The Funny thing I see is that we both are working same problem. You are Using your programming skills and I my head.

Here is what you need to do: publish posts in the range of 5 to 10 minutes before bidding closes. Then bid. It is the only way you can bite the 25% curation reward from the bot. Otherwise you end up loosing, since of the 75% you get, that is divided by 2 to get SBD back. You brake even when you get X/0.375, where X is your original bid.

And yes, you can make money if you play right. Don't count on followers but on your head calculations