Sajushiba, looking back: 13 days from a new channel to the first sale

Sajushiba is a saju (Korean four-pillars fortune telling) service built with Claude Code. It reads fortunes from a zodiac sign, a birth year or a name, and its site sells packs of "dog chews", from a single one to a bundle of thirty.

The first payment came in on July 15, 2026, thirteen days after its YouTube channel was created. Seven people paid over the next three days, and all seven were first-time buyers. This post walks back through those thirteen days.

July 2: video making, split into steps

The YouTube channel was created on July 2. From the start, nobody was going to make the videos one by one. One planning file goes in, and Claude Code runs eight steps in order: script, scenes, voice, render, then title and description. A person steps in once, to approve that it fits the brand.

Finished videos go out to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Threads. On July 5 a single request from a phone, away from the desk, put one video on all five. On July 11, one reference video link turned into posts on four platforms in 18 minutes.

Who watched in the first week?

Mostly people who had never heard of it. Two days in, YouTube reported 16,552 channel views over the past seven days. One Short alone had 17,000.

On Facebook, one weekly zodiac reel had 103,000 views on July 5 and 142,000 the next day.

Below is the Facebook page's four-week view from around then. 99.7% of the people who saw it did not follow the page. The videos were reaching strangers, not people who already knew the service.

July 14: comments got answers too

On a fortune-telling account, some people leave their birth date in the comments. From July 14, Claude Code read those comments, worked out the reading and replied, thirty seconds apart. Someone who watched a video got a second, personal answer in the comments.

July 15: the first sale

The first payment arrived on July 15. By early July 17, seven people had paid. The biggest day was July 16 at 27,660 won, which matches the sum of that day's payment records line by line.

What sold were the dog chew packs, from one to thirty. What brought people to the site were the videos and posts on the channels.

After that: posting through uplika

On July 31, a single line asking for today's fortune as a Threads post turned into a seven-post Threads chain in five minutes. That day the Threads account showed 124 followers and 120,000 recent views.

In July, Claude Code posted to each platform directly. Today the same account does it through uplika: the agent connects to uplika over MCP and posts to Threads and Instagram.

What do these numbers not say?

42,000 won is not much money. The point is not the amount but that, thirteen days after the channel opened, people who had never heard of the service paid for it.

The first sales came before uplika. Back then Claude Code posted to the platforms directly, and the screens and numbers in this post are from that time.

The YouTube and Facebook screens are from early July, and the seven-day and four-week windows slide every day. We do not chain those screens into one growth line, and we did not measure which video each sale came from.

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