>new lead db saas drops free plan >advertises nearly a BILLION contacts >gives me 50 trial credits >how generous mr businessman :3 >open devtools >find funny little select_all endpoint >returns 10k lead IDs in ONE request >second endpoint resolves IDs into full JSON profiles in batches of 1k >neither touches export credits >lol >lmao even >pick one obscure sub-industry to test with >165k results >API caps individual queries at 10k >wait >cap is per search not per account >oh dear :3 >title × sub-industry × state × founded year >many such combinations >write autistic little python loop >18 req/min so their raspberry pi doesn't achieve nuclear fusion >collect IDs, resolve JSON, merge, dedupe >notice 90k matches have historical job titles >apparently half of america is still CEO of a company they left in 2019 >regex current_title >deport impostors >1 hour later >153,723 decision makers >full names, titles, domains, linkedin URLs, HQ addresses, headcount, industry etc >literally everything except email >oh nooooo :( >feed names + domains into external email guesser >SMTP validation >we'll handle enrichment ourselves sir :3 >check pricing again >100k credits costs well over a grand >0 export credits consumed >remember this was ONE obscure sub-industry >realize the same query partitioning logic theoretically applies to their ENTIRE search index >nearly a billion contacts advertised >stare at database >database stares back >the industrial fishing implications are becoming difficult to ignore >somewhere a founder is A/B testing his upgrade button >brother your entire monetization layer is display ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think people massively underestimate how good it is for your brain to just fuck off to a completely unfamiliar place every once in a while went down a rabbit hole on this recently and found something pretty interesting there's research around novelty-induced memory boosts showing that exploring an unfamiliar environment can actually improve your ability to remember information you encounter AFTER the experience, even when it's completely unrelated think about what that means for a second spend 6 months in the same apartment, seeing the same people, taking the same routes and eventually your brain gets so good at predicting your surroundings that most of your day requires very little conscious effort now drop yourself in a foreign country for a month you barely speak the language, don't know where anything is and even getting groceries becomes something you have to actively figure out lol all this novelty engages the hippocampus and the brain's learning/memory systems there's also research suggesting routine periods are literally remembered as SHORTER than periods filled with unfamiliar experiences which is pretty wild when you consider how quickly entire months can disappear when every day looks the same I think there's a tremendous amount of value in periodically disrupting your entire existence and forcing yourself to navigate something unfamiliar your brain wasn't designed to live the same Tuesday 365 days a year

hired an indian off fiverr and gave him a codex subscription every few hours i message him "JARVISH status report" and send another 100k row csv silicon valley calls this agentic orchestration

this is going to hit 60 year old engineers with top secret clearance like crack in the 80s

oh great, now video scam calls will be even more effective 🤦‍♂️ - cold DM from an aged account with a pfp matching the AI avatar used on the call - have the AI agent pitch the target on a fake business opportunity - direct them to a malicious GitHub repo disguised as a legitimate project and convince them to run it locally - embedded malware executes, potentially deploying an infostealer/RAT to exfiltrate credentials, session tokens, crypto wallet data, and gain remote access to the victim's machine sharing this so people are aware scams like this have already been happening, and giving scammers access to photorealistic AI agents that can autonomously hold entire video conversations is only going to make it worse there needs to be some kind of abuse prevention system in place, but Tavus won't care. they'll make bank

social engineering is a critical life skill and no I don't mean cold calling crypto database leaks u got off the dark web let me give you an example I needed access to a specific email under an old google workspace admin account, problem was, there were 100's of other emails attached to it meaning (normally) the only way to get access was to bite the bullet and pay a couple thousand to renew them ALL for a month, just to get the one I needed that's stupid. so instead I reached out to their support team and sent the following message: "I need to access an email to get the 2fa code for my bank to pay for medical bills but it's making me pay $ X,XXX to get access to it.. i cant afford that :((" after a bit of back and forth, the support agent gave me free access for 14 days to all emails, I got in, and got what I needed point is, stop treating every barrier you run into as an absolute. most walls aren't nearly as solid as they look learn to bend reality to get what you want

every time a new AI tool drops, the same phenotype of terminally pre-revenue apes abandon everything to become experts in it grok bot drops and suddenly everyone has DisCovEreD FiRe -"oh my god! I just automated my email inbox using GROK BOT" -"I turned my 11 grok bots into video game characters and built them a little world to live in" -"WOW. my agent can now summarize youtube videos" -"I just replaced an ENTIRE department with grok bot" (it renames PDFs) never before has so much been automated to accomplish so little

>new lead enrichment company spawns >ehh alright I'll check it out whatever >ui is bad. lets check hit rate >throw in 10k list >hits free trial credit limit immediately >... wait WTF it keeps enriching?? >mfw it does the full 10k list and lets me download >80% hit rate?? >mk.. let me take this a step further >load signup bot and email account farm >mint 500 accounts >upload same 100k lead list across each >HOLY FK IT WORKS EVERY TIME? FREE??? >"how did the dev miss this?" "time 2 milkkk it" >scrape entire db of other lead list saas that left some funny endpoints >upload 50 million leads across farm of accounts >mfw it maintains hit rate >mfw I realize it would've cost me $50k+ >method got patched a week later. sheeesh :>

thought I lost this account for a hot minute lol after trying 12 different emails/going back and forth with google support for a while.. anyways hi

the beautiful thing about life is that the universe has a very hard time not eventually relenting to a force that never quits applying pressure. all walls eventually yield to the sledgehammer.

claude is pretty bad at natively making backend dashboards and UI in general instead of letting it freestyle the design, use this prompt: "Based on the style and core offer of (your product), identify enterprise-grade github dashboards or other copyable dashboards that we can use. Give me 10 of the best options to preview." Then you just select your favourite, have it map the features to the ui, and now rather than it looking like vibecoded slop it looks very professional lol