

Tim
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@tim404x
Co-founder @hubxyz | YC P26. Real-world data for frontier labs.



Everyone knows who uses AI Nobody knows who builds it It all starts with a scout. Join now: hubxyz.notion.site/368f90b396db80…

Someone in Bogotá opened HubApp this week because a Scout in their neighborhood told them about it That Scout earns when they sign up. They earn when they complete their first task. The more contributors the Scout finds, the more the network grows. Hub Scouts is open now. South America and North America. Your job: find video contributors in your area, onboard them to HubApp and build the local Hub community from scratch. No experience required. The new economy is being built in places like Bogotá, São Paulo and Mexico City. You can be the person who builds it in yours. Apply below ⬇️





Production AI agents fail the same way every day – loops, dead ends, wasted tokens. @reasonblocksinc is the new runtime that catches failures mid-run and learns from every one. 42% more accurate, 52% cheaper on SWE-Bench Pro. Congrats on the launch, @sajeevmagesh and @rohankvij! ycombinator.com/launches/Q5O-r…



⚰️ The open web is dying. Not slowly NYT in court. Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers by default. Reddit paywalled to everyone except Google and OpenAI. Cloudflare's CEO said bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027. If your AI strategy depends on scraping the public internet, you have 18 months before your pipeline breaks. Three strategies survive: 1/ Licensing deals. $200M checks to News Corp and Reddit. Only frontier labs can play. 2/ Synthetic data. Works for math and code. Collapses on everything else. 3/ Consented crowdsourced collection. Real people, real conditions, paid directly, auditable The first two have hard ceilings. The third compounds. Every contributor expands the languages, locations, and modalities you can serve. It works the way search worked in 2001 and mobile in 2009. This is the bet at @hubxyz. 150+ countries already collecting what frontier labs can no longer scrape. Audio, image, video, text. With consent. With provenance. The scrapers will keep fighting the lawsuits. The licensing deals will keep getting more expensive. And quietly, the companies that invested in real collection infrastructure will become the only pipe that still works.

🧪 The most useful AI training data isn't in a lab It's in 1,000 camera rolls across the world. Taken over years. $15 per accepted submission. Every entry is a raffle ticket for a $5,000 prize pool. Wednesday only.