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Hi Fico, I’m Samuel!
This isn’t really a love letter, more like a job application 🤣.. but I believe going the extra mile is what makes exceptional people win.
I started coding in high school, when limited edition sneakers were a big thing, they usually sold out within a few seconds of being released.
I started learning JavaScript to build my own bots that would buy the sneakers I wanted, so I could resell them.
Later I joined my friends to build Ganesh, an automated sneaker bot that was used by over 1,500 other users at its peak and our users purchased more than $30 million worth of sneakers before the hype died down.
I loved reverse-engineering complex apps and APIs, taking them apart until I know exactly how they work.
Funny enough, after building Ganesh, a friend of mine who worked at a big European sneaker retailer asked me to help them build anti-bot protection for their raffle system.
I learned a lot about the backend and how to balance heavy load and concurrency, so things stay fast when traffic spikes.
I work AI-first: I write my own system so my agents like Claude Code, Cursor and Grok bot build in parallel, while I review the running app.
My latest project is Keta AI (opens in a new tab). I talk more about it in #projects section.
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I’m based in 
I traveled a lot over the last three years, but I don’t travel much anymore. Flighty (opens in a new tab) is still one of my favorite (and best designed) apps ever, so I pinned my stats from it to the wall.
These days I run more than I fly. I’m part of Founders Running Club in Paris.
I figured that working AI-first is the best and only way to build in 2026. My “favorite new thing” is Reason Network where I manage agents that work across my MacBook, my Mac Studio and in the cloud.
The Reason Network links my agents peer-to-peer, so a session on one machine can ask another for what it needs.
/better-interface/breakThis page was built this way. Flip Blueprint Mode to see the seams.
I run a small two-person software studio (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab) with a close friend, we work on our own projects whenever we have time or think of an idea for something that we or other people could use.
An unlimited AI video generator: take a clip’s motion and recast it with your own characters, products or clothes.
Where it started: in high school I wrote Ganesh, a bot to buy limited sneaker drops, and it became a product people paid for.
Private solvers for DataDome, Akamai and Kasada, which we sold per request, only to scraping services.
We used to offer these APIs and services on our Discord server (opens in a new tab).
I worked on internal anti-bot protection for Footshop, freelance.
Claude Code, Grok bot and Cursor are linked peer-to-peer on the Reason Network (opens in a new tab), so they talk directly, also here’s some of my favorite skills.
npx skills add benjitaylor/
My friend, and the design engineer whose details I study most.
His tools, Agentation and Stageshow, are part of how I work every day.
How the pipeline demo on this page gets made: faux UI, built and filmed by agents.
Benji’s studio behind Honk and Family: a whole company built around craft.
The first ever app where I fell in love with its design, interactions and user experience.
My Mac and iPhone are my favorite products I ever owned.
My best friend on my travels, I love the design behind their products.
The best yacht ever designed.
The best car ever designed.
“Someone who can ship fast and think deeply about the product.”
I quoted this line from your job post because it stuck with me. With a close friend I run a small studio where we build our own products from 0 to 1, like Keta AI, our AI video generator, so I’m used to owning everything from the data side to the UI.
When we built Ganesh, the whole project ran on scraping and request automation that mimicked a real browser as closely as possible. Our users were running tens of thousands of active tasks, monitoring product availability across many sites at once.
On JavaScript the app started to freeze, so we moved to Python for multithreading and better performance, then to Go, where every task is a goroutine that costs a few kilobytes and runs across every CPU core, with no GIL in the way. That’s where I learned how to scrape at scale and push millions of requests through.
thanks for reading this far!
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