---
title: 'How I Lost 500,000 Rubles Trying to Promote a Palmistry Bot'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=pkm8ivi1Brw'
video_id: 'pkm8ivi1Brw'
date: 2026-08-12
duration_sec: 75
---

# How I Lost 500,000 Rubles Trying to Promote a Palmistry Bot

> Source: [How I Lost 500,000 Rubles Trying to Promote a Palmistry Bot](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pkm8ivi1Brw)

## Summary

The video recounts the story of a palm-reading chatbot that was earning 50,000 rubles monthly without advertising, and the creator's failed attempts to scale it with paid traffic, losing 500,000 rubles in the process.

### Key Points

- **Initial Success** [00:02] — The Heromancer chatbot was earning 50,000 rubles monthly without advertising, using organic traffic from Yandex and Google.
- **First Scaling Attempt** [00:31] — Spent 200,000 rubles on YandexDirect, but only earned 50,000 rubles in revenue, resulting in a net loss.
- **Second Attempt and Failure** [00:59] — Despite increased traffic from articles, there were zero new sales, leading to a total loss of 500,000 rubles.
- **Accepting Non-Scalability** [01:13] — The creator concludes that some topics are non-scalable, and paid traffic is not always the solution.

## Transcript

promote the Heromancer chatbot. That was [ __ ] daring. And the stupidest thing is, it was already bringing in money without investing in advertising.  A project made for fun.  Palm reading in bot, in TG.  The bot brought in
50,000 monthly without advertising using traffic from Yandex and Google.  And then my friend and I had a brilliant idea.  Let's scale this [music] [ __ ].  Let's become millionaires on esotericism.  No sooner said than done, we blew 200,000,000 into YandexDirect and earned
What kind of business is this, [ __ ]?  What kind of business is this, [ __ ]? That is, we bought 50k of revenue for 200k of advertising budget, having in the background the same 50, but free from SEO.  [ __ ], it’s not for nothing that I hate paid traffic and consider it
just utter crap.  And it would be worth stopping here, but we are not like that.  We continued.  The subscribers from my agency started writing articles about Heromancy, the Hills of Venus, and other triangles of Sadurna.  and they put
another 300,000 into this banquet.  Yes, traffic has increased, but there are [ __ ] zero new sales.  Cold product. This is a fiasco, bro. And it was worth accepting that there are non-scalable topics, but I didn’t.
non-scalable topics, but I didn’t. And that's exactly it.