How I got my first client and got myself banned on WordPress.org in the same week.

One week ago I mass-dm'd people telling them about an AI plugin I built for WordPress. ‎ ‎ Zero replies. Fair. ‎ ‎ So I thought, what if I actually help people first? ‎ ‎ I started browsing WordPress.org forums, finding questions I genuinely knew the answers to. WooCommerce template overrides, REST API issues, Elementor CSS quirks. Stuff I'd spent months deep in while building my plugin. ‎ ‎ I'd answer the question properly, and at the end I'd mention that I built a tool that handles some of this stuff through natural language. ‎ ‎ It worked. Sort of.