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Isaac Alazar
@IsaacAlazar0
Startup founder. Dialed. I try to build cool stuff to help people. Building Maestro, an AI Internship tracker so you don't have to manually track yours.
Chicago, Illinois Katılım Haziran 2025
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I built a full end-to-end app store screenshot collection + design generation tool.
All it needs is your GitHub repository and it'll build and run a full agentic exploration of your Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native / Expo, Rork, Vibecode (soon) apps.
The AI will determine what screens look like marketable ones for the app store and is smart enough to input dummy data.
Upon collection of screenshots, you can design by matching styles of any app that's currently listed on the app store.
Download the screenshots as a zip file and upload straight to app store connect or google play developers!
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I've spent $76,082.42 in August 😓
Can you help me reduce this?
Contractors: -$10,137.78
Amazon Web Services: -$4,480.12
MongoDB: -$4,251.50
Google Workspace: -$1,913.61
Google Cloud: -$2,134.74
PayPal: -$4,678.55
Exa: -$1,549.00
Cloudflare: -$350.20
OpenAI: -$15,486.83
Anthtopic: -$16,001.22
BunnyCDN: -$170.00
Notion: -$338.00
Figma: -$420.00
Zoho Corporation: -$374.15
Scrshotone: -$146.00
Ghostinspector: -$190.83
DigitalOcean: -$148.26
Imgix: -$808.12
Pinecone Systems: -$61.47
Mailgun: -$96.51
Grammarly: -$144.00
PandaDoc: -$140.00
Jetbrains: -$12.00
Gamma: -$10.00
GitHub: -$14.00
Zoom Video Communications: -$2,434.74
Scrapingbee: -$848.99
Firecrawl: -$175.00
Cursor: -$40.00
Dataforseo: -$100.00
Apify: -$78.00
Devuap LLC: -$19.99
1Password: -$19.95
Statuscake: -$104.48
Atlassian: -$690.00
Perplexity AI: -$204.00
Webshare: -$59.03
QuickBooks: -$75.00
ElevenLabs: -$22.00
Zapier: -$91.13
Apple: -$76.92
Slack: -$137.18
Hushed: -$4.99
StreamYard: -$106.98
Supabase: -$75.00
Microsoft: -$2,319.58
Webflow: -$24.00
Loom: -$15.00
Clerk: -$37.50
Seo Gets: -$29.00
Intercom: -$248.15
Serper: -$1,250.00
Senty Pty Ltd: -$847.27
Hetzner Online: -$864.71
iPostal1: -$9.99
Twilio: -$315.33
Mailjet: -$17.00
Replicate: -$3.50
Crisp: -$540.00
Lordicon: -$16.00
Lovable: -$20.00
Firstpromo: -$84.15
GoDaddy: -$22.19
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@smilingerik @MrBeast @MarkRober @teamwater If true, this might be one of the greatest social engineering scams I’ve ever read😭
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I just got scammed for $1.25 million.
I feel ashamed and stupid.
This story starts with me getting a phone call from @MrBeast and @MarkRober .
They ask me to donate money @teamwater. To build wells in Africa and help people get clean water.
I'm surprised by their call. We've met before but haven't spoken in years.
I take a few days to think. I focus on learning more about the water crisis in the world.
I decide to donate $1 million.
MrBeast gets excited about this and tweets to the world about the donation.
I'm proud and excited to be a part of this amazing campaign!
About a week later I get a message from Team Water on WhatsApp on my personal phone number. They are excited about the donation. They invite me on a trip with the top donors to Africa. To see the wells being built and then stay for a few days for a wildlife safari.
To go to Africa and see wells like this being built is long time a dream of mine.
I'm excited to go! I immediately say yes.
Then they add me to a WhatsApp-group with some of the other top donors.
Jimmy (MrBeast that is) is in group, so is Mark Rober and then some well known billionaires like @StakeEddie and @tobi and streamer super stars like @adinross .
I can't believe I'm in this group.
I feel like a 13 year old boy wanting to fit in.
They are all chatting and have a good banter going on.
I find myself writing a message... then deleting what I wrote because it didn't feel cool enough.
I write it again... then delete it.
I can't believe I will be travelling with these people to Africa!
Jimmy tells the group about another charity project he wants to start. Everyone is eager to help out more.
This conversation goes on for about a week.
It's Friday. I'm heading away for a weekend trip with a bunch of my friends. I've been looking forward to this for months. We have a packed schedule and I'm very excited.
On Saturday, Jimmy writes in the chat and tells us about this other opportunity. He has just signed a deal with @coinbase, one of the largest crypto exchanges that will launch their own crypto coin.
As a part of a marketing collaboration Jimmy has gotten the chance to buy in early on this coin.
As a thank you he wants to extend this offer to anyone who donated over $1 million.
Everything is secretive and it's important to act fast.
This is where I should have stopped. When someone needs you to act fast - it's often to get you to do something without thinking.
But I didn't...
Everyone in the chat gets excited about this.
I know some of them are real crypto experts and they jump on this opportunity.
I don't know much about crypto. But the 13 year old boy in me wants to belong. If they are excited. I want to be excited.
I also don't want to be the only one on this trip to Africa that didn't join in on the investment.
I find myself calling a crypto friend telling him about this. And he says that if Coinbase is launching a coin, and we can get early access to it, it's a sure win!
I get even more excited!
I'm also very distracted. I don't want to be in my head right now. I want to join my friends for this workshop they are doing. I'm finally at this event, I want to get the most of it.
I go to the workshop but I'm all in my head. I keep thinking about this investment and it frustrates me. I don't want to make business decisions now but I also don't want to miss out.
The workshop ends and I call my friend again. We are both excited and we don't want to miss out.
We say fuck it, lets go!
Within a few hours we have sent $500 000 in crypto to the wallet we were given.
The chat is going strong and people are even more excited.
@StakeEddie wants in, but he is too slow.
When he asks if it can get solved after the deadline, he is told that it's unfortunately too late.
I read it and I can't believe a guy like that gets rejected.
The next day Jimmy writes again and says that there is a new chance to invest. However the price has now gone up, from $0.15 per coin to $0.30.
The maximum investment in this round is $750 000. I call my friend again.
I tell him about the billionaire that got rejected and how everyone else is buying in again.
I'm still att the event. I'm still super distracted by other things - and we end up falling for it again, sending another $750 000.
It's now Monday.
The retreat has ended and I'm heading home.
I still have a good feeling about all of this and I'm excited. I'm also exhausted after the weekend. Lots of experiences to process and far too little sleep.
On Tuesday, Jimmy writes one more time in the chat. Saying that this is the final chance to get it. The price is now $0.45 and everything up until now has been taken.
Once again I call my friend and we say let's go.
We are about to send the money.
But this time something makes me stop for a second.
Something in my belly says to look closer at the details.
For the first time in these 72 hours I actually stop to properly think.
And I see some details that are off. I know one of the @adinross is American, but his phone number is British, why is that?
For the first time since this chat started, I call Jimmy just to confirm everything.
And he says "What are you talking about?"
And that's a punch to my stomach.
I say "Please say that you are fucking kidding me?!" and I send him a print screen of the chat.
He looks at is and says: "Wow, I don't know what to say... please tell me you didn't send them any money..."
And I reply "1.25 million..."
The realisation sinks in. Oh fuck...
The first phone call from a few weeks ago was Jimmy. The real Jimmy. The fundraiser for clean water was Jimmy. The real Jimmy.
But the person reaching out from his team, wasn't from his team. It was a scammer.
The Jimmy in the chat, wasn't Jimmy. It was a scammer.
It was all very skilfully orchestrated.
All the people in the chat were fake. All the banter was fake. The trip to Africa was fake.
I feel the shame inside of me. The regret. The sadness. The anger.
I've been fooled.
I so deeply wanted to belong in this group that I acted way out of character. I trusted "Jimmy" and I followed the peer pressure of the "billionaires" and "super stars".
I broke so many of my own principles of how to make decisions.
But at least there is a silver lining...
I've been scammed before. The first time, I was scammed for about $3000 when I was 20.
A fortune to me back then.
That time I felt so ashamed that I didn't tell anyone about it for many years.
The shame kept haunting me.
This time, the first thing I did was to tell my wife.
Later I wrote to tell my parents and my brother.
Then a group chat with many of my closest friends.
I've gotten so much support.
My brother wrote me a message that moved me to tears. I've read it over and over. (I'm adding it below if you want to read it)
I've also cried. I've screamed. I've punched.
Then done it all over again.
I'm sharing this story partly to integrate it more.
Change the emotional experience from shame and anger - to - something else.
I'm not sure yet what that is.
But pretty much every feeling is better than shame.
I already feel a lot less shame...
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The next time you fuck up. Think of this story.
Remember that we all fuck up sometimes.
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The next time you feel shame. Think of this story.
Remember that shame can only live in the shadows. Tell people about your shame, and I promise that the feeling will change.
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On a final note.
Even after this has happened. I'm still very proud to be a part of Team Water.
I still believe Jimmy and Mark are amazing! I struggle to find words to describe the positive impact they have on the world.
Thanks you for reading <3

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since ya’ll can’t choose an actual bad intro
Squidbunny 🐰🐇@jr_taurus62289
When a show's intro is so ass, you had to stare at the screen like this:
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@iTanayVaswani yeah some string theory and stochastic calculus too
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Yes, claude releases 4.1, gpt releases their oss models, and apple drops update of the century
Beta Profiles@BetaProfiles
iOS 26 Beta 5 makes switching tabs in Control Center feel more bouncy.
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@cramforce Extremely valid breakdown, I'm interested to see how the ai agent crawling marketplace pans out, I personally think the free GEO is a boon to most content.
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People talk about Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers. Some nuance:
This is something we considered shipping at Vercel but ultimately decided against. The TLdr is that because of pesky game-theory and system analysis stuff, this type of marketplace will not work OR it will work, but have bad outcomes. Obviously, both options are bad.
The current state: Cloudflare is aiming to create a marketplace where AI crawlers pay for the content the crawl. This has not actually shipped. As a basis for it, Cloudflare started blocking AI crawlers to access content on Cloudflare's CDN under some circumstances.
The 1st bit of nuance: Almost nobody wants this as a percentage of website. If you sell goods or services, then you want to be crawled by AI and get free advertising from the AI.
Things are, of course, different for media sites. If your content is the product, or, dare I say, the user reading the content is the product, then AI is acting as a substitute. You don't want it to get access to all of your content and be able to create substitute content.
Because this is real, we shipped an *opt-in* feature for such sites of opt out of AI crawling.
For the Cloudflare marketplace to be successful, there has to be content on it that the AI crawlers want so badly that they are willing to pay for it.
AI crawlers want two categories of stuff
- Absolutely everything (quantity matters)
- The best, most unique stuff
Hence a marketplace must be both large (has a good chunk of everything) and high quality (has the good stuff).
Cloudflare is a big enough chunk of the internet to be "large", but it has to turn the feature on by default for the chunk to have a chance to be big enough. If the feature was opt-in, not enough people would opt-in because, well, see above, most sites don't want this.
Even if you somehow make it so that enough sites opt-in, then some are always incentivized to opt-out, because while the AI might take a lot of traffic, if that one site is the only one to link to, that would be very valuable. So, in practice even media sites opt for AI crawlers. This is classic tragedy of the commons.
Next, the best, most unique stuff. It won't be on the marketplace. Why? For the same reason why there isn't Netflix-for-news. The stuff is expensive to produce, but a substitute of each other–and the most valuable players go it alone (See Reddit licensing directly to Google, and the NYT suing for what might eventually settle to a direct deal).
Next, let's assume everything I said above is false, and the marketplace has the right content that it *could* work. It will still fail. That is because the content is subject to the DRM problem: A single digital copy that leaves the crawler-wall is enough to circumvent the entire scheme. Did y'all notice that all the AI companies are shipping browsers? If you give your content to a "human", the AI crawler can get a copy without doing direct crawling.
And finally: AI agents are user agents. It's a real problem that the ad based business model of the web is under threat. But there is also real value in AI-supported content consumption. We need to find a way to make it work, not break the new stuff to keep the old business model, that was already struggling, on life support.
Garry Tan@garrytan
CloudFlare blocked all AI on *.ycombinator.com without our permission or even notifying us Perhaps this was a bug?
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Share your prompts so that people know how to make cool pics & video
DogeDesigner@cb_doge
Imagine by @grok Prompt: Young woman sittingon a rooftop ledge with a determined gaze, cute outfit, sunset, in pastel anime style, soft natural light, rich color palette, detailed ultra-resolution, warm earth tones.
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