sleepy
reverse engineer · CTO @ we-list
Self-taught Italian dev. I reversed anti-bots by hand before AI made it easy, turned the scripts into a business, and now I run tech at we-list. I still break things online for fun.
who is sleepy
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age 10
Italian. I got my hands on a computer at ten and never really let go. Coding was the one thing that stuck. School didn't: I'm a high school dropout.
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sneakers
The sneaker frenzy pulled me back in. It started with scripts to automate checkouts and turned into reversing anti-bots by hand: PerimeterX, Akamai, Cloudflare. No AI, just devtools and patience. I found bypasses on the biggest EU sneaker sellers, like full stock on LVR through the gift flow, Prodirect's queue beaten by one URL-encoded letter, and walking past Cloudflare as Googlebot. I've worked the other side too.
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shinobi
The scripts got good enough that people started asking to buy them. That became my first business, Shinobi Scripts, the first extension to run fully request-based, and I went full time. Some of it is open source now: a PerimeterX decoder, a generator, and a Call & Collect bot.
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crypto
Crypto came in 2021. First came Sakura, my VeVe NFT bot: 20 members secured 60+ ultra rares in a single weekend, and the licences themselves sold as NFTs on OpenSea. Then Zephyr, a Solana copytrading bot with one of the earliest AI integrations for tracking and filtering wallets. Then hashes: I've released public miners like purrge and called drops before they went public. Along the way came host resolving, IP forwarding, rate-limit bypasses by swapping the origin TLS hostname, and path traversal, all before it was mainstream and Claude Code could teach it to you.
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now
CTO at we-list. I build high-frequency systems that keep 100k+ inventories in sync across 10+ platforms, where zero errors are allowed. These days I'm code-maxxing with Claude, about one PR a day.
The rest is on X: bypasses, drops, the occasional rant.
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AI writes most of it now. But if the lights go out, I can still type these by hand.
Plus things I definitely wrote once and have probably forgotten: