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Indie hacking, startups, resilient systems - and staying sane while building a small company
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…
There was a time when I used to write lists for myself of things I absolutely had to do in life, or else it felt like it was not really a life at all. Along with everything else, that list included a …
Demo day and me presenting Fullyst.
Web Summit wrapped up more than a week ago, so it is time to share some memories. These will be short notes in random order. Here is the first one: me with other great startup founders from the US, It…
Web Summit has started! From the very first minutes there were many interesting statements that at first seemed to contradict each other, but actually do not: - 'Lisbon and Microsoft AI' - 'AI for int…
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 …
Last night I completely rewrote the internal component interaction architecture in Fullyst. This will save time on message processing, make statistics more reliable, and shave off a bit of infrastruct…
'The planet is fine; the people are fucked!' - George Carlin
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…
How not to save money ℹ️ Warning: lots of boring 'technical' words ahead. A few years ago on the Fullyst website I created a Telegram sticker collection with search. The collection attracts around 2,0…
AI has quietly broken into our lives over just a couple of years. It has not replaced life as we know it, but it has greatly augmented it. At this point someone is guaranteed to say something like 'la…
In childhood, I could never picture myself as an adult. As it’s sung/read in one of Nochniye Gruzchiki’s tracks, I genuinely believed I just would not live to see adulthood. And then, without even not…
The closer Web Summit gets, the less I write about it. Maybe I am afraid of scaring away the opportunities it might bring. Some time ago I discovered the Russian poet Boris Ryzhy, with his piercingly …
Sometimes, when I start thinking about something deeply existential and dive into reflections on meaning, freedom, and responsibility, some interesting thoughts appear. For example: what can really st…