Stories tagged “startups”
Indie hacking, startups, resilient systems - and staying sane while building a small company
It seems like it is time to write year-end summaries and plans for the next one, but it looks like I am not up for that. As this insane 2025 is wrapping up, I decided to do everything in my power to t…
Another Improvy OÜ birthday – 4 years! To be fair, I have to admit the reality: for the first 3 years there was absolutely no activity and the legal entity was basically unused. But the fourth year is…
Web Summit 2025: First Impressions This is my third year in a row at Web Summit Lisbon, and this one feels especially unusual. It seems to me that Web Summit has really rethought how to make networkin…
I still cannot get myself to write on a regular basis, even short progress notes. The MVP with a minimal feature set, fully working, is already done. I am surprised by how easily the core features cam…
I just can't seem to do it like Zuckerberg in the movie and write regularly about working on a new project. This Project-X (I will call it that for now, although it already has a name) is my first pro…
Improvy OÜ’s tax return is ready! In 2024 Improvy OÜ turned into a real startup: Revenue +252% Expenses +71,500% (!) Cash at year end +2,514% Liabilities +7,842% In reality it is not as bad as it look…
As I’ve said before, summer is work season. So here we go. If anyone thought that once Fullyst launched I would stop building good projects, those people were very wrong. Over time, Fullyst has grown …
Late June is the perfect time to focus on work and finally write about what is going on at Improvy OÜ. June is the last month to file tax returns in the EU. While my personal return is still a mystery…
Holiday week is the best time to launch new features :) While everyone is slowing down, you can quietly ship updates, test ideas, and polish the experience without extra noise. It is a great moment to…
A little over two years ago, in November 2022, while I was trying to decide where to move and already had my own startup, I applied for Portugal’s startup program. I filled out the form as it was, wit…
Over the past week, the Fullyst website was visited by more than 15,000 unique users, and the number of active users across all chats connected to @FullystBot has passed 125,000. In the near future Fu…
Demo day and me presenting Fullyst.
Web Summit starts in less than 24 hours, which means I have another sleepless night ahead of me. I decided to use it to write about how all of this began. By 'all of this' I mean my startup taking par…
Web Summit is just around the corner. I’ve received a lot of invitations for a cup of coffee somewhere in the summit pavilions. Most of these invites are from startups about the size of Improvy OÜ or …
Estonia, what the…?! I decided to read up on the upcoming changes to the e‑residency program and, at the same time, what is going on in Estonia in general: https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/blog/posts/cha…