Dejan Dakic

I partner with leading global banks in Dubai & Switzerland and create new markets for them. Also building AI apps for whatever sparks my curiosity.

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Every conflict gets reported twice. Once by each side.

Lanes reads both, in their own languages, plus press from countries that aren't in the fight, and shows what survives all three.

Launched it this weekend. Here's how it works.

Which conflict should be lane nine?

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Next: first real visitors, first email signups, first sale.

Kill rule at 90 days: under 500 real visitors a month means I narrow the niche.

If you're a solo founder picking AI tools, I'd love brutal feedback: https://t.co/sL1UI0Ohrh

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Cost of that whole pipeline: about $5/month in API calls.

A small model extracts the facts, a search API supplies citations, and a filter drops any URL the model didn't actually get from search.

No source, no claim.

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Growth without spam: a weekly job finds public threads where people ask "which tool should I use for X?", matches each to a setup guide, and drafts a reply.

It never posts. I answer by hand, and I say it's my site.

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The pivot: what can I offer that a chatbot can't?

Freshness. Pricing pages change constantly, and most "best AI tools" lists are out of date.

So every week a job reads each tool's pricing page and recent user reports, then opens a PR. I review it in 15 minutes and merge.

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I rebuilt my side project useToolCraft this week.

Old: an AI tool finder charging $29/month. Problem: ChatGPT does that for free.

New: an AI tool library for non-technical solo founders, where every tool shows when it was last checked and the sources.

What I learned 🧵

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First shock: my GA4 "users" were bots. Datacenter traffic, half-second sessions, zero conversions.

I'd been making decisions on fake numbers. Added a bot filter. The real numbers are smaller, but at least they're real.

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Both accounts, each linked to its source: https://t.co/glSZC99m3H

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India says it killed Pakistani ex-commando Mohd Asif in Kashmir on 29 Sept.

Two days later Pakistan's army showed a man it says is Asif, alive: "I was sitting in my home."

Same name, same service record. Both can't be true.

Would settle it: DNA identification of the body.

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https://t.co/ywBgIafETp

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Was Iran behind the flydubai cockpit attack?

Trump: "based on what I'm hearing, is yes." No evidence given.
Israeli security officials: he probably acted alone, no Iranian link found.
An Iranian site: "false flag".

Would settle it: the Saudi-UAE investigation.

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One flight. Three headlines.

Jerusalem Post: "terror hijacking... foiled by Israeli passengers"
Al Jazeera: "diverted after attack on pilot"
The Guardian: "an apparent brawl"

flydubai: motives "remain unknown". Netanyahu's office, per the Guardian: not a hijacking.

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How the story moved in 48 hours.

Wednesday, Jerusalem Post: "terror hijacking".
Since then, Netanyahu to CBS: "I don't think it was a hijacking."
flydubai, on the motive: "unknown".

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Was Iran behind the flydubai cockpit attack?

Trump: "based on what I'm hearing, is yes." No evidence given.
Israeli security officials: he probably acted alone, no Iranian link found.
An Iranian site: "false flag".

Would settle it: the Saudi-UAE investigation.

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Each claim linked to its source.

The dispute: https://t.co/FDG7guh3uD
The Israeli assessment and the UAE-led investigation: https://t.co/sc6jqzCzmO

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The counts are under "Naming choices" on every edition: https://t.co/7PBWtuZeW0

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Before any AI touches a story, Lanes counts words, per lane.

This week's editions:
"Kharkov", "Odessa": 13 in Russian press. 0 anywhere else.
"Kyiv": 22 in third-party press. "Kiev": 0.
"Indian-occupied Kashmir": 6 in Pakistani press. 0 in Indian.

No model. No verdict.

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What would settle it: the flight recorders and the formal investigation. Until then, Lanes News grades the report "medium" and says which claims have one source. https://t.co/RNnq2bweWW

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What all three lanes confirm, from separate sources: FZ1073 diverted to Tabuk; both pilots were hurt; passengers and crew were forced into the cockpit; other pilots aboard landed it.

What rests on Israeli officials alone: the motive, the "terror" label, the pilot's nationality.