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The One Who Started It All | Alpha Lencho Every great community begins with a vision. Ours began with Alpha. Alpha Lencho was the first Lead of ISHUB and the person who believed in the idea of bringing Information Systems students together. What started as a vision to connect students has grown into a community reaching across departments and across campus. But his story with ISHUB didn’t end when his leadership role did. He continues to support, encourage, and stand behind ISHUB to this day. That continued belief means more than words can express. We are deeply grateful for his vision, leadership, courage, and unwavering support. He didn’t just help build ISHUB—he helped give it a beginning. Thank you, Alpha, for believing when ISHUB was only an idea, for taking the first step, and for continuing to believe in what it can become. ❤️ ISHUB is bigger today because you believed in it first. Telegram|LinkedIn|YouTube | Tiktok

grok bot can book a hotel for you :)

Day 10 of hyping grok bot! if you guys haven’t started using it already, you’re missing out on a lot

CBE started giving loans? Haha I know this is not good info 😁

Give your agent real Chapa context when you integrate payments. I was wiring up chapa and had cursor turn the official chapa docs into an agent skill:

npx skills add Alpha-Mintamir/chapa-agent-skills

* skills .sh: https://skills.sh/Alpha-Mintamir/chapa-agent-skills * repo: https://github.com/Alpha-Mintamir/chapa-agent-skills

many of you have been asking why I don’t have car…here is the answer🤣

here we go

I’ll be doing a Cursor credit giveaway. grok bot will check my subscribers and randomly pick 5 people. It’ll DM the credit link directly to each winner... 1 gets $50, 1 gets $30, and 3 get $20 each. We’ll do it at 1 PM (7 LT)

Hey everyone, welocme to Alpha Labs🥰 I don’t think I’ve properly introduced myself here, so here we go. I’m Alpha Lencho, an Information Systems grad from AAU, class of 2025. I’ve been shifting my interests around for the past 3 years. I’ve been into networking stuff, ML/AI stuff, and a little bit of development. Right now, I’m mainly focused on entrepreneurship. I’m more interested in turning digital solutions into actual income(the potential is crazy👀) At this point, my goal isn’t to share technical stuff or my learning journey. I actually promised myself that I wouldn’t build any side projects or random projects that don’t generate income for me. So, I’ll mostly be sharing projects built under Alpha Labs and posting them here mainly for portfolio building. Other than entrepreneurship, or simply making money from digital products, I’m really into tech communities. I’ve been part of GDG AAU, co-founded @techinethio with some friends where we used to do some cool podcasts, and also founded @InformationSystemsHub, an NLP community, and a few other communities back in university. Now I’m working on what I think is one of the most vibrant tech communities in Ethiopia, Cursor community❤️‍🔥

Today Alpha Labs got officially licensed. Same day, we delivered gym management software to Robi Fitness, Hawassa.

4000+ results checked by 481 users through @matricresulttbot so far. This is so cool🥰

Shipped a Telegram bot for Grade 12 students to check their exam results. EAES's server is painfully slow but anyway, here you go: @matricresulttbot

POV: you’re not a boring boyfriend, you ask her like this😄 ➡️link night-city-five.vercel.app

Grok Bot is awesome. Today morning while I was in a taxi, I was thinking about building a Wikipedia + archive platform where you can find things like step-by-step guides for creating a PLC in Ethiopia, home rental contract templates, government institution directories, and other useful docs, all actively maintained by the public. I opened Cursor on my iPhone, prompted it with my idea, and let the cloud agent start building it. Then I went to Grok Bot, named it my CTO, and gave it access to my GitHub, Vercel, Supabase, and Cursor. Grok Bot basically handled everything from there 😭 It prompted the Cursor cloud agent, tested the features on its own computer, refined the project, created the GitHub repo and pushed the code, created the Supabase project, got the connection strings, added them to Vercel env, and deployed it. Now I’m back in a taxi heading home, and when I checked, the first draft of the platform was already live on Vercel. Mann this is the future 🥰

More than 100 npm downloads, 20+ stars on the repo, and 70+ shares in less than 24 hours 🥰 Thank you to everyone who shared this and showed love. I hope this project solves a pain point many of us share. I already have a few ideas to build on top of it, and will share the details soon🫶

Soo, I run a scooter rental business. Every rental starts with checking the customer's Fayda ID and typing their details into our system by hand. Slow, and full of typos. The proper fix is the Fayda API. We tried. The bureaucracy defeated us before we ever got a key. Then I realized the card already carries everything: the QR on the back holds the holder's name, gender, FAN, date of birth, face photo, and NIDP's digital signature. So I built the missing piece and open sourced it. fayda-decoder turns that QR into clean JSON from a simple photo of the card. It even verifies NIDP's cryptographic signature, so printed fakes fail instantly. 100% on-device, browser or Node. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. Reads blurry, dark, photos that normal QR scanners reject. Decodes in under 100 ms. No API key, no approval process, no permission needed.

npm install fayda-decoder

👉 Live demo: https://fayda-decoder.alphalabshq.com 👉 GitHub: https://github.com/Alpha-Mintamir/fayda-decoder (star the repo ⭐️🫶)

Btw the ingestor tool i mentioned here was grok bot

lately, life’s been a bit busy. replying to dms across different platforms and managing and organizing tasks wasn’t really easy for me. i wanted to reflect on my day, but i’m not really good at keeping a diary. instead, i used to dump random thoughts into my telegram saved messages, and then i wouldn’t even go back and check them. managing my finances was probably the most challenging part. that’s why i built a life os for myself to manage everything in one place. now i can check all my messages from telegram, slack, linkedin, and different email accounts in one place, write my to-do lists, and reflect on my day by writing random dump texts the same way i would in my telegram saved messages. those reflections get saved as .md files and become part of my personal knowledge base. my calendar, to-do list, and financial data are also used as part of the knowledge base. i also implemented an ai chat feature using the cursor sdk that helps me remember things i forgot, understand how my week is going, and a lot more. i’ve integrated both my notion and google calendars, so i can check everything in one place. i also have an ingestor tool that checks my recent dms, calendar events, and other data, then syncs everything with my life os. i exposed the endpoints through the life os’s authorized api key. it’s still in the early stages, but i already love it.

The journey begins : ) Our first software deal under Alpha Labs is with Robi Fitness, Hawassa for a Gym Management System. July 16, 2026 ✍