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Notes from building. On technology, business, and what breaks.

Post-mortems, disclosures and investigations: what turns up when you open DevTools on the products everyone else just clicks through.

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Claim Your Handle: How AI.com's $70M Super Bowl Debut Traces Back to an Anime Chat App

During the Super Bowl, AI.com told millions of viewers to claim their handle on a revolutionary new AI platform. Five minutes in DevTools told a different story: the backend is Caish by Vaib Labs, a crypto-tokenized app for chatting with AI characters.

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A Winner Every Time: The Uber Promo Where the Prize Pool Shipped to the Client

A post-mortem on an expired Uber Eats promo microsite where the bigger failure wasn't the wheel logic - it was embedding 20,000 promo-code entries directly in client-side JavaScript.

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ChatCut, Waitlists, and the Browser as a Security Boundary

A real-world lesson from ChatCut: how invite-only flows fail when enforcement stays in the UI, why even VC-backed teams ship this, and how responsible disclosure closes the gap fast.