How Constraints Made My Product Better
Less is more. It is a really overused phrase that has become a cliché, yet it still has not lost its relevance. At some point, 'less is more' was exactly what the mobile‑first approach was about: firs…
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Less is more. It is a really overused phrase that has become a cliché, yet it still has not lost its relevance. At some point, 'less is more' was exactly what the mobile‑first approach was about: firs…
Saylify progress update: I have started on the web app and so far it is going quite well. There is summary, translation, summary of the translation and similar stuff. Everything is cached and wired th…
I crap-coded, sorry, vibe-coded – that is what they call it now. As an experiment to see whether a top Codex-like model can build something complete and working on top of an existing codebase, I decid…
A mini update on Fullyst: Recently I tightened the limits on AI spam detection, added chat notifications when the limit is reached, and even introduced a way to gift a plan with higher limits to your …
About my 'Telegram mindset': For a long time my main project was Fullyst, a service that lives entirely inside Telegram. Naturally, everything there is built around the Telegram ID. For me i…
While it rains outside almost every day, I’ve gone back to working on the project (the same one I first planned to launch in August, then in September). Here is what is already done: 1. A solid MVP th…
About passive income with @FullystBot: A while ago, Telegram announced it would share ad revenue with owners of large channels. I did not pay much attention then, since I do not have any big channels,…
You open Reddit to scroll through your feed, someone asks a question about Telegram, and in their screenshot you spot @FullystBot ❤️🔥
I definitely got ahead of myself with that whole 'the project will generate lots of open-source code on GitHub' idea. I wrote a parser for telegram-bot-api metrics and a converter that turns them into…
I figured it out. I will do what happens in one of my favorite movies, 'The Social Network': periodically write about my progress on a new project. And while in the movie Zuckerberg is documenting wor…
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 …
Me in 2018: NFT is a scam! Or a way to launder money that is way too dirty. Me in 2024: Give me more Telegram Collectible Usernames! In the last two months of 2024 I bought myself 3 usernames (2 as in…
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…
A bit more about Fullyst (English version). Yesterday, as part of competitor and potential-competitor analysis, I finally got to grep_robot. Like many of its rivals, it only does a subset of what Full…
A long pause here usually means we are working on something big – and this time is no exception. Not only is Fullyst evolving, but the company behind it, Improvy OÜ, is also entering a new chapter. Fr…
A curious thing I noticed when I started actively promoting @FullystBot directly to Telegram chats (I DM the admins of chats I personally read): Many of them already use a bot whose entire functionali…