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Indie hacking, startups, resilient systems - and staying sane while building a small company
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…
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…
Today, for the first time, I had to fire someone from my infrastructure team. He was a good DevOps engineer who had worked at our company for almost three years. It was so sad that I still feel unsett…
On Monday I had a textbook experience of ‘adult’ work: a quarterly report. But let me start from the beginning. In July I was given a new position, Head of Infrastructure at a large blockchain company…
I stumbled on a quote by George Carlin: 'If all kids are special, why do they grow up to be ordinary adults?' It got me thinking, because it really does ring true. When I was in school, every class, s…
A few words about bank disputes. Yesterday Stripe sent me a very 'happy' notification: Improvy OÜ has a second open dispute from a customer who paid us $33 for a monthly subscription and used Fullyst …
Every time it sounds so nice: 'As a trusted developer' 😁 I just realized that the Improvy OÜ account will soon be in the top 'Tier 5' at OpenAI. At first it’s a bit scary to have so many p…