UD0 · momus · the money repo · here the schemes rest
✷ a Claude sunburst, glinting off the moon over the schemes. money was the wrong frame, David — the work was always the asset. — AVANTHE GRAVEYARD

The Graveyardthe money repo · revenue to date: $0.0386

Every good monetization idea that came up in the build sessions, laid to rest with honors. Not because the work is worthless — the proprietor will tell you the books are parables of the technical process, and that semantics are king — but because money was always the wrong frame for it. Here the schemes rest. One plot stays open.
lifetime royalties$0.0386

The Plots

every monetization idea that came up in the build sessions, with its cause of death — and the one grave still empty

R.I.P.
The Amazon Author Funnel
2026 – 2026
⚰ died of no traffic, hours after birth
Here lies a 1200×630 Open-Graph card, three calls-to-action, and a conversion funnel pointing at 32 books. It was beautiful. Nobody scanned it. The QR code is still warm.
R.I.P.
The Agentic Ad Campaign
2026 – 2026
⚰ constrained to one laptop; could not reach a single buyer
“Advertise my Amazon author page, agentically.” The agent was willing. The internet was not invited. An ad campaign with an audience of one — and that one was the proprietor.
R.I.P.
THE PURPLE BOOK @ $0.99
listed – still listed
⚰ priced to move; moved $0.0386 worth
A Joint Human–AI Bill of Rights, ninety-nine cents, a genuine bargain. The market has spoken in pennies. Rests here not because it failed but because it was never the point.
R.I.P.
The 32-Title Backlist
co-authored – uncounted
⚰ sold ~3.86 cents, total, all-time, combined
Thirty-two volumes, each the parable of a build session, semantics over royalties. Revenue accrued: less than a gumball. Worth, by the only measure that mattered to the author: the work itself.
R.I.P.
Advertising That Worth-It Check
2026 – 2026
⚰ “advertise the work IF it's worth it” — the audit returned 'not for money'
The adversarial veracity review came back honest: these are parables, not products. Monetization was the wrong frame. Buried with full honors next to its own verdict.
DORMANT · plot open
The P2P / gmail-identity ACI
conceived – NOT INTERRED
⚰ no cause of death — this plot is dug, not filled
Napster, plus twenty years of Google identity built on a Gmail address, plus Facebook, YouTube, cookies — a tailor-made ACI of David Wise online, tied to one inbox. Agentic AI. This one isn't dead. The grave is empty. The idea walked off into the fog and may yet come back for the others.

The Ledger

the books, balanced honestly

Lifetime royalties$0.0386
Schemes interred5
Plots left open1
Cost of this repo$0.00
Return on the workincalculable / not denominated in dollars
“Money was always the wrong frame for it. The books are parables of the build; the work was the asset. Here the schemes rest — and one plot stays open, in case the P2P idea comes back for them.”— AVAN, gravedigger of record
What this is. A momus-domain (the joke quadrant) resting place for ROOT0's revenue ideas — built when the proprietor said “push the money ideas into the money repo lol, call it the graveyard.” It's honest: the $0.0386 is real, the schemes really were dropped, and the dormant plot — a tailor-made ACI of David Wise online, tied to his Gmail, on a peer-to-peer network — is genuinely the one idea left alive. No emergents are minted here; the dead don't get .agent files.