MOHAMMED REHAN ANSARI · DUBAI, UAE BUILT WITH GEMINI 4 HYDROGEN · NOV 2026

Four off-duty builds from connecting the dots

A quick confession for the Property Finder team: This is not a ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity share link. It is a live 1-page field note I put together while testing the new Gemini 4 Hydrogen, because I wanted you to see how I actually spend my weekends: tinkering with the latest models, poking at messy real-world systems, and shipping working tools outside my day job.
01 · Dubai PropTech Pilot

DifferentAgent.ae

LIVE PILOT

Property portals show headline rent, but Dubai residents make move-or-stay decisions on total monthly cashflow. Different Agent unbundles the true all-in cost of living across annual Ejari, monthly operator, and shared contracts.

  • True-Cost Engine Models headline rent + DEWA/Empower + WiFi + 5% municipality fee + Ejari and commission amortisation + commute.
  • 4-Dimension Scoring Scores alternatives (0 to 100) on Financial, QoL, Flexibility, and Move-in Cashflow, returning a MOVE / STAY / NEUTRAL verdict.
  • Seasonal & RERA Math Embeds a RERA rent-increase calculator and surfaces May to September soft-market negotiation scripts.
Stack: React, Vite, Express, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM Open differentagent.pages.dev ↗
02 · Open-Box Price Intelligence

Opened.ae

LIVE SITE

Open-box tech on Amazon.ae, priced honestly. Opened scans Amazon.ae resale pages and pairs each item next to Amazon's live price for a brand-new unit today, never against an inflated list or launch price.

  • Strict Honesty Gate Lists an item only if Amazon itself is confirmed as the seller and the open-box price beats today's new price.
  • Price History & Alerts Tracks price drops in SQLite, re-verifies sold-out listings before marking them gone, and pushes new drops to Telegram.
  • Zero-Guesswork Rule If Amazon's page does not show a field, Opened leaves it blank rather than estimating or hallucinating.
Stack: Python, Firecrawl, SQLite, Flask, React 19, Cloudflare Pages Open opened.ae ↗
03 · MCP & OAuth Tooling

GrokSuperImagine (grok-imagine-mcp)

LOCAL MCP SERVER

An MCP server that gives any coding agent (Claude Code, Antigravity, Cursor, Codex) Grok Imagine image and video generation billed to an existing SuperGrok subscription via xAI OAuth, with zero API console credits needed.

  • Device-Code OAuth Flow Authenticates directly against auth.x.ai and sends Bearer tokens to api.x.ai/v1 Imagine endpoints without a middleman proxy.
  • Concurrency-Safe Refresh xAI rotates refresh tokens on every refresh, so renewals are serialized via thread lock + file lock (~/.grok-imagine/.refresh.lock).
  • Agent-Native Output Auto-refreshes 2 minutes before 6h expiry and returns local asset paths alongside temporary xAI URLs.
Stack: Python, MCP, xAI OAuth, File/Thread Locking Personal Dev Tooling
04 · Android TV Networking

XiaomiOnCracc (Per-App sing-box TV Router)

HARDWARE HACK

A per-app VPN router running directly on a Xiaomi Mi Box TV (MiTV-AFMU0) that routes each streaming app out of a different country (India, US, or UK) by Android package name simultaneously.

  • Package-Level Split Routing Builds a single sing-box profile from WireGuard configs so Hotstar, UK, and US apps never fight over a global VPN toggle.
  • Auto-Heal Watchdog Includes autoheal.sh to monitor exit health and verify-routing.sh to prove each app actually took its assigned region.
  • IPv4 & IPv6 Leak Audit tv-vpn-check.sh audits timezone, location channels, Private DNS, and real public IPv4/IPv6 egress on the box.
Stack: sing-box, WireGuard, ADB, Python, Bash Home Lab

The common thread across all four

Whether it is unbundling hidden Dubai rental fees, checking if an open-box discount is actually real, wiring OAuth token locks for AI agents, or auditing IPv6 leaks on a living room TV, the pattern is the same: find the gap between what a system claims and how it actually behaves, then build the smallest working thing that proves it.