r/ProgrammingPals • u/Organic_Scarcity_495 • 22d ago

20yo looking for people who build infra-level stuff — API, databases, scraping/search for AI

hey, i'm 20 and been building infra-level stuff for about 3 years now — mostly on the scraping and search side of ai. think large-scale data pipelines, api architecture, database design for search systems.

looking for other builders who work at that level and want to bounce ideas, collab, or just have an accountability group where we actually ship. not looking for "idea guys" — want people who code.

what are you working on?

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u/lorenzo1142 22d ago

what are your IP subnets, so I can firewall them on my servers

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u/Organic_Scarcity_495 22d ago

I keep rotating imposible to firewall.

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u/lorenzo1142 22d ago

be sure to use IPv6 only. it is disabled on my networks and servers.

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u/Organic_Scarcity_495 22d ago

Oh and mine too then i guess have no choice have to use ipv4 only then.

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u/lorenzo1142 22d ago

time to start posting fake content, poison the bots

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u/Organic_Scarcity_495 20d ago

no bots we use ai powered waf very tough to bypass . Anti - anti version of this https://github.com/NOTANHUMAN-00/security-ai

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u/Weekly-Dependent-554 21d ago

Three years deep on scraping and search already? That's solid mileage for 20.

I've been running large pipelines through Qoest API for a while now. Handles the proxy rotation and JS rendering without me babysitting it. Hit me up if you want to compare notes on scaling.

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u/Spiritual_Brief4915 21d ago

Appreciate it man. We’re building Helios an AI workspace/search tool for developers so they don’t have to constantly switch tabs between docs, ChatGPT, StackOverflow, etc.

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u/Organic_Scarcity_495 20d ago

ay thanks man. quest is chill for skipping the proxy headache but im mostly focused on the actual engine level guts right now. like tryna build the infra that actually powers the apis instead of just calling them ig. dealing with temporal and ebpf stuff is a massive headache but its the only way to scale agent loops without everything breaking lol. definitely down to swap notes on proxy rotatoin and scaling tho, hmu whenever.

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u/Public_Quiet_3624 21d ago

Hey I’m more on the marketing side . I help connect builders with customers instead of building infra myself. Are you also looking for a marketing guy? you can reach out to me, I can provide intent based US business leads (companies already actively looking for services), so you’d be selling to people who actually want what you’re building.

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u/kau_pau 19d ago

oooh could you help me out? i have experience shipping agents + infra + product at big tech and big yc startups, looking to build for businesses myself

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u/Ibz04 21d ago

I’m 20 too, working on AI inference, vision models etc

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u/Interro-ai 21d ago

Am scraping out data related job interviews like MAANG but currently using SAAS scrapegraphAi