Nov 25, 2024
Demo Day and My Talk About Fullyst
Demo day and me presenting Fullyst.
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Nov 22, 2024
First Web Summit Memory: Learning to Pitch Myself and My Startup
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…
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Nov 11, 2024
AI, Taxes, and Less Bureaucracy: Web Summit in Lisbon Kicks Off
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…
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Nov 11, 2024
From a Laggy Minecraft Server to Web Summit: How My First Online Venture Shaped Everything
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…
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Nov 8, 2024
Why I Won’t Be Buying Your Startup’s Services at Web Summit (But Still Want to Talk)
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 …
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Nov 5, 2024
Refactoring Fullyst’s Core: Faster, Smarter, Less Spam
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…
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Nov 4, 2024
The planet is fine; the people are fucked!
'The planet is fine; the people are fucked!' - George Carlin
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Oct 30, 2024
Estonia, What the…?! E‑Residency Changes and New Taxes in 2025
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…
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Oct 30, 2024
How Not to Save Money on Cloud Storage
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…
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Oct 25, 2024
AI: What Comes Next?
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…
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Oct 23, 2024
Growing Up, Turning 30, and Finding Meaning in the Backstage of Life
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…
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Oct 21, 2024
Discovering Real Poetry After Hating It at School
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 …
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Oct 17, 2024
Freedom, Responsibility, and the Fear of Choosing Your Own Life
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…
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Oct 14, 2024
How Greedy Bots Put Telegram Users’ Privacy at Risk
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…
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Oct 13, 2024
Improvy and Fullyst Are Heading to Web Summit 2024
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…
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