scott “Mocha” I won on eBay for $700 and sold on StockX 7 days later for $1,350
- Ran my bots for other people for a cut, when I didn't have the money to buy every pair myself
Challenges
- Sneaker sites kept getting stricter on bots, so we were always fixing the bot and working around new restrictions
- Low odds per account meant running hundreds of accounts and paying for proxies every release
- When I ran bots for other people, a lot of them got their shoes and never paid me, and I had no system to track who bought what
What I learned
If you don't track who's getting what, you end up paying for it.
The money I made here funded everything that came next.
Millad Afshar