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Manual raffle and market checks replaced: about 12 hours a week back with Grok Bot agents

Picked and checked by Olga Pearson, host of The Practical AI Show · Published

Result

self-reported

He estimates Grok Bot saves at least 12 hours a week. Agents automate raffles (Alphabot, Discord, and others), add wins to his site to track upcoming mints, and run market and memecoin analyses.

Laky (@ThatLife101) builds NFT tools (mintCTRL) and says Grok Bot changed his daily work more than anything else in 2026. He runs agents that handle raffle entries across Alphabot and Discord, log wins on his site, and analyze market metas daily. His estimate is at least 12 hours saved each week.

Who did it

Laky (@ThatLife101)NFT tools (mintCTRL)Laky (@ThatLife101) on X · Nov 3, 2026

Try it now

  1. List every raffle or mint site you check by hand and how wins should land on your tracker.
  2. Give one bot raffle automation and another daily market notes, each with a do-not-spend rule.
  3. Have wins write to your site or sheet automatically, then spot-check daily.
  4. Time a normal week of raffle and research work before you trust the estimate.
  5. Keep wallet actions human-approved.
Copy-paste prompt
Automate my raffle entries on [list]. When I win, add the project to my upcoming-mints tracker on [site] with date and source. Separate bot: each morning summarize trending metas from [sources]. Never move funds or sign transactions without my OK.

Make it run every week

A play works once. Turn it into a routine in three small steps:

  1. Run it once and check the result yourself.
  2. Give your AI a schedule. Tell it when to run this play (every week, or every month) and to message you with what it found before you act.
  3. Keep a log. One line per run: what was checked, anything flagged, what you did.

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What to watch out for

Self-reported estimate; crypto and NFT automation can trip ToS and wallet risk. Keep signing and spending human-only. Build it with Page: your mint tracker page so wins have a public home.

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