Andres Moratinos

Building apps, breaking bugs, and occasionally breaking my own code. 🚀 | Sharing my dev journey one line of code at a time. Founder of Nothing right now.

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The problem today: hiring often relies on diplomas, resumes, and who you know — not what you can actually do. Many talented people get overlooked because they lack “status” or connections. SkillProof flips this by focusing only on proven skills through real, measurable work.

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Thinking about building SkillProof, a merit-based platform where you prove your skills by completing real challenges (coding, design, AI...). No CVs, no followers, just objective scores. Like GitHub + HackerRank + LinkedIn for the post-CV era. Would you use it? Thoughts? +++

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Companies post challenges related to the job position, and those with the best results or highest scores move forward in the application process. Companies pay to access the platform; it’s free for users. Everyone can view rankings and challenges but no other users profiles. +++

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Make 10 people (not rich) start a business (ideally, since YT CPM is high) or take on a challenge (like getting fit or running a marathon/Ironman). Tell them that whoever achieves the goal first wins $10K. You document their entire journey, posting their progress and training, generating YouTube revenue. After a full series, you show them competing against each other.

Plot twist: If they reach the goal, they get $1K; the winner gets $10K. If they fail, they get nothing.

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@levelsio @404mediaco I imagine your life itself must feel like a game right now.

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@marclou Nice promo

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@d4m1n I would personnally go crazy.
Any tips on how to keep sanity?

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@QTalksalot Delete TikTok.

Delete Instagram.

They're destroying your brain

But X?

That’s where I am.

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@IAmAaronWill Claude is cool too...

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@d4m1n You paid more in taxes than I evaded on what my grandma gave me. Fair trade.

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I want to take a step with my app, what should I do? I was thinking about some kind of steganography but for videos and maybe even for audio...

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@LeahTCodes Taxes

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Imagine being a journalist in a place where information is controlled. Instead of sending risky messages, you could hide them inside an image and share them normally. No one would ever know.

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Alright, so now that this thing works, I’m thinking about actual uses. Privacy is a big one—sometimes you just want to send information without making it obvious.

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The app is actually working. I can hide and extract text, files, whatever, and it all runs offline. Feels crazy that I just built this from scratch. Adding it to my portfolio now.

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Just added encryption. Now you need a password to extract the hidden data. Even if someone suspects there’s something inside, they can’t do anything without the right key. This feels so much more powerful now.

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Encryption is next. Right now, anyone who extracts the data can read it. Adding a password system so even if someone finds the hidden message, they won’t be able to decrypt it without the key.

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It worked. Just embedded a PDF inside an image, sent it to my other computer, extracted it, and opened it. The file is fully intact. This is insane. It’s like passing secret messages through normal pictures.

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Trying something crazy—hiding an actual file inside an image. If this works, I could embed PDFs, zip files, anything. The challenge is keeping the image size reasonable. Need to make sure it doesn’t break.

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Just wrote the first version of the decoder. If even one bit is off, the whole message is unreadable, so it has to be precise. Just tested it, and I can extract hidden text flawlessly. Feels so satisfying.