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Indie hacking, startups, resilient systems - and staying sane while building a small company
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 sometimes scroll my feed and see the same thing over and over: a photo of an IDE, a black terminal, or someone’s 2+ monitors with the caption 'coding'. You can almost feel the pride in eve…
Yesterday OpenAI introduced GPT-5, and the new model is already leading in most benchmarks. My subjective take after a few conversations with GPT-5: it is so good that I honestly cannot imagine how we…
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,…
Here is the funny part: I sometimes write about AI, I keep up with almost all the updates from major players like OpenAI and Anthropic, yet yesterday I was complaining about a task that was routine an…
Sometimes you get stuck on the same thing for several days, not because you ran into something difficult, but rather the opposite: the task is routine and boring, yet it still demands a meticulous app…
A long time ago I was genuinely excited when one of my websites got 100 visitors in a day. Now, looking at the traffic stats for @FullystBot, I feel the same excitement, but this time at around 7,000 …
You open Reddit to scroll through your feed, someone asks a question about Telegram, and in their screenshot you spot @FullystBot ❤️🔥
A funny fact: no OpenAI model, in any format, is able to write a full-featured usage statistics handler for the endpoints at https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/usage/ Even if you feed it the entir…
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…
Yesterday I had one of the most interesting interviews of my career: I was interviewing a candidate for a DevOps Engineer role, and the most curious part was that the candidate was a representative of…
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 …