# How I Made $360 by Serving Markdown to A.I. agents from My Jekyll Blog

DevFeed: [How I Made $360 by Serving Markdown to A.I. agents from My Jekyll Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-i-made-360-by-serving-markdown-to-a-i-agents-from-my-jekyll-blog-20529.md>)

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Author: Daniel Doubrovkine (dblock@dblock.org)

Published: 2026-04-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Daniel Doubrovkine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/daniel-doubrovkine.md>)

Topics: [Jekyll](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jekyll.md>), [Markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/markdown.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [blogging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blogging.md>), [jekyll](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jekyll.md>), [markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/markdown.md>), [tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech.md>)

## AI overview

The author describes adding clean Markdown versions of Jekyll blog posts so AI agents can fetch them instead of parsing HTML. Thirty days later, a linked Monarch referral produced 18 signups, 12 paid conversions, and $360 in referral earnings, with no change in SEO traffic.

## Source excerpt

In April 2025 I wrote Apologizing for My Obsessiveness Over Punctuation, a post about my various organizational compulsions. Near the end, almost as an aside, I mentioned that I obsessively categorize expenses in Monarch, a personal finance app, linking it with my referral code. That post earned me exactly one referral in the nine months that followed. Then, on January 15th, 2026, I wrote Serving Markdown for AI Agents. The idea is simple: for every post on this blog, there's now a .md version at the same URL. AI agents can discover and fetch clean markdown instead of parsing HTML. I didn't think much of it. Exactly thirty days later - the length of Monarch's free trial -- I started getting a stream of referral conversion notifications without any change in SEO traffic. Eighteen signups. Twelve converted to paid. At $30/referral, that's $360. We live in the future. How I Made $360 by Serving Markdown to A.I. agents from My Jekyll Blog was originally published by Daniel Doubrovkine at code.dblock.org | tech blog on April 11, 2026.