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2026-04-28 13:30
I shipped an AI pipeline in a month that reads Reddit, HN, and X for startup ideas. The hardest part wasn't the AI.
For the last month I've been building MonetScope — a pipeline that crawls Reddit, Hacker News, and X, reads what real people are complaining about, and surfaces the complaints as scored startup opportunities.
Going in, I assumed the hard part would be the AI layer. You know the story: prompt engineering, structured output, temperature tuning. That's where the demos happen and where most of the bl...