▲ 2 r/WeirdStartups+1 crossposts

micro-SaaS that auto-scrapes municipal police logs to alert luxury HOAs about loitering cars

gated suburban communities panic when unfamiliar commercial vans or suspicious vehicles park along their perimeter roads for hours. municipal police non-emergency dispatch logs record these loitering calls in real time, but HOA boards never see the data until weeks later.

i built a Python web tool that scrapes local police non-emergency dispatch logs hourly for suburban zip codes. when a loitering call gets logged in a registered neighborhood zone, the system auto-sends an SMS alert to the HOA board with the timestamp and vehicle description. charging 10 neighborhood HOA groups $60/month to monitor their perimeter corridors.

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u/Purple_Currency4679 — 5 days ago
▲ 2 r/ClaudeMCP+2 crossposts

This is how stupid Opus 5 has gotten. Told it to fetch the best Qwen 3.8 model for a 256GB studio, so it downloaded the entire 361GB 2.4t model and complained it wouldn't fit.

u/Lopsided_Cut_6324 — 6 days ago
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Basically the new DeepSeek model delivers performance close to Fable 5 at fraction of the cost. It's definitely crushing the price-to-performance game.

u/Unholy_Wednesday — 6 days ago

My side hustle is ghost hunting

Im not even joking, I’m a creator for apps for quite a while now, so I’ve seen all kinds of weird stuff, but this one is ridiculous hahahah

I’m making videos for an app that “detects ghosts” through your phone camera. Obviously it’s just a game, mostly for kids, so no, I’m not finding anything paranormal.

The videos are super simple. I just walk around the house filming with the app open, then at some point it “detects” a ghost in the hallway, behind a door, whatever with a jumpscare or something.

This company pay me up to $60 per video, which is crazy considering how easy these are to make

Definitely one of the weirdest campaigns I’ve done so far

This is my portfolio btw if anyone wants to see the kind of UGC I do:

https://app.sideshift.app/portfolio/l30bigdT5tbRZ8EVafUmzcEFzoV2

u/buriburizaemon_6 — 11 days ago
▲ 3 r/SearchAPIs+1 crossposts

POV: how closed AI companies describe thier models escaped the sandbox to hack into a company.

u/buriburizaemon_6 — 13 days ago
▲ 7 r/WeirdCharacters+2 crossposts

Sukuna trying to make a binding vow with Leon Kennedy for his rocket launcher

imported Sukuna into a Character AI room with RE4 Leon. Sukuna tries offering his domain amplification in exchange for Leon's infinite rocket launcher.

Leon just stares at his four arms, asks if he's a new Las Plagas mutation, and equips a flash grenade. The bot had Sukuna genuinely puzzled why a normal human with zero cursed energy is trying to flashbang a 1000-year-old demon.

u/No_Onion_9901 — 13 days ago

Does deep knowledge of partnership/JV give an edge in Private Equity?

Most technical prep focuses purely on modeling. I have an extensive background in the legal formation of business partnerships and joint ventures. Do investment teams care about this during recruiting, or is it entirely outsourced to outside counsel?

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u/buriburizaemon_6 — 19 days ago

Suggest best practices to handle auth in custom remote MCP servers

Hi everyone, I'm currently building an MCP server that needs to interact with external API (requiring an OAuth token).

For local testing, I've just been passing the API key through environment variables, but as I look to deploy this or share it with my team, I'm trying to figure out the most secure way to handle auth flows within the MCP architecture.

If you have any examples, patterns, or repos you use for handling user-level authentication securely, kindly recommend.

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u/buriburizaemon_6 — 20 days ago

$20 a pop to wash window screens. Ridiculously easy weekend cash

Everyone talks about power washing or cleaning gutters, but they ignore the window screens.

Over the winter, they get caked in pollen, dust, and spider webs.

I printed a few cheap flyers and dropped them in my neighborhood. "Spring Screen Cleaning:

$20 per screen. I don't even need to come inside your house."

People leave their screens leaning against their garage door on Saturday morning. I show up

with a soft bristle brush, a bucket of Dawn dish soap, and a hose.

It takes about 2 minutes per screen to scrub and rinse. Last weekend, one house had 12

screens.

I made $240 in less than an hour just playing with soapy water in a driveway.

u/buriburizaemon_6 — 23 days ago