SpamCntrl

My old site said SpamCntrl had "smart filtering algorithms," which oversold it a bit. It used lists of known spam accounts, domains and threads, plus rules to catch the ones that weren't on a list yet.

The lists were the small part. A creator signed in with Google and picked whether to scan the whole channel, the latest videos or the community posts, and a Python API on Google Cloud found the spam and deleted it. The dashboard's stats page was called Spamalytics.

For a Chrome extension, it had a lot of plumbing. A private Docker registry, a secrets manager, log collection and health checks all ran on my own servers, and every deploy connected over a VPN before it shipped. I self-hosted a lot in 2022, including an IRC server for the Bitcoin rig with a hot-tub program.

I led the build from 2022 to 2023 with two contractors and merged their work in from their forks. The parts underneath were mostly mine. The job framework that ran the scans was one I'd first written for an earlier tool that pulled store menus.

Stack

Languages

Python

Product

Chrome extension

Data

Firebase

Payments

Stripe

Infrastructure

Google CloudBullMQDockernginx