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Indie hacking, startups, resilient systems - and staying sane while building a small company
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 …
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…
How Do You Know You’re Not Just ‘Office Plankton’? I recently saw a Reel about a situation at work in the UK. In a ‘presentation about yourself’, someone listed their hobbies as ‘extreme sports’ and ‘…
Yesterday, along with the new models, OpenAI released Codex CLI, a full-fledged coding agent you can use right from the terminal. To me it looks like a perfect complement and, in some ways, a replacem…
I once thought I would write here about my love of cycling, but other topics always won. Today it is about the bike. Heading out on a Sunday ride from Lisbon toward Sacavem, I planned to do very littl…
A bit about AI The day before yesterday OpenAI introduced a new toolkit for building AI agents, and today I finally got around to reading the release notes and the description of what is actually ther…