I Automated My Entire Digital Product Business on a $13/Month GCP VM. Here's the Architecture.

Three weeks ago I set up a loop on a $13/month GCP VM and went to sleep. By morning it had built, packaged, and queued Claude Code development guides for Gumroad. Autonomously. While respecting a set of rules I call OPERATOR.md. This is the writeup: architecture, what worked, what surprised me, and the hard constraints that kept it from going sideways. The Problem I had a pile of Claude Code config work I'd done across projects. Hooks, CLAUDE.md patterns, MCP server setups, workflow...