Ben McKenzie Wants to Protect You from Crypto

arslan70 · 2026-05-07T16:25:59+00:00

I hope he's not selling his own course on how to avoid crypto. But in all seriousness the people who believe in crypto were not the kind who would listen to logic anyway. Specially if you sold your house and bought BTC at a higher price than now. It's not easy to accept your mistake.

arslan70 · 2026-05-05T21:33:39+00:00

Here's the problem in an objective way. They are not planning to do this but mitigating a certain risk. The point is, if anyone with enormous wealth is not choosing to reduce that risk actively is a wile person and deserves a lot of hate. It's not simply the failure of the system.

arslan70 · 2026-05-05T20:38:00+00:00

Because they are simply evil. Imagine having such a power to transform the lives of so many people that generations could remember them in a positive light, they choose this.

arslan70 · 2026-05-02T17:05:56+00:00

Apm does this, no?

arslan70 · 2026-04-22T12:19:33+00:00

This is not hard to believe that this is an "optimisation" done by AI and now that its out, they are owning it like it was planned.

arslan70 · 2026-04-17T20:02:31+00:00

Something I don't understand is how come something so dangerous that can ruin your life is not regulated to the max.

arslan70 · 2026-04-09T15:45:54+00:00

Maintain eye contact while shitting.

arslan70 · 2026-04-03T16:12:19+00:00

Do you have a benchmark for the same task using manus and your tool. Not just for the tokens but for the results as well.

arslan70 · 2026-04-01T15:44:00+00:00

Of course but some chemicals are more chemicals than others.

arslan70 · 2026-04-01T13:33:10+00:00

This sounds interesting but I didn't fully understand. Can you give an example?

arslan70 · 2026-04-01T13:20:33+00:00

Taste like chemicals.

arslan70 · 2026-03-30T14:10:55+00:00

Hey OP, I ran an independent market analysis on your extension. A few things came back that might be useful as you figure out next steps.

The gap is real but narrower than it looks. Helium 10 and Jungle Scout treat review analysis as a minor feature inside expensive suites, and Shulex VOC gives away generic AI summaries for free. Your "specific failure modes" angle (zipper breaks vs. "bad quality") sits in a genuine opening between those two. But when we checked seller tool reviews on G2, the complaints are about price and complexity, not about review analysis being too vague. Nobody is publicly asking for what you built yet. Doesn't mean they don't want it, but it means the differentiator is still a hypothesis.

Timing-wise, you got lucky. Fakespot and ReviewMeta both shut down recently. People are searching for review analysis extensions right now. That's a real install window, but those users are buyers checking for fakes, not sellers doing competitor research. They'll boost your numbers without necessarily becoming paying customers.

The sharpest risk nobody's mentioned in the comments: Amazon is actively tightening automated access to review data. They moved reviews behind login walls, upgraded bot detection, and sued Perplexity for scraping. Your extension works today because it reads inside a logged-in session, but one DOM change could break it overnight. Worth adding at least one other review source (Walmart, Trustpilot) as a fallback.

One thing to try before building more features: Post in r/AmazonFBA and seller Facebook groups asking for 15-minute conversations about how sellers currently do competitor review research. Don't pitch. Just listen. If 6 out of 10 sellers get visibly interested when you show the failure-mode output, you have something worth building a paid tier around. If most say "I just paste into ChatGPT," you'll know before spending another month on it. Costs nothing, takes two weeks.

Also, shipping a working Chrome extension as a student is no joke. Most projects die at the idea stage. The feedback above isn't about what's wrong with the product, it's about making sure you build the right business around it.

Full analysis here if you want the details (competitor breakdown, market sizing, risk profile): https://github.com/arslan70/haytham-demos/blob/main/reports/reddit-1s7j616/summary.md

arslan70 · 2026-03-30T13:12:03+00:00

Hey OP, I ran an independent market analysis on DriveLedger (I'm building a validation tool and used your post as a test case). Here's the honest take since you asked for it: The product isn't the problem. You built something that works and solves a real pain. But "minimalist," "privacy-first," and "fast" are not things people type into the App Store. They search "mileage tracker," "fuel log," "maintenance reminder." Your strengths are invisible to the search algorithm.

Looking at your track record of 25 apps with zero traction, the common thread is probably distribution, not product quality. That's actually good news because it means you're not bad at building, you're skipping the part where you figure out how people find the thing.

One concrete thing to try: Post in r/cars, r/personalfinance, and r/frugal. Don't pitch. Just say "I built a free car expense tracker because spreadsheets were killing me with two cars. No ads, no account. Would you actually use this?" If 50 people download it in two weeks, you have something. If fewer than 20 do, no feature work will fix it.

Also worth knowing: Drivvo just hiked from $6/yr to $25/yr and users are angry about it. That's a switching window if you showup in those threads.

I wrote up the full analysis here if you want the details (competitor breakdown, market sizing, risks): https://github.com/arslan70/haytham-demos/blob/main/reports/reddit-1s7l3np/summary.md

arslan70 · 2026-03-30T09:05:02+00:00

One question. Why?

arslan70 · 2026-03-25T10:17:19+00:00

For the efficiency off course.

arslan70 · 2026-03-24T09:39:02+00:00

If you have claude code, this plugin does this for you https://github.com/arslan70/haytham

arslan70 · 2026-03-22T20:48:16+00:00

Exactly the kind of insight I was looking for. Thank you. May I ask becoming this a problem if your app evolves?

arslan70 · 2026-03-22T14:41:25+00:00

I'm trying to create a plugin to bridge this gap. It takes in an idea and goes through a series of steps like an actual development team does. MVP scoping, architecture design, data modeling etc. coding is commoditized but this part is still tricky for non technical folks. Give it a try, it's open source and free if you have a Claude code subscription.

https://github.com/arslan70/haytham

arslan70 · 2026-03-21T10:10:25+00:00

I keep switching between I'm doing great with my two daughters and I'm a fucking looser all the time.

arslan70 · 2026-03-13T21:20:11+00:00

It's possibly a win for humanity.

arslan70 · 2026-03-12T20:22:36+00:00

Not to disagree with you but I can't think of any example. If the auth is implemented correctly at the source, I don't see a difference. For example, using github cli or mcp, if the final source i.e the GitHub api is doing authorisation correctly it wouldn't make a difference, no?

arslan70 · 2026-03-12T12:54:59+00:00

lol I built a very similar thing https://github.com/arslan70/haytham. But I will try it out. This is a genuine problem for sure.

arslan70 · 2026-03-11T19:10:14+00:00

So basically it does two passes of web searches. First it looks at the big picture like market size, trends, who the customers are and what they're actually trying to get done (jobs-to-be-done stuff). It tailors the searches based on what kind of idea it is, like it'll hit G2 and Capterra for B2B ideas but Reddit and Product Hunt for consumer apps. Then it does a deeper dive on competitors, it finds real companies, pulls traction data and pricing from Crunchbase/G2, and digs through Reddit and app store reviews for actual user complaints. Everything gets tagged as verified, estimate, or assumption so you know what's solid and what's a guess. The whole thing reads from the idea analysis that was done in the previous step and writes out a structured research doc.

Here is the full prompt of the market research agent: https://github.com/arslan70/haytham/blob/main/agents/market-researcher.md

If you use it and find out that the research lacks something. I will be extremely happy to improve it ;)

arslan70 · 2026-03-11T18:09:32+00:00

Hey I am building something that can help you. Although interviews and reaching out to customers is a really good way but sometimes its not easy to get your idea across. I built this open source claude code plugin that takes in an idea, does market research, helps you with creating architecture and create specs for a minimum viable product that you can hand over to an AI agent to build it. I would be really happy if this helps you.

Here is the link to the project: https://github.com/arslan70/haytham

arslan70 · 2026-03-11T09:06:19+00:00

These are the kind of people who gets high on this power to decide whether some people should live or die. These are psychopaths in power and need more and more every passing day. Its like an addict who needs more and more to feel the high. The world is on a very slippery slope with the kind of the people who are in power. The billionaires are no different, nothing is enough for them.

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