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Im prepared to take the hate if I'm wrong, but it seems like you've made over 170 sites, developed a lot of stuff and it just doesn't seem to add up... Flag 1:

Im prepared to take the hate if I'm wrong, but it seems like you've made over 170 sites, developed a lot of stuff and it just doesn't seem to add up... Flag 1: After Googling your username, it led to your YouTube channel, with an adult male in the picture: https://www.youtube.com/user/kbrshh https://www.youtube.com/user/kbrshh pretty odd... Flag 2: You seem to not have aged in a year? What. https://www.reddit.com/r/freelance/comments/4w7thd/can_a_13_year_old_freelance/ https://www.reddit.com/r/freelance/comments/4w7thd/can_a_13_... the post date is the 5th of August so unless you were lying then, then you're lying now. Flag 3: This led to finding https://npm.taobao.org/~kingkabir https://npm.taobao.org/~kingkabir which shows everything you've worked on. If you've done all this by the age of 13, then damn, good luck in the future, but it just seems like you're trying to push the popularity of your side projects by leveraging your age... Just seems madly dodgy to me.

shanbhag 9y ago
Haters are gonna hate, potatoes are gonna potate. I've known Kabir for a while now and I can confirm that he's pretty much a really fun kid. Try me. https://twitter.com/shnbhg https://twitter.com/shnbhg
beckler 9y ago
So I'm still skeptical... because the branding, presence and everything is just way too professional to make me believe he's done this alone. I also believe that he's using multiple HN profiles to manipulate visibility (there are a number of profiles who's first comment is this on this post). However, I do believe he is legit about his age. Searching for his name, I found this old CodePen account: https://codepen.io/KingKabir/ https://codepen.io/KingKabir/ There's a link in there to: http://www.main180.tk http://www.main180.tk That link is expired, but it showed up in this Quora from 2015: https://www.quora.com/Should-an-11-year-old-know-full-stack-coding-He-is-working-on-a-project-where-he-makes-180-websites-in-180-days-I-dont-know-if-this-is-good-or-bad https://www.quora.com/Should-an-11-year-old-know-full-stack-... Looking in the wayback machine, you can see what content his site used to have: https://web.archive.org/web/20151231214946/http://www.main180.tk/ https://web.archive.org/web/20151231214946/http://www.main18... This lead me to this blog: https://180projectblog.wordpress.com/ https://180projectblog.wordpress.com/ It looks like he accomplished most of them? I didn't count, but the last entry on that site was in March 2016 (https://180projectblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/bubble/ https://180projectblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/bubble/) Moon was started in July 2016 (https://github.com/kbrsh/moon/commit/2e38db7571adf64c9192cfe8bc8c265a36a4a527 https://github.com/kbrsh/moon/commit/2e38db7571adf64c9192cfe...). So while I'm still skeptical about his presence, I think it seems plausible that he is who he says he is, but that doesn't mean he's done it alone, etc, etc.
- kbr 9y ago
  I did most of my branding by myself (using Sketch), but my family, and a community of students[1] always give me feedback on my projects. I do not have multiple HN profiles (although I have a throwaway account made a while back). However, I do have friends that usually are the first comments on my posts. Also, while Moon was on Github in 2016, I started playing around with it locally in late 2015 before publishing anything online. [1] https://feathrd.co https://feathrd.co
5_minutes 9y ago
Right, and the way his HN comments are written and layouted? Even the username is too pro. It certainly smells fishy.
- deleted 9y ago
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kbr 9y ago
I feel like I've responded to this before. 1. I recently changed my username and do not have a Youtube channel. That person doesn't even have the same name as me. 2. I was 12 then, and if you can't tell, I was pretty dumb at the time, and was pretty much looking for attention. Legally you weren't allowed to be signed up for Reddit, which is why I said I was 13 (which I am now). 3. I have worked on all of those npm modules, but most of them are forked improvements of existing modules (such as Jade). If you read my comment above, you'll notice I don't like talking about my age (this is one of the few exceptions). In fact, I am even not the OP of this post.
- usaphp 9y ago
  > In fact, I am even not the OP of this post. It's interesting that the person who submitted this to HN has already submitted the same link exactly a year ago. In fact 3/5 his submission are about your site... Edit: actually all of the OP submissions are about you.
  - kbr 9y ago
    Interesting. The thing is, I don't have control over what the OP can post. It's crazy how you guys are assuming that I don't know my own age after judging based on: 1. A search of my username (there are tons of people with a three letter username like my HN username) 2. An old post of mine on Reddit. 3. My NPM profile (which includes lots of forks) 4. The quality of my username. 5. The layout of my comments on Hacker News. 6. The posts of some stranger that has attempted to submit my website multiple times.
    - urbanj 9y ago
      Just own up, instead of lying.
    - usaphp 9y ago
      > The thing is, I don't have control over what the OP can post. You see here is the part I don't believe. If you look at the submissions [1] that the OP has, all 5 of his submissions lead to either your github projects or your 13 y/o twitter page/website. I doubt that a person you don't know is so obsessed about only posting stuff about you, not commenting or anything, just submitting your projects and links. That account has no comments nor favorites. Based on that - my assumption is you have multiple accounts here and now are lying about not having control of what the OP has, if you lie on that part - it makes your whole 13 y/o thing less beleivable to me. [1] - http://i.imgur.com/3TzGnr4.png http://i.imgur.com/3TzGnr4.png
q1t 9y ago
hm.. related? https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/6sesm7/portfolio_feedback_kabir_shah/dldffj1/ https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/6sesm7/portfolio_fe...
gonmf 9y ago
Flag 4: Supposedly he published articles at 12 about how "every year there are a lot of new startups" [1]. Flag 5: He had the good sense of using a throwaway email at 13, associated with nothing but his projects and no photos. Flag 6: That same good sense to get into every self-promotion channel, like Twitter would even cross a child's mind in 2017. Flag 7: Some of his projects seem copy pasted from school/books/online examples, without attribution. My guess is that he has a really intense family on him being an overachiever, they are probably aiming at some internships, which is only fair. [1] https://hackernoon.com/42-startups-changing-the-world-4f3d1a6f604d https://hackernoon.com/42-startups-changing-the-world-4f3d1a...
- gfodor 9y ago
  Flag 8: He is using Crystal based on his knowledge of ruby, there is no ruby code on his Github Flag 9: He cranked out a multithreaded reverse proxy in C in four days, despite no other C code in his repo. https://github.com/kbrsh/coat https://github.com/kbrsh/coat I learned C when I was just about his (alleged) age. I made some cool shit for an ANSI art group, but my code was a total goddamn mess full of newb mistakes (not DRY, bad naming, etc etc) and there's no way in hell I would be using advanced things like threads and mutexes in general, nevermind correctly. Where's all the terrible C code? The terrible ruby code? Where's the path and not just the destination? There's a lot of stuff in the github showing he just learned how to do web development. He was at "Hello World" a year and a half ago and definitely deserves props for getting as far as he has since then, regardless of age. That said, wouldn't he want to put up all of his old work in ruby and C it took for him to get this good at C and Crystal since he already has all the other half-finished projects? Perhaps that work would be too far in the past for his story and would force us to have to believe he knew how to do pointer arithmetic in C at 8 years old? There's no way coat was written by someone who hasn't been programming for a good while. It's not some phenomenal work of engineering but it's by someone who is fairly seasoned. The profile here looks like someone who was already pretty good and experienced at programming and picked up web programming about a year ago under a new online identity.
  - kbr 9y ago
    Alright I'm going to stop replying to these, I'm starting feel attacked. 8. All of my code is not on Github, and there is no reason for me to learn a language simply because I have previous knowledge in Ruby. I chose to learn Crystal because of it's elegance and speed. 9. I wrote that reverse proxy based on a variety of online tutorials[1], but used my knowledge of threads to make it multithreaded. [1] http://www.gilesthomas.com/2013/08/writing-a-reverse-proxyloadbalancer-from-the-ground-up-in-c-part-0/ http://www.gilesthomas.com/2013/08/writing-a-reverse-proxylo...

shanbhag 9y ago

Haters are gonna hate, potatoes are gonna potate. I've known Kabir for a while now and I can confirm that he's pretty much a really fun kid. Try me. https://twitter.com/shnbhg https://twitter.com/shnbhg

beckler 9y ago

So I'm still skeptical... because the branding, presence and everything is just way too professional to make me believe he's done this alone. I also believe that he's using multiple HN profiles to manipulate visibility (there are a number of profiles who's first comment is this on this post). However, I do believe he is legit about his age. Searching for his name, I found this old CodePen account: https://codepen.io/KingKabir/ https://codepen.io/KingKabir/ There's a link in there to: http://www.main180.tk http://www.main180.tk That link is expired, but it showed up in this Quora from 2015: https://www.quora.com/Should-an-11-year-old-know-full-stack-coding-He-is-working-on-a-project-where-he-makes-180-websites-in-180-days-I-dont-know-if-this-is-good-or-bad https://www.quora.com/Should-an-11-year-old-know-full-stack-... Looking in the wayback machine, you can see what content his site used to have: https://web.archive.org/web/20151231214946/http://www.main180.tk/ https://web.archive.org/web/20151231214946/http://www.main18... This lead me to this blog: https://180projectblog.wordpress.com/ https://180projectblog.wordpress.com/ It looks like he accomplished most of them? I didn't count, but the last entry on that site was in March 2016 (https://180projectblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/bubble/ https://180projectblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/bubble/) Moon was started in July 2016 (https://github.com/kbrsh/moon/commit/2e38db7571adf64c9192cfe8bc8c265a36a4a527 https://github.com/kbrsh/moon/commit/2e38db7571adf64c9192cfe...). So while I'm still skeptical about his presence, I think it seems plausible that he is who he says he is, but that doesn't mean he's done it alone, etc, etc.

kbr 9y ago
I did most of my branding by myself (using Sketch), but my family, and a community of students[1] always give me feedback on my projects. I do not have multiple HN profiles (although I have a throwaway account made a while back). However, I do have friends that usually are the first comments on my posts. Also, while Moon was on Github in 2016, I started playing around with it locally in late 2015 before publishing anything online. [1] https://feathrd.co https://feathrd.co

5_minutes 9y ago

Right, and the way his HN comments are written and layouted? Even the username is too pro. It certainly smells fishy.

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kbr 9y ago

I feel like I've responded to this before. 1. I recently changed my username and do not have a Youtube channel. That person doesn't even have the same name as me. 2. I was 12 then, and if you can't tell, I was pretty dumb at the time, and was pretty much looking for attention. Legally you weren't allowed to be signed up for Reddit, which is why I said I was 13 (which I am now). 3. I have worked on all of those npm modules, but most of them are forked improvements of existing modules (such as Jade). If you read my comment above, you'll notice I don't like talking about my age (this is one of the few exceptions). In fact, I am even not the OP of this post.

usaphp 9y ago
> In fact, I am even not the OP of this post. It's interesting that the person who submitted this to HN has already submitted the same link exactly a year ago. In fact 3/5 his submission are about your site... Edit: actually all of the OP submissions are about you.
- kbr 9y ago
  Interesting. The thing is, I don't have control over what the OP can post. It's crazy how you guys are assuming that I don't know my own age after judging based on: 1. A search of my username (there are tons of people with a three letter username like my HN username) 2. An old post of mine on Reddit. 3. My NPM profile (which includes lots of forks) 4. The quality of my username. 5. The layout of my comments on Hacker News. 6. The posts of some stranger that has attempted to submit my website multiple times.
  - urbanj 9y ago
    Just own up, instead of lying.
  - usaphp 9y ago
    > The thing is, I don't have control over what the OP can post. You see here is the part I don't believe. If you look at the submissions [1] that the OP has, all 5 of his submissions lead to either your github projects or your 13 y/o twitter page/website. I doubt that a person you don't know is so obsessed about only posting stuff about you, not commenting or anything, just submitting your projects and links. That account has no comments nor favorites. Based on that - my assumption is you have multiple accounts here and now are lying about not having control of what the OP has, if you lie on that part - it makes your whole 13 y/o thing less beleivable to me. [1] - http://i.imgur.com/3TzGnr4.png http://i.imgur.com/3TzGnr4.png

q1t 9y ago

hm.. related? https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/6sesm7/portfolio_feedback_kabir_shah/dldffj1/ https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/6sesm7/portfolio_fe...

gonmf 9y ago

Flag 4: Supposedly he published articles at 12 about how "every year there are a lot of new startups" [1]. Flag 5: He had the good sense of using a throwaway email at 13, associated with nothing but his projects and no photos. Flag 6: That same good sense to get into every self-promotion channel, like Twitter would even cross a child's mind in 2017. Flag 7: Some of his projects seem copy pasted from school/books/online examples, without attribution. My guess is that he has a really intense family on him being an overachiever, they are probably aiming at some internships, which is only fair. [1] https://hackernoon.com/42-startups-changing-the-world-4f3d1a6f604d https://hackernoon.com/42-startups-changing-the-world-4f3d1a...

gfodor 9y ago
Flag 8: He is using Crystal based on his knowledge of ruby, there is no ruby code on his Github Flag 9: He cranked out a multithreaded reverse proxy in C in four days, despite no other C code in his repo. https://github.com/kbrsh/coat https://github.com/kbrsh/coat I learned C when I was just about his (alleged) age. I made some cool shit for an ANSI art group, but my code was a total goddamn mess full of newb mistakes (not DRY, bad naming, etc etc) and there's no way in hell I would be using advanced things like threads and mutexes in general, nevermind correctly. Where's all the terrible C code? The terrible ruby code? Where's the path and not just the destination? There's a lot of stuff in the github showing he just learned how to do web development. He was at "Hello World" a year and a half ago and definitely deserves props for getting as far as he has since then, regardless of age. That said, wouldn't he want to put up all of his old work in ruby and C it took for him to get this good at C and Crystal since he already has all the other half-finished projects? Perhaps that work would be too far in the past for his story and would force us to have to believe he knew how to do pointer arithmetic in C at 8 years old? There's no way coat was written by someone who hasn't been programming for a good while. It's not some phenomenal work of engineering but it's by someone who is fairly seasoned. The profile here looks like someone who was already pretty good and experienced at programming and picked up web programming about a year ago under a new online identity.
- kbr 9y ago
  Alright I'm going to stop replying to these, I'm starting feel attacked. 8. All of my code is not on Github, and there is no reason for me to learn a language simply because I have previous knowledge in Ruby. I chose to learn Crystal because of it's elegance and speed. 9. I wrote that reverse proxy based on a variety of online tutorials[1], but used my knowledge of threads to make it multithreaded. [1] http://www.gilesthomas.com/2013/08/writing-a-reverse-proxyloadbalancer-from-the-ground-up-in-c-part-0/ http://www.gilesthomas.com/2013/08/writing-a-reverse-proxylo...