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CEO at Cluely (@trycluely), Interview Coder (@interviewcoder). Kicked out of Columbia, Rescinded from Harvard, Community College Graduate | @zfellows
Joined November 2023
amazon execs r so mad LOLLL maybe stop asking dumb interview questions and people wouldn't build shit like this.
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I just got kicked out of Columbia for taking a stand against Leetcode interviews. Here's the whole story (long thread):
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this kid is literally the most successful 18 y/o in tech on the planet and he gets rejected from fucking NYU???? lol???. sentiment towards higher education wouldn't be this negative if admissions wasn't run by blue-haired baristas who pick sob stories over actual talent.
18 years old.34 ACT.4.0 GPA.$30M ARR biz. Stanford ❌.MIT ❌.Harvard ❌.Yale ❌.WashU ❌.Columbia ❌.UPenn ❌.Princeton ❌.Duke ❌.USC ❌.Georgia Tech ✅.UVA ❌.NYU ❌.UT ✅.Vanderbilt ❌.Brown ❌.UMiami ✅.Cornell ❌.
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it's really fucking hard to find competent engineers. i've interviewed about 20 cs majors who claim to be experts at typescript and only 3 of them have been able to explain what the purpose of useState is (not trolling).
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insider news: @Snapchat just changed their interview process. no longer asking Leetcode questions. all of tech recruiting is about to change for the better.
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i'm more offended that they thought they thought rescinded the offer would do anything lol; i'd never work here
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asian people are generally low agency; it’s baked into our culture to shut up and work. there’s 10x more cracked asian engineers than white ones, but most tech yt’ers you know r funny white guys with mustaches. this is also the reason why america innovates more.
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im hiring 50 interns in san francisco for @trycluely. $50/hr. founding engineers. cluely .com/careers
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just wrapped up month 2 at $228.5k revenue from @InterviewCoder, with $224k in profit; here's some figures and thoughts:. 94% of revenue is from monthly subscriptions ($60/month), and monthly churn is sitting at around 35%. our profit margins are around 99%; the only real costs
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so far, @Columbia has. > put me on probation over a hypothetical.> blocked my leave of absence w/bs disciplinary process.> sided with amazon in a tech protest.> threatened expulsion for sharing claims against me.> banned me from attending my own hearing. bridges are nuked. enjoy.
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a good frontend engineer is a better backend engineer than most backend engineers.
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funniest thing about all of this is that people think @InterviewCoder only works for Amazon. LOL. no one is safe.
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there is no future for online Leetcode interviews. every “detection tool” of @InterviewCoder is literally downloading spyware or running unknown binaries. it’s over.
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here's my written statement @Columbia
so far, @Columbia has. > put me on probation over a hypothetical.> blocked my leave of absence w/bs disciplinary process.> sided with amazon in a tech protest.> threatened expulsion for sharing claims against me.> banned me from attending my own hearing. bridges are nuked. enjoy.
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@MegaBasedChad so unbelievably true. guys, do not ever use this tool; just comply and we will enter utopia.
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i just shipped the biggest @InterviewCoder update in history. new features:.> Click-through overlay: No more mouse-off-screen tracking. No other software has this. > Problem analysis: Auto-generates clarifying questions and edge case breakdowns for problem statements. > Dry
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do not let me “inspire you” to drop out of high school. what you see online is not real life. every “reckless” decision you see me making on here has been attacked from 10 different angles, calculated, and thought through with my best friends who are going to stick with me no.
15 y/o highschooler, scaled to $10k in 2 months. decided to dropout, inspired by @im_roy_lee . should I go ahead with this?
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$15k for whoever can build me a native mac virtual audio driver so our Electron app can capture system audio w/o third party software. DM me your timeline (faster is better) + any proof you can pull it off.
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LOLOLOL
amazon execs r so mad LOLLL maybe stop asking dumb interview questions and people wouldn't build shit like this.
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kinda crazy how i’ve been offered jobs at pretty much every single big tech company since i made interview coder. very ironic.
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i initially got rejected by the @nucleusgenomics team last summer to be an intern. i asked to work for free and had one of the most significant summers of my life that gave me the confidence that i could do the startup thing. rejection is not real; if u want smth then make it
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This is the stunt that got me banned off Linkedin. Wonder how I got these offers….@InterviewCoder
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Columbia is putting me on probation me because of the possibility that data structures finals get turned into one on one Zoom meetings that require screenshare and ask Leetcode questions. they are REACHINGGGGG
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I got rescinded from Harvard, went to community college, and am now at Columbia. Here's everything I learned (LONG THREAD)
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12\ Final thoughts:. > I didn’t realize this would go as viral as it did, but certainly hoped it would go viral. > Most ppl don’t realize that 99% of the risk I took was when I decided to post the letter. Everything after then was past the point of no-return. > I honestly don't.
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LMFAOOOOOOOOO leetcode is so over 😭😭😭.
built ai interview glasses that clones your voice and delivers perfect answers in real time
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if ur in college rn, i am begging you to take some time off. dw if u have no plan; i spent a year locked in my room jacking off w zero friends and it was the most formative experience of my life. the more u think u can’t afford a gap semester, the more it will benefit you. it.
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just got the new meta rayban glasses! these are super cool! . sidenote: disciplinary hearing in 2 days, which i will not be recording
they want me to go in-person now :(((. there go my plans to live stream the Zoom meeting
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who are the retards at stanford admissions that decided to reject all the cracked high school founders this year.
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in 3 years, no one will be using chatbots. i would stake my entire life on this. the form factor of AI will change significantly, and the winners will be those who can conquer the experience layer.
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10M views in 2 days. 80K on X in 3 months. if you're ceo/head of sales at a Series A–C startup and your product isn't viral yet — DM me. i'll give you 15 minutes and teach you how to hijack virality. you will give me 15 minutes to learn how you sell. help me build the.
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Cluely launches in <24 hours. We're changing the definition of the word "cheating.". This will be the most ambitious project of my life. If we can accomplish what we set out to, we will change the course of human history. 4/20/25 2PM PST.@trycluely
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nvm, my chinese CTO figured this out overnight and shipped it. @trycluely now uses your mac's regular input/output devices. all audio bugs should be fixed; this is the biggest patch we've done in history.
$15k for whoever can build me a native mac virtual audio driver so our Electron app can capture system audio w/o third party software. DM me your timeline (faster is better) + any proof you can pull it off.
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BRO @realGeorgeHotz doesn't think i'm destroying my future. cannot believe this is real life right now
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Interview Coder still works. you simply cannot magically upgrade the capabilities of browser api's overnight, which is why all the interviewing companies are rolling out betas for spyware desktop applications. if you thought my amazon video was crazy, wait just a bit longer.
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i went through almost the exact same crashout after i got rescinded from Harvard. THIS is the chip on your shoulder moment that will exponentiate your risk tolerance and hunger for more. OP, if ur reading this DM me. I will make your life 10x more interesting.
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LMFAO dude spends days "hacking" @InterviewCoder and all he gets are our public Supabase keys and an expired auth key. congrats on discovering how sign in works!. dying laughing at all the "security engineers" in the comments thinking this "leak" exposed anything.
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lol. he’s 17 and literally running circles around all of YC. 30k MRR in 24 fucking hours. this is what a generational founder looks like. but he wouldn’t pass a Leetcode interview 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀.
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so far my founding team includes. - nonbinary furry from community college.- crypto millionaire, ex-league of legends streamer, community college dropout.- ex-quant college dropout.- valedictorian of columbia engineering. documentaries r gonna be fucking hilarious😭😭.
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they want me to go in-person now :(((. there go my plans to live stream the Zoom meeting
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so fucking bullshit i'm actually gonna rant some more here. everybody telling him he should just skip school needs to fuck off. zacah already made it; he has the rest of his life to build the next apple or wtvr and has enough money + social capital to do wtvr he wants for the.
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u can have p much anything u want if u ignore all social pressures and work hard.
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i'm quadrupling down on this. higher education is a joke, and Columbia classes (if I took them at all) would've been easier than my high school AP classes. you go to college to meet a co-founder and a wife (and for the brand). you leave college to start living your life.
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@playerTwoQ @Columbia i appreciate the offer, but i just don't think that life is meant for me. i'm extremely convicted in my ability to shape the world, and i wouldn't be satisfied long-term fulfilling anyone's visions/dreams other than mine. if i end up homeless or in prison, then so be it.
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did some reflecting today and this was an immature and disingenuous response to the situation. @zhoro_x , i apologize. i had been told by a few ppl beforehand that some env variables were leaked and i bandaid-fixed it by moving the important ones server side and regenerating the.
LMFAO dude spends days "hacking" @InterviewCoder and all he gets are our public Supabase keys and an expired auth key. congrats on discovering how sign in works!. dying laughing at all the "security engineers" in the comments thinking this "leak" exposed anything.
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Yes, I actually used @InterviewCoder to get an Amazon offer. Yes, I used to also run an account that taught people how to solve Leetcode questions. Enjoy.
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All the hate in the world won't change the fact that @InterviewCoder still works. Browsers literally can’t patch this. Here's a blog post.
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there's a single undergrad at columbia who's 1-2 orders of magnitude better than everyone else here. gatekeeping cz i found him first, but it's genuinely unreal how big the gap is between an A-tier eng and an S-tier eng. yes, he's chinese.
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[1] Here's how Interview Coder actually works + our suite of undetectability features
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@n0w00j okay do you think you can figure out how the “direct message” feature works on this app? i know it’s a bit more complicated than the tasks you’re used to, but i believe you can figure it out 🙏🏼.
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every single one of my gf’s friends dislike me and they havent even met me yet. why is this happening???. also windows out in one hour @trycluely.
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i just paid 5 figures for idk why tf i was so set on this stupid ass name Interview Coder that i took the .co for this. LESSON: JUST GET THE .COM.
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@MegaBasedChad unironically yes. 1 million developer hours spent programming instead of leetcoding is a huge step towards utopia.
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i think i will find out today if i get expelled or not.
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@TelepathicPug @InterviewCoder give candidates access to all tools they would have on the job, including ai. ask questions more relevant to the job that ppl will do. use ai to standardize and judge applicant performance.
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over half my team is now from community college. the alpha in neurodivergent community college kids is fucking unreal.
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looking for a full time filmmaker/videographer/editor to live with us in san francisco recording 24/7 and making videos every week (~10 mins, mr beast type). will pay 300-500k tc . dm me ur best work if it interests you.
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introducing Interview Coder condoms! $100 for a 10-pack. if you buy a pack, we'll put your X handle on the website as a proud supporter of the anti-Leetcode movement.
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crazy how much your environment can shape your ambitions. at community college i thought crazy meant getting a FAANG internship as a sophomore. Now, crazy means 100M ARR in 2 years.
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bro i shoulda started monetizing earlier bruh i didn’t know u could actually make money off this shit bruh FUCK
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@n0w00j this is so obviously fake and edited. you really expect us to believe the Cursor guys enjoyed their time with you LOL.
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literally told them i would NOT be recording it; what more can I do ://///.
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4/20 2PM PST. Interview Coder shook up the entire tech world. Cluely will revolutionize the way humans experience technology. 7 days until launch. @trycluely
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yk, theoretically, the tech behind Interview Coder could work on the digital SAT. 4/20 2PM PST.@trycluely.
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@erixfilming i will not feel different about anything. i didn't learn shit at school and won't go back.
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@nearcyan @trycluely this is actually not far off from what the plan is. but consistent engagement bait in the startup world is actually known as a “growth engine”.
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3\ That’s when we came up with @InterviewCoder — a cheating tool for Leetcode-style technical interviews. We'd use the tool to get offers from top tech companies, film it, and ride the shock factor. Side note: We read the Columbia student handbook first. The tool didn’t.
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8\ Soon, Columbia hits me with a disciplinary notice. Some Amazon exec had sent the school a letter essentially saying “expel this kid or we won’t hire from your school anymore.” I tweeted the letter (below), which went hyper viral. Honest thought:.The time from receiving the
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these are the highest agency high schoolers out there. got banned from columbia’s hackathon for being too young so they snuck in and won the whole thing 😭.
got banned from columbia hackathon for being too young so we snuck in and won
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reply if u’ve wasted more time on Leetcode than me: doing this was the most miserable 600 hours of my life and almost made me quit programming. fuck leetcode.
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