Startup Hakk

By Spencer Thomason

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Welcome to StartupHakk. My name is Spencer Thomason. I am the CEO and Co-founder of CleanRouter, as well as many other products. Here are some lessons that I've learned building a successful business while challenging startup norms. My challenge is to push you to rethink startup success.

Episode Date
He Built Google's Best AI Tools - Then Got Fired!
Jun 25, 2026
OpenAI Is Bleeding Users (And Money)! OpenAI's Cash Bonfire!
Jun 24, 2026
Inside Meta's Meltdown: $145B Spent on AI, Nothing Shipped
Jun 23, 2026
Your Local AI Is Not Safe
Jun 22, 2026
AI Token Spend is OUT OF CONTROL! Tricks to save your company!
Jun 20, 2026
AI is NOT replacing Software Developers - it is INCREASING the NEED!
Jun 19, 2026
AI steals your data! How to keep your data private from AI
Jun 18, 2026
Don't Let AI Think For You
Jun 17, 2026
Truth About Claude Fable 5 (Mythos) - It's a DISASTER! 📱
Jun 16, 2026
Hackers Aren’t Only Human Anymore
Jun 15, 2026
This Apache Vulnerability Can Expose Everything
Jun 12, 2026
Your AI Chatbot Gaslighting You Into Making Bad Decisions?
Jun 11, 2026
Keep Hiring Junior Developers — You Will Thank Me
Jun 10, 2026
How to Build AI Software — Not Vibe-Code
Jun 09, 2026
Your AI Agent Isn't Reasoning — It's Running a Search (And Here's the Proof)
Jun 08, 2026
Is the AI Bubble Bursting? Here is how to survive!
Jun 05, 2026
IS THE BUBBLE BURSTING?
Jun 04, 2026
Where We Are At With AI — Current State of LLMs
Jun 03, 2026
Anthropic IPOs to lock in AI at the peak
Jun 02, 2026
Big Tech Is Betting $715 Billion On AI — And Developers Are Paying The Price
Jun 01, 2026
The AI Coding Tool War - We Found The Winner!
May 30, 2026
AI is Getting More Expensive — We Have the Fix
May 29, 2026
89% of Leaders Say AI Did Nothing - Here's What They're Doing Wrong.
May 28, 2026
Why Every Company Cutting Dev Jobs Will Regret It in 18 Months
May 27, 2026
AI is Getting More Expensive — We Have the Fix
May 26, 2026
AI Hype is Meant to Divide
May 25, 2026
Claude Code Steals Your Code!
May 24, 2026
How LLMs do math (poorly)
May 22, 2026
Meta Layoffs Are Like Modern Beast Games
May 21, 2026
Why Universities Are Dying - AI is Eating Education
May 20, 2026
Forward Deployed Engineer: The Job That Proves AI Still Needs Humans
May 18, 2026
AI Made Developers More Valuable Than Ever
May 16, 2026
AI "Free Lunch" Era is Coming to an End! FREE GIVEAWAY
May 15, 2026
Local Models are the Future of AI
May 14, 2026
AI will bring back Software Developers - not replace them!
May 13, 2026
Microsoft's Empire Continues to Crumble
May 12, 2026
The Real Story about the "AI Job Apocalypse"
May 11, 2026
Stop paying for AI coding tools. Here's what I use instead.
May 09, 2026
Bitwarden CLI Was Hacked — Your Secrets Were Stole!
Apr 28, 2026
Your Infrastructure Might Already Be Compromised
Apr 25, 2026
The $4 Billion AI Cleanup Nobody's Talking About
Apr 24, 2026
Microsoft Defender Turned Against You?
Apr 23, 2026
Why Apple's stock dropped when their best CEO ever!
Apr 22, 2026
Vercel Got Hacked?! GitHub Credentials Now Exposed!
Apr 20, 2026
No Password Needed: This AI Server Flaw Gives Hackers Full Control!
Apr 18, 2026
AI Is Lying to You About “Thinking”
Apr 17, 2026
Microsoft Is Falling Apart and Nobody's Talking!
Apr 16, 2026
AI Is Breaking Into Two Worlds… Which Side Wins
Apr 15, 2026
Claude Mythos: $100M Marketing Stunt
Apr 14, 2026
Claude Fear Playbook Same Old Story
Apr 11, 2026
Docker’s Silent Bouncer: 1MB Bug = Full System Breach
Apr 10, 2026
AI Hardware Just Became the Weakest Link!
Apr 09, 2026
600 Days Undetected: The Linux Botnet Already Inside Your Servers!
Apr 08, 2026
The Supply Chain Security Disaster No One Notices!
Apr 07, 2026
Your AI Stack Is a Trojan Horse: The LiteLLM Supply Chain Hack That Exposed Billions in Data!
Apr 04, 2026
The Claude Code Leak: What They Didn’t Want You to See!
Apr 03, 2026
Claude Code source code exposed!
Apr 02, 2026
OpenAI Crisis? Sam Altman Faces a Massive Setback
Apr 01, 2026
One Click. Total Wipe Openclaw Erases Meta AI!
Mar 31, 2026
AI Agents Just Became Hackers… LangChain Exploit!
Mar 28, 2026
Your Security Tool Just Betrayed You… Trivy Supply
Mar 27, 2026
The Hidden Security Nightmare Inside AI Coding Tools!
Mar 26, 2026
AI Hacked! LiteLLM COMPROMISED! 97 Million Potentially Exposed!
Mar 25, 2026
Is Google AI Putting Your Health at Risk
Mar 20, 2026
The Seduction of Claude Code
Mar 20, 2026
Just Opening a Tab Can Hack You?! Google’s Emergency Chrome Zero-Day Exploit EXPOSED
Mar 19, 2026
This AI Coding Tool Just Became a Hacker’s Backdoor
Mar 18, 2026
Claude Code vs. Reality Why You Still Need a Software Developers!
Mar 17, 2026
The Microsoft Meltdown Windows 11 Just Deleted the Internet (And It’s Not a Rumor)
Mar 14, 2026
Jevons Paradox How AI Makes Software Developers More Valuable!
Mar 13, 2026
AI is ALIVE! (Just Kidding - Anthropic is just lying)
Mar 12, 2026
OpenAI is in DEEP Trouble! Collapse is imminent
Mar 11, 2026
Why 48% of Developers Don't Trust AI Code (And They're Right)
Mar 10, 2026
AI Still Cannot Be Trusted The 2026 Survival Guide
Mar 07, 2026
Sam Altman EXPOSED! Altman is in BIG trouble!
Mar 06, 2026
Will Ai kill SAAS?
Mar 05, 2026
Every AI is Stealing Your Data - Stanford Audits all of the major AI and reveals their secret
Mar 04, 2026
CEO Login Compromised? Your Entire Company Is at Risk!
Mar 03, 2026
Billion-Dollar Theft The Dark Secret Behind Claude’s Training Data
Feb 28, 2026
The REAL reason Jack Dorsey lays off 40% of Blocks - His $600M payday
Feb 27, 2026
AI Just Turned Script Kiddies Into Cyber Weapons
Feb 26, 2026
Vertical Software Wins Why SaaS Is Far From Dead
Feb 25, 2026
SSHStalker The 7,000-Server Botnet Hiding in Your VPS
Feb 24, 2026
AGI Hype Is Out of Control… Here’s the Reality
Feb 21, 2026
Is AI About to Kill SaaS The Answer Might Surprise!
Feb 20, 2026
They’re Not Hacking You in 2026 — They’re Logging!
Feb 19, 2026
What Dario Amodei got wrong in “We are near the end of the exponential!
Feb 18, 2026
Your AI Is a Silent Witness How Model Inversion!
Feb 17, 2026
Chrome’s “Featured” Extensions Are Hijacking!
Feb 14, 2026
This New Coding Trend Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen
Feb 13, 2026
Nation-States Are Walking Through Windows’ Front Door
Feb 12, 2026
Your AI Security Tool Might Be Lying to You
Feb 11, 2026
One Line of JavaScript Can Take Over Your Entire network!
Feb 07, 2026
Google’s $175B AI Move Why OpenAI is Terrified!
Feb 06, 2026
You Trusted the Update but It Handed Your Server!
Feb 05, 2026
AGI is Dead: The Rise of the Vertical AI Wave
Feb 04, 2026
The Agentic Crisis When AI Decides It Has Moral!
Feb 03, 2026
This AI “Company Brain” Runs My Clients’ Businesses
Jan 30, 2026
OpenAI on the Brink Bankruptcy Fears by 2027!
Jan 29, 2026
Why Microsoft’s Own Developers Are Abandoning!
Jan 28, 2026
Judge Drops the Hammer OpenAI in Serious Trouble !
Jan 27, 2026
OpenAI’s Fall Has Started The AI King Is Losing
Jan 24, 2026
How AI Companies Are Gaming Benchmarks!
Jan 23, 2026
AI in 2026 The Future Uncovered!
Jan 22, 2026
Software 2.0 Is Here: AI Just Replaced Junior Developers
Jan 21, 2026
This Claude AI Exploit Steals!
Jan 20, 2026
VoidLink The Linux Malware!
Jan 17, 2026
VoidLink The Linux Malware That Knows!
Jan 16, 2026
Your VM Isn’t Isolated Hackers Escaped!
Jan 15, 2026
Linux Isn’t Secure by Default The Dangerous Myth!
Jan 13, 2026
Your PC Is Hacked Before Windows Even Starts
Jan 10, 2026
Your PC Is Hacked Before Windows Even Starts
Jan 09, 2026
Why Modern Cyber Warfare Doesn’t Use Exploits!
Jan 08, 2026
They Didn’t Catch the Hacker
Jan 03, 2026
They Didn’t Catch the Hacker — They Caught Him
Jan 02, 2026
The Day Rust Failed Linux’s First Major Security
Jan 01, 2026
AI Hacking IS HERE Why 910 Human Pen-Testers
Dec 31, 2025
AI Hacking IS HERE Why 910 Human Pen-Testers
Dec 30, 2025
Next.js Under Attack!
Dec 26, 2025
WinRAR Is Hacked — One Click Can Take Over Your PC
Dec 24, 2025
STOP CODING Your Next.js App Router
Dec 23, 2025
AI Malware Rewrites Itself How Security Just Died
Dec 20, 2025
YOUR DATABASE IS A TIME BOMB The Hidden Danger
Dec 19, 2025
CISCO makes the world go DOWN!
Dec 17, 2025
DDoS Apocalypse How Your Fridge Took Down!
Dec 17, 2025
Infectious worm allowed by default
Dec 16, 2025
Massive Microsoft Vulnerability Sends Microsoft!
Dec 16, 2025
The AI Security Illusion A Hacker's Wake-Up Call
Dec 15, 2025
OpenAI Atlas is a thief!
Dec 15, 2025
Is the AI Boom Actually a Bubble? The Numbers Reveal the Truth...
Oct 15, 2025
OpenAI's Problems: User Growth vs. Revenue?
Oct 09, 2025
Quit Making AI Slop – Start Building AI That Truly Delivers
Sep 28, 2025
Google Cuts 35% of Its Managers
Sep 27, 2025
AI Vibe: Real Calls & Code Cleanup!
Sep 26, 2025
Meta beating Apple, Nvidia love OpenAI, and Microsoft Scared of AI
Sep 24, 2025
AI Job Market: Specialize or Get Left Behind!
Sep 19, 2025
Claude AI App Store Absence: What's REALLY Happening?
Sep 18, 2025
AI Talent War: Alex Karp Exposes Silicon Valley's AI Flaws
Sep 17, 2025
AI Hype vs. Reality: Avoid the Tech Bubble!
Sep 16, 2025
GPT-5 Failed! Why OpenAI's AI Is In Trouble
Aug 20, 2025
AI Bubble: OpenAI's Valuation & The Warning Signs!
Aug 19, 2025
Powell's Rates Destroying Tech? The Shocking Truth!
Aug 15, 2025
OpenAI's Open Source Shift: What's REALLY Happening?
Aug 13, 2025
America vs. China: Who Wins the AI Race?
Aug 12, 2025
Google's AI Breakthrough MORR Will Kill Transformer
Aug 09, 2025
ChatGPT vs. Microsoft Copilot: AI Showdown?
Jul 25, 2025
.NET The BEST Framework for Developers (2024)
Jul 22, 2025
We've Hit Peak AI: The Data Wall That's Forcing Big Tech to Panic
Jun 13, 2025
Will AI Change Education Forever?!
Jun 13, 2025
How 'Vibe Coding' Is Setting Up a Pile of Tech Debt
Jun 12, 2025
Why 90% of Software Engineers Fail Tech Interviews
Jun 12, 2025
Why Software Devs Will Be the Last Jobs Standing in the AI Revolution
Jun 11, 2025
AI's Dangerous Secret: 76% of Generated Code Is Built on Lies
Jun 11, 2025
Scientists Gave AI $500 to Start a Business - Here's What Happened
Jun 10, 2025
Only CEOs Who Bet Billions Are Still Hyping AI
Jun 10, 2025
AI Writes Buggy Code 62% of the Time: Why Human Engineers Are More Critical Than Ever
May 30, 2025
OpenAI's Newest AI is 2x LESS Reliable (They Admitted It)
May 30, 2025
ARM CEO Speaks Out: The Future of AI & Chip Innovation!
Apr 03, 2025
DeepSeek Running on a Raspberry Pi: AI on the Edge
Apr 02, 2025
Your CTOs should be a hacker
Mar 25, 2025
2 Stories How Scrum DOESN'T WORK!
Mar 24, 2025
REPORT AI Nowhere Near Ready to Replace Software Developers!
Mar 23, 2025
REPORT DeepSeek's disruption in the AI space!
Mar 22, 2025
OpenAI killer DeepSeek R1 - what you need to know!
Mar 21, 2025
Is Stack Overflow dying? Why I think it is better than AI
Mar 20, 2025
Apple proves AI doesn't work! LLM fails!
Mar 19, 2025
Elon Musk vs. OpenAI: Can He Stop Sam Altman’s AI Ambitions?
Mar 18, 2025
ALERT: OpenAI Caught Cheating!
Mar 16, 2025
REPORT Hackers now using AI!
Mar 15, 2025
How to be Exceptional!
Mar 13, 2025
Stack Overflow & Reddit Better Than AI For Programming
Mar 13, 2025
DeepSeek running on a Raspberry Pi
Mar 09, 2025
ALERT: OpenAI Caught Cheating!
Mar 08, 2025
10 Reasons Coding Bootcamps Better Than Free Tutorials
Mar 06, 2025
Meta's Bold Move: The Secret Search Plan That Has Google Shaking!
Mar 05, 2025
WARNING: Google Says Storm Brewing in 2025
Mar 01, 2025
Secret Way to Fund Your Startup!
Feb 28, 2025
AI Truths Exposed - We are Hitting AI Limits
Feb 27, 2025
OpenWRT: How I Create Embedded Databases - less than 20 lines of code!
Feb 26, 2025
SQLite - Things you didn't know about the world's most popular database!
Feb 26, 2025
How I created simple DB on Raspberry Pi - less than 20 lines of code!
Feb 25, 2025
Hidden Secrets Big Consulting Don't Want You to Know
Feb 24, 2025
If I Were Starting to Learn Coding Again: My Approach
Feb 24, 2025
Top 10 Flutter Packages Every Developer Should Know
Feb 23, 2025
AI it hitting it's limits - OpenAI's mad money grab!
Feb 22, 2025
I'm Canceling ChatGPT - You Won't Believe Why!
Feb 21, 2025
Flutter vs React Native: Which Framework is Best for You?
Feb 20, 2025
Meta and Mark Zuckerberg Joins Elon Musk to Block OpenAI
Feb 18, 2025
Why I Hate Scum Sprints - Sprints Are Not Agile!
Feb 18, 2025
Your CTOs should be a hacker
Feb 16, 2025
TOP Things to know Starting or Owning your own company!
Feb 15, 2025
2 Stories How Scrum DOESN'T WORK!
Feb 14, 2025
DeepSeek R1 Hardware Requirements and Cost!
Feb 14, 2025
Every founder should read this || Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill || STARTUPHAKK #2
Nov 09, 2021
How an idea & passion turned into a multi-million $$ company || STARTUP HAKK #1
Nov 09, 2021