DepositSlayer
22 MAY
WK 01 · IN PROGRESS
Bad software,
shipped on Friday.
The audience picks the worst idea. Friday at 2pm ET, we ship it.
THE SEASON · NEXT 8 WEEKS
Every Friday is already on the calendar.
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10 JUL
THIS WEEK · BLACKHAT #01
DepositSlayer
Lease in. Damage photos in. Court-ready dispute letter and small-claims paperwork out. Twenty-nine dollars. It's small-claims-court legal. You're going to love it.
Tap. Photo. Letter. Done.
BUILDING · DAY 03
Watch the buildLive build log
last 5
- 22:14Day 3. Stripe wired. Demo recording done.
- 18:02Day 3. Postcard mailer template approved.
- 11:30Day 3. Photo extractor returned "vibes" as an item. Fixed.
- 23:47Day 2. Auth done. Stripe webhooks half-wired.
- 15:08Day 1. Pitch dropped. Built the skeleton.
EXHIBIT A · TEASER 01
Sixty seconds of the bad idea getting built.
The demo is the marketing. The marketing is the receipts. Tap to unmute.
Just ship the f*cking weird thing.
T-MINUS · FRIDAY 14:00 ET
The next bad idea ships in.
05
days
09
hrs
51
min
23
sec
until Blackhat #01 ships at depositslayer.com. Worth it.
The scoreboard goes up Friday. Until then there's nothing to count.
FILE NO. 0001 · MANIFESTO
What this is.
Most software gets built quietly, in private, and then announced when it's safe.
Blackhat is the opposite. Every Friday, in public, we ship a piece of software some institution would rather not exist. The audience picks it. The cameras roll. The Stripe integration goes live at 2pm ET sharp.
The rules are simple. The grey zone — legally defensible, ethically spicy. No federal crimes. No deepfakes of real people. No financial-adversarial tools. Beyond that: every Monday names a real, hated villain, and every Friday ships a real, paid product. Miss either, the series loses trust.
The point isn't the apps. The apps are the receipts. The point is to prove that software can be made in public, on a schedule, with a wink — and that the audience watching it get built is the same audience that buys it.
The wins are funnier than the losses. The losses are still on brand.
If you've ever wanted to watch the line between clever and forbidden get tested in public every week — you're already in on it.
On purpose.
THE METHOD · 5 STEPS, EVERY WEEK
How a Blackhat goes from idea to live in seven days.
THE COURT DOCKET · STAMPED, NOT FILED
Every threat, in chronological order.
Sender: TBD
The first one is already overdue. We'll print it the day it arrives.
THE BALLOT · CLOSES SUNDAY 23:59 ET
You pick the next bad idea.
8,465 VOTES CASTYOU HAVE 1 VOTE LEFT
CLOSES IN
0D 00H 00M
- 01.
Auto-files chargebacks for any regret
Target: online retailers
1,8421,842 - 02.
AI writes your homework in your handwriting
Target: schools
1,3111,311 - 03.
Every Hinge profile in your city, ranked
Target: Hinge
1,2071,207 - 04.
Auto-cancels free trials at 11:59pm
Target: subscription traps
988988 - 05.
DM-warmer for cold sales emails (legal)
Target: Salesforce
742742 - 06.
Uber for breaking your lease cleanly
Target: landlords
661661 - 07.
Court-ready evidence pack from screenshots
Target: scammers
549549 - 08.
No-show fee bot for Hinge dates
Target: dating apps
472472 - 09.
Refund-extractor for delayed flights
Target: airlines
388388 - 10.
Auto-disputes parking tickets in any city
Target: councils
305305
One vote per person. Voting for another pitch moves your vote. Underground votes count 5×.
THE GRAVEYARD
Every Blackhat. Every status.
Working, threatened, ceased, open-sourced, acquired. The wins are funnier than the losses.
EMPTY STATE · WEEK 01
The Graveyard fills up Friday.
Come back at 2pm ET.
WHERE THE SHOW LIVES
Five channels. Pick your fidelity.
SUBMIT
Pitch the worst idea
you've ever wished existed.
Anyone can submit. The shortlist of ten goes to a public vote every Sunday night. The winner ships the following Friday. If yours wins, you take 5% of net revenue for twelve months and a lifetime seat in The Underground.
RECENT
17:42 EST · "auto-files chargebacks for any regret" · online retailers17:41 EST · "ai writes your homework in your handwriting" · schools17:36 EST · "every Hinge profile in your city, ranked" · Hinge17:28 EST · "auto-cancels free trials at 11:59pm" · subscription traps17:15 EST · "DM-warmer for cold sales emails (legal)" · Salesforce17:02 EST · "uber for breaking your lease cleanly" · landlords16:48 EST · "court-ready evidence pack from screenshots" · scammers16:31 EST · "no-show fee bot for Hinge dates" · dating apps17:42 EST · "auto-files chargebacks for any regret" · online retailers17:41 EST · "ai writes your homework in your handwriting" · schools17:36 EST · "every Hinge profile in your city, ranked" · Hinge17:28 EST · "auto-cancels free trials at 11:59pm" · subscription traps17:15 EST · "DM-warmer for cold sales emails (legal)" · Salesforce17:02 EST · "uber for breaking your lease cleanly" · landlords16:48 EST · "court-ready evidence pack from screenshots" · scammers16:31 EST · "no-show fee bot for Hinge dates" · dating apps
THE DISPATCH
Every Friday, in your inbox.
One email a week. The new app. The build log. The fallout. No filler. Free, until the IRS says it isn't.
№01 ships Friday at 2pm ET. Subscribers get it twenty-four hours before the public.
APPLY · 100 SEATS · $97/MO
The cabal that gets the
Blackhat first.
One hundred founding members. Ninety-seven a month. Apps in your inbox twenty-four hours before the public. Build calls every Sunday. Five times the voting power. Every cease-and-desist, uncensored. A pooled share of community revenue across every shipped Blackhat.
FOUNDING SEATS TAKEN
47 / 100
When they're gone, the price goes to $147. Founders are grandfathered. On purpose.
Pre-release access
Every Friday, members get the new app twenty-four hours before the public. Bugs included. Pride included.
Weekly build call
Sundays, 6pm ET, sixty minutes on Zoom. Watch me scope the next week. Argue with me about it.
5× voting power
Your vote on the weekly shortlist counts five times. The Underground steers the slate.
The codebase
Every shipped app's repo. Read it. Fork it. Learn from the bugs we left in.
Every C&D, unredacted
The legal docs that don't make it to public posts. With names. With dates.
The pot
Two percent of MRR across every shipped Blackhat pooled and split monthly among Underground members.
PORTRAIT · TBD
Hudson,
in black & white.
THE BUILDER
Hudson Hildebrand.
Indie operator, ex-CRO consultant.
Spent five years optimising checkout flows for ecommerce brands no one's heard of.
Black Hat is the project that gets to ignore the brief.
FAQ
The boring legally-relevant stuff.
Mostly. We stay in the grey zone — legally defensible, ethically spicy. Public scraping, TOS violations, public-records workflows. No federal crimes. No deepfakes. No financial-adversarial tools. It's small-claims-court legal. You're going to love it.