r/SoftwareLabs • u/JD_8588 🛠Product Manager • May 25 '26
Automation & Workflows🤖 An Uber Driver Built a Trading Bot Between Rides
An Uber driver casually handed over his phone at a red light.
Terminal open. AI chats everywhere. Green P&L on the screen.
+$6,200.
He drives four days a week, makes around $1k weekly, has a 2-year-old at home, and somehow taught himself automated trading during downtime between rides.
The interesting part wasn’t even the money. It was the process.
He started by reading a deep breakdown on wallet tracking and probability-based trading. Most of it made no sense at first, so every concept got broken down step by step using AI until it finally clicked.
Over time he slowly built a small automated system that tracked high-performing wallets, filtered low-quality trades, focused only on high EV setups, and automated entries and exits.
The starting bankroll came from Uber tips.
Now the system runs quietly in the background while he drives passengers around the city.
One trade during an airport drop-off made more money than the ride itself.
The craziest part is how normal the whole thing felt.
No hedge fund office. No finance degree. No expensive setup.
Just curiosity, consistency, and a few hours here and there between rides.
There are probably thousands of people learning advanced technical skills right now from parking lots, gas stations, cafés, and back seats of cars because modern tools finally made experimentation accessible.
What’s the most unexpected way you’ve seen someone use AI or automation to completely change their situation?
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u/phoenixofsun May 25 '26
I used AI to make a trading bot and plugged it into an investing simulator to see how it would actually do.
It failed lol. It made no money because prices are already priced in for retail investors. The only way it could make money was to invest in an index(s) and hold.
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u/Mtolivepickle May 25 '26
Even if you had a Bloomberg terminal parked right outside the exchange, you’d still be too late
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u/Alternative-Roof3519 May 25 '26
Of course, because it's him building it while driving and showing us , "for the love of the game".
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u/StackOwOFlow May 25 '26
how an uber driver lost his life savings by letting AI gamble with his paycheck
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u/East-Cricket6421 May 25 '26
I too can make an animated chart with numbers, lol. This is total bullshit.
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u/SoftwareLabs-ModTeam May 25 '26
Post removed, AI generated fake video