Reseller Tools

The Problem

Supreme drops new products every Thursday at 11AM EST. Popular items sell out in under 3 seconds. I was 16, in high school, and drops happened during class. Manual purchasing was impossible.

Technical Approach

Built two systems: checkout automation and market intelligence.

Checkout Automation:

• Selenium browser automation for Supreme checkout flow
• Requests-based approach for speed (browser overhead was too slow)
• Hybrid method using ATC (add-to-cart) links to skip product pages entirely
• Form autofill for shipping/payment to minimize checkout time

Market Intelligence:

• Shopify endpoint polling for restock detection
• StockX price scraping for resale value research (Premebase - unfinished)
• Discord webhooks for instant alerts

Interesting Challenges

reCAPTCHA was the wall. Only triggered on checkout submission (button click or POST endpoint), but enough to kill most automation attempts.

The bypass I missed: Supreme's checkout accepted an empty string for g_captcha_response in the POST body, completely bypassing verification. People printed. I found out after it was patched.

Python + Selenium issues: GIL meant my multi-window approach never worked reliably. Combined with being stuck in class during drops, I never successfully botted a hyped release.

What did work: Successfully purchased socks outside of peak drop times. Small wins.

What I Learned

The bots didn't work, but the failures taught me reverse engineering, session management, anti-bot evasion, and proxy rotation. These skills transferred directly to later projects.