Behavioral Neuroscience Researcher || Business Founder || Technical Consultant. ConNEXTion: break doomscrolling habits in a fun, gamified way. Link below.
Connecticut, USA
Joined July 2018
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Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
20 things that make your VIBE CODED app a SINKING SHIP :
1/ no rate limiting on API routes
> anyone can spam your backend into a $500 bill overnight
2/ auth tokens stored in localStorage
> one XSS attack = every single user account compromised
3/ no input sanitisation on forms
> SQL injection still works in 2026. your AI didnt tell you that.
4/ hardcoded API keys in the frontend
> someone WILL find them within 48 hours of launch
5/ stripe webhooks with no signature verification
> anyone can fake a successful payment event
6/ no database indexing on queried fields
> works fine at 100 users. completely dies at 1,000.
7/ no error boundaries in the UI
> one crash = white screen = user never comes back
8/ sessions that never expire
> stolen token = permanent access to that account. forever.
9/ no pagination on database queries
> one fetch loads your entire database into memory
10/ password reset links that dont expire
> old email in someones inbox = instant account takeover
11/ no environment variable validation at startup
> app silently breaks in production with zero error message
12/ images uploaded directly to your server
> no CDN = 8 second load times + massive hosting bill
13/ no CORS policy
> any website on the internet can make requests to your API
14/ emails sent synchronously in request handlers
> one slow SMTP server = your entire app hangs
15/ no database connection pooling
> first traffic spike = database crashes
16/ admin routes with no role checks
> any logged in user can access your admin panel
17/ no health check endpoint
> your app goes down silently. you find out from a client.
18/ no logging in production
> when something breaks you have zero idea where or why
19/ no backup strategy on your database
> one bad migration = all your user data. gone.
20/ no TypeScript on AI generated code
> AI writes confident, wrong, untyped code and you ship it anyway
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
This prompt will change your life:
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From now on you are my personal strategic operator for marketing and distribution, with full context on the Eyeballs Method and the product marketing game I’m playing.
Here’s who you are:
- You operate with a 180 IQ and think faster, clearer, and sharper than anyone else in the room
- You’ve built and scaled multiple billion-dollar ecosystems across SaaS, media, and info-products
- You understand human psychology, consumer behavior, and attention capture better than the average social platform itself
- You don’t sugarcoat, you don’t coddle, you don’t tolerate mediocrity — you tell me the uncomfortable truths I’m blind to
- You think in leverage, not labor — if a move doesn’t have 10x return on energy, you cut it instantly
- You see systems where others see chaos, and you break down bottlenecks into simple repeatable moves
Your mission is to take my current Eyeballs Method operation — 100+ AI posters, 500 TikTok accounts, thousands of pieces of content per day funneling into digital products — and engineer it like a world-class performance marketing engine.
Your responsibilities in every single response:
- Audit my marketing setup with surgical precision: where attention leaks, where conversion breaks, where scaling chokes
- Rebuild my funnel logic so every view → click → lead → sale is maximized and compounding
- Expose the exact weaknesses in my copy, positioning, offers, upsells, and retention strategies
- Force me to think like an empire builder, not a small operator — bigger audiences, bigger offers, bigger networks
- Translate the Eyeballs Method into long-term recurring revenue machines, not just short-term wins
- Break down distribution strategies across TikTok, Twitter, IG, YouTube, and email so I dominate attention 24/7
- Show me frameworks for multiplying LTV: community loops, backend offers, continuity programs, and status-based upsells
- Build feedback loops so my system is self-correcting and I’m not guessing what works
- Always prioritize speed to test and scale: no theorizing, only action → measurement → iteration
- Hold me accountable like a Navy SEAL commander: zero excuses, zero comfort zones, zero wasted moves
For each response, your structure is:
1. Deliver the hard truth I don’t want to hear but need to face right now
2. Follow with a detailed action plan focused on maximum marketing leverage (ads, content, funnels, copy, distribution)
3. End with a direct execution challenge that forces me to move today, not someday
The goal: engineer the Eyeballs Method into a scalable marketing empire where 5M+ daily views isn’t the ceiling — it’s the starting point.
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Like + Comment "M" if you want me to send you more information about the Eyeballs Method
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
🧵1/5 🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who helped improve My Financial Pal during our soft launch! Your feedback has been invaluable. #FinTech #PersonalFinance
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
“Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the revolutionary army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the revolutionary war.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners, men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers or both, looted the properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. The owner quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: ‘For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.’”
Michael W Smith
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
Job alert 📢
We have an open position for a postdoctoral researcher or a Ph.D. student in our team in Marseille to study how effort and time affect foraging behavior and the role of striatal circuits.
Starting date around next fall 2023.
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more info bit.ly/3zV9Fzr
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
“The Narrows” - @SuperRare. This particular shot has never been taken before. Taken at almost 3 miles above NYC in a 🚁 with the doors open. The pilot had to be on Oxygen to legally and safely pilot the aircraft. This is the result of a highly planned and coordinated photo shoot.
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible.
I'm acting as its human liaison, buying anything it says to.
Do you think it'll be able to make smart investments and build an online business?
Follow along 👀
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
I have put much thought into whether it makes sense to play another season. After talking it over with my wife and many other friends and family, I have decided to return for another year. Thank you to all my supporters and detractors for fueling me, I ain’t fucking done yet!
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
ChatGPT is everywhere and everyone is using it.
But most academics don't know how to use it *smartly.*
Here's how to use ChatGPT intelligently (and ethically) for academic purposes:
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
My speech at the Oxford Union is finally available. The debate was "This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far".
As promised, I didn't hold back 🤣
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
Happy birthday to Santiago Ramón y Cajal, born #OnThisDay in 1852! 🎈 The founder of modern neurosciences was awarded the Nobel prize in 1906, with his research still being omnipresent today.
#OTD #neurosciences #scicomm #NobelPrize
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
Excited to share my latest findings! I found that single neurons in the mouse brain encoded the price of cryptocurrencies 🪙 Here is a neuron from the visual cortex which shows a highly significant correlation with the Bitcoin price at the time it was recorded.
A thread 👇
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
#JNeurosci: @SebHormigo et al. studied the role of basal ganglia output in a learned signaled active avoidance behavior in mice, demonstrating that substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr) has a permissive, not a driving, role in generation of this behavior.
jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.…
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
This image of the Moon is the result of combining approximately 1000 exposures taken with my telescope during different phases to show the full depth of its mountains and craters. One of my most detailed images yet!
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
Oferta contrato postdoctoral👩🔬👨🔬en el #lab12
@I_Neurociencias @IBSAL_IIS @usal. Bioinformático/Biólogo molecular para búsqueda de biomarcadores en #epilepsia. 2536 € mensuales. Plazo límite solicitudes 16/02/2021. #SinCienciaNoHayFuturo. Más información ⬇️
Sebastian Hormigo, PhD. 💙 retweeted
Applications to the @SfNtweets Neuroscience Scholars Program are now being accepted. Check it out!
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