Israel Adelaja

19 // building something new // created @pictra_ai, @mitsu_app // prev. cybersec @code4rena, research @cot_research

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

I PLACED TOP 5 at the sydney @MistralAI hackathon!

over the weekend 150+ hackers competed in sydney to build using Mistral's tech, and the top 5 teams got to present on stage. i was the only solo hacker in the top 5, which still feels surreal.

i built Reflex, it uses Ministral to monitor your customer communication channels (like Discord) for feature requests and bug reports, then uses Mistral Vibe to make the code changes, opens a pull request, notifies your team on Telegram, and follows up with the user once the issue has been resolved.

this was also my first hackathon in two years. it's wild how differently i work now compared to back then, AI coding tools have genuinely changed the way i build.

big thanks to @UNSWFounders and @HackIterate for putting it together, and to everyone who came along and made it such a good weekend.

Reflex is live if you want to try it out, i'll put the link in the comments.

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@jerrydotxyz interested :)

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@benhylak @ycombinator took monitoring the situation to a whole new level

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

we applied to @fdotinc off season II and got rejected.

we did land an interview though, a first for us across any program we've applied to so far. biggest takeaway for us is that we need to communicate what we're building way better.

we're gonna keep pushing though, because we truly believe in what we're building.

thank you @ruslanjabari for the opportunity :)

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

another rejection. this time from @fdotinc canopy. it sucks, but it is what it is.

back to work.

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@ideogram_ai cookin🧑‍🍳

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@ycombinator @designtday @cyruskellyadl @s43stha @David_l_mcd1 Let’s goo! 🔥🔥

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@nhagianis @michellewang857 im not gonna look back in my 30s and think "man i should have gone to more parties". i would argue the opposite in that you don't want to regret in your 30s what you could have accomplished if u locked in earlier. life is too short.

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@ivanburazin @daytonaio makes sense :)

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@catboosted my problem with the interview clip wasn't the 7 days a week but the 3-4 hours of sleep. i don't think u can do any meaningful work on consistent low sleep. even elon gets 6 hours.

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@frankdotlee plot twist: she was actually a VC in disguise

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@threepointone agent experience @Codydearkland

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@Scobleizer @BigBrainBizness that's insane! i had no idea you've been doing this video format for so long

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@Scobleizer @BigBrainBizness no way, you're the one recording?

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@Loganullyott would love to attend :)

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

lets go! just got approved for @Hetzner_Online first try :)

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@RaeAlisa_ @lucent_ai codex pro. help a fellow aussie out 🫡

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@XiJin12 LETS GO! 🔥

[Jason Jin @XiJin12]

We are launching Funky today!

The frontier model isn't supposed to do everything. We should let it fan out 100 cheap, fast sub-agents to do the repetitive/tedious work.

Funky is a service that let you spin up hundreds of sub-agents in a second.

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@zamdoteth what’s ur definition of a good product?

[Israel Adelaja @issyadelaja]

@catboosted it was a means to an end no? to keep airbnb alive.