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seyz

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Fullstack founder. I turn bold ideas into scalable businesses.

Pioneered the internal tools market with Forest Admin, launching the first SaaS back office tool and generating millions in ARR.

I’m a creative builder at heart. Whether it’s designing intuitive product experiences, inventing innovative technical architectures, or finding unconventional growth strategies.

I bridge technology, product, and business to make things happen. I design products people love. I craft go-to-market strategies. I close strategic deals and navigate complex negotiations.

Software engineer with a bias for speed and clarity. Love building software, defining product vision, and leading high-stakes business discussions.

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seyz··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
I build a governed infrastructure for internal tools and AI agents: https://rootcx.com

Everybody uses Claude Code or AI coding tools to build internal software, but they lack the governed infrastructure layer required for enterprise trust. RootCX provides that missing foundation. We offer the security, auditability, hosting and permissioning primitives necessary to move internal software from "cool demo" to prod

seyz··on Appsmith vs. Retool vs. the Runtime Frontend – UIGen
vs rootcx (https://rootcx.com) :D
seyz··on Zen Browser
The return of Arc browser?
seyz··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
I'm working on RootCX (https://github.com/RootCX/RootCX), a platform for building and shipping internal apps and AI agents in production.

Think of it like "Claude code on Supabase", but for internal apps and AI agents.

I got tired of choosing the deployment platform, wiring up Postgres, SSO (OIDC), RBAC, audit logs, secret vaults, integrations/tools/MCP, ... from scratch every time I needed an internal tool.

seyz··on I still prefer MCP over skills
MCP versus Skills -> wrong debate. MCP versus CLI -> real debate.
seyz··on Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
Nice launch! It reminds me a lot RootCX (https://github.com/RootCX/RootCX)
seyz··on Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin
toxic.
seyz··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
This is how you gift wrap the agentic era to the open source chinese LLMs. devs don't need the best model, they need one without lawyers attached.
seyz··on Sizing chaos
the real insight here isn't that sizing is broken. Everyone knows that. It's that fixing it would require brands to admit their current customers don't match the label they've been selling them. "You're not a size 6, but size 10" is bad for business
seyz··on AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox
Including 999 using Copilot.
seyz··on 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
No phd, no funding committee, no peer review anxiety. Just curoisity and paper. Sometimes the breakthrough comes from not knowing the problem was supposed to be difficult. This is what happens when you don't tell a kid something is too hard
seyz··on Four Column ASCII (2017)
This is why Ctrl+C is 0x03 and Ctrl+G is the bell. The columns aren't arbitrary. They're the control codes with bit 6 flipped. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Best ASCII explainer I've read.
seyz··on Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
The moat here is local inference. Whisper.cpp + Metal gives you <500ms latency on M1 with the small model. no API costs + no privacy concerns. Ship that and you've got something the paid tools can't match. The UI is already solid, the edge is in going fully offline.
seyz··on The Sideprocalypse
Side projects don't die from lack of time. They die from success anxiety. Shipping means facing judgment. An eternal WIP stays safe in the "potential" zone where it can't disappoint anyone including yourself
seyz··on Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
Debugging an LLM integration without seeing the reasoning is like debugging a microservice with no logs. You end up cargo-culting prompt changes until something works, with no idea why.
seyz··on Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve
128k tokens sounds great until you see the bill
seyz··on Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code
Classic antirez. Does more in 500 LOC than most frameworks in 50k.
seyz··on I’m joining OpenAI
ok
seyz··on I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
LLM failures go viral because they trigger a "Schadenfreude" response to automation anxiety. If the oracle can't do basic logic, our jobs feel safe for another quarter.

Wrong.

seyz··on Show HN: ClawBands – Mitigating OpenClaw prompt injection via tool hooks
I built this because running OpenClaw locally felt a bit like running chmod 777 for the internet.

While Docker/VMs provide OS-level isolation, they don't solve the application-layer risk: if my agent hits a Prompt Injection on a malicious site, it can still use its authenticated tools to wipe my CRM or exfiltrate Slack data.

ClawBands is a middleware that hooks into the OpenClaw before_tool_call event loop. It enforces a synchronous blocking check before any dangerous operation (Shell Exec, File Write, etc.) is actually executed.

Ideally, this acts like sudo for your agent:

In Terminal (TTY): It pauses execution and renders an interactive prompt.

Headless: It can route approval requests via a dedicated tool (clawbands_respond) to Telegram/WhatsApp.

It's a 24h PoC written in TypeScript. I'm particularly interested in feedback on the blocking logic implementation, handling the async pause reliably in the event loop was the trickiest part.

Happy to answer any questions!

seyz··on An Update on Heroku
It's too late. I loved Heroku, but having 5+ major outages in a single year was unacceptable. The support was abysmal, and transparency was non-existent. After the Salesforce acquisition, we watched the company culture shift, getting worse and worse over the years. We were forced to migrate to AWS. Even though we were high-spend customers, the trust is gone. This post is a nice gesture of transparency, but it's way too fluffy for my taste. Heroku is dead to me, there’s no coming back from this.
seyz··on Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal
I honestly couldn't tell if the GIF was lagging or if that's the actual typing speed. I give lessons to help reach double digit WPM if you're interested
seyz··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
I’m building RootCX (https://rootcx.com). A customer "operating system" replacing dozens of SaaS tools.

As a second-time founder, I've watched the SaaS boom create an ocean of best-of-breed tools. Each solving one slice of the problem. One solving it end-to-end.

Now every company runs on a patchwork of apps, APIs, and workflow hacks just to keep customer context alive. It's insane how normalized that's become.

RootCX starts from the opposite premise: the customer is the core, not the app. Everything: CRM, support, billing, workflows, AI, ... plugs into one shared customer base. Less juggling tools, more actually running the business.

seyz··on Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
Opening the page... eyes burned... closing the page. Ouch.
seyz··on How to Give a Good Talk
TL;DR: A good conference talk delivers value by informing (what you did and why it matters), educating (portable insights), and entertaining (keeping attention) all while aligning with the community’s shared values.
seyz··on Introducing tmux-rs
> I don’t really have a good reason. It’s a hobby project. Like gardening, but with more segfaults.

Love it. You definitively deserve your +350 points!

seyz··on Sketch.systems
[Show HN]?
seyz··on Show HN: Forest Admin Cloud
Clearly, I've built dozens of admin panels and I was tired doing it… so I chose to dedicate all of my focus to resolving this issue.
seyz··on [dead]
Got it, thanks for the advice mtmail!
seyz··on Ellie – A Mastodon Client for Windows
Where is Joel?
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