Mirza Abdullah Baig

Mirza Abdullah Baig

AI Solution Dev | AWS Solution Architect
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IT Operations Manager and AWS Certified Solutions Architect with 25+ years across telecom, government, healthcare, and real estate in India, Saudi Arabia, Canada, and the US. Past work includes network and security infrastructure for the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Dr. Habib Suliman Hospital. Since 2023, I've built AI automation and agent systems through Cloudz Computing, chatbots, business process automation, and appointment booking using n8n and Zapier, and shipped software including Locus, a self-hosted lead-generation tool. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, plus Python, ITIL, and AI certifications.

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Maker History

  • Locus
    LocusSelf-hosted Google Maps lead scraper with AI email finder
    Sep 2026
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    Joined Product HuntMarch 22nd, 2026

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1d ago

Why real SMTP verification instead of just trusting an AI guess

Most lead-gen tools stop at "the AI thinks this is the right email." Locus does one more step: after the AI finds a candidate email, it does an actual MX lookup and SMTP handshake against the mail server, checking whether the mailbox exists, without ever sending anything. Only a confirmed rejection downgrades the AI's answer; an inconclusive result (a slow server, a greylist) leaves it standing.

Curious what people actually do for email verification today, whether it's a separate paid tool, ignoring it entirely, or something else. Happy to go into how the handshake logic works if anyone's curious about the implementation.

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24h ago

Locus - Self-hosted Google Maps lead scraper with AI email finder

Search for a location and category, pull real Google Maps business listings, and run each one through AI enrichment to find and verify a real contact email. Free, open-source, AGPL-3.0; bring your own API keys. No account with us, nothing hosted; you run it yourself.
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