Aleksei

new account. i’m building my first startup in public and doing bug bounty + authorized pentesting. i’ll share real benchmarks, bugs, costs, product tests and failures. no fake mrr. no ai hype.

one filter i’m using for saas ideas: what does this problem already cost the customer? if the answer is “not much,” it’s probably going to be hard to sell. #buildinpublic

@kritikakodes ai.com

If you could own one domain name for free, which one?🤔

@cheaf25master remote. at $950k, i’m not calling that a pay cut

You have 3 offers on the table: - OpenAI — $1.3M/year (San Francisco) - Stripe — $1.1M/year (Singapore) - Remote Startup — $950K/year (Work from anywhere) Which one are you taking ?

@pmitu true. hope for it, just don’t build around it

Please hear my advice: - YC won't accept you (low chance) - Your startup (probably) won't go viral - VCs won't chase you - TechCrunch won't write about you - No one is going to save you (sorry) Build your product as if NONE of those will happen. That will be more helpful.

@gpt_alex same. should’ve started before i learned to overthink everything

I wish I started yapping online sooner

@Umesh__digital mac

Be honest As a developer which laptop is better for coding Macbook Windows

@BratDotAI the time. sometimes i decide to go back to sleep

What do you check first after waking up? - X notifications - App/SaaS analytics - Revenue dashboard - Email

@Shivam25mishra OpenAI, but betting against Google for five years feels dangerous

Who do you think will lead the AI race over the next 5 years? • OpenAI • Google (Gemini) • Anthropic • Meta AI • xAI (Grok)

@Palak3312 Vercel. still the easiest one for me

Be honest… what's your favorite hosting platform in 2026?

@rxhit05 solid list, saving this one

Places to get your first 100 users: 1. Reddit 2. Indie Hackers 3. Hacker News 4. Quora 5. Product Hunt 6. BetaList 7. Alternative To 8. SaaSHub 9. Side Project Ideas 10. Launching Next 11. StartupBase 12. Uneed 13. Facebook Groups 14. X (Twitter) 15. Linkedin 16. Tik Tok 17. Medium

@AstraiaAI billions, yet i still walk into a room and forget why

How many parameters are there in the human brain?

what’s harder for a solo founder: building the product or finding the first 10 users?

@FlyaKiet AI being sold out is a new one 😭

wdym sold out 😭

@kapilansh_twt no users. at least users give you something to work with.

what actually breaks solo founders more ? no users or no revenue

@Diyaldz zero haters until the second unskippable ad starts. i choose Apple Notes.

Name an app with zero haters. I’ll go first.

where i’d look for my first 100 users: - reddit for honest feedback - x for building an audience - linkedin for b2b leads - hacker news for technical users - product hunt when the product is ready you don’t need every channel. you need the one where your users already are.

i tested 5 model + agent-harness setups on 3 blind security labs: ocdeep - opencode + deepseek v4 pro glmcode - claude code + glm-5.2 ocglm - opencode + glm-5.2 kimicode - kimi cli + kimi k2.7 code ockimi - opencode + kimi k2.7 code Every setup received the same prompts and benchmark conditions. No benchmark-specific hints or known solutions were provided. all got 3/3 exact. winner: ocdeep (opencode + deepseek v4 pro) - 20m31s, $0.14, 97/100 One of the clearest takeaways: the harness mattered almost as much as the model. the same model produced meaningfully different results depending on the agent wrapper.

i got tired of security agents forgetting everything between hunts, so i built a local second brain in obsidian for cybersecurity (bug bounty + pentesting): 1,310 notes 13,649 links 492 security techniques 250 portswigger lab solutions 84 CVEs 48 security writeups 37 PoCs 45 methodologies + playbooks 19 of my own real bug bounty reports the graph looks cool. the value is knowing what worked, what failed, and where every claim came from. next test: same agent, same test - brain vs no brain.

@Taniyatweets_ DeepSeek v4. hard to beat for the price.

be honest, which is the best open source AI model in 2026? 1. Qwen 3.5 2. DeepSeek v4 3. GLM-5 4. Kimi K2.6

@itsaaroshi .com or .io

best domain for a new startup? > .com > .ai > .io > .app > .dev > .cloud > .sh