BohdanPetryshyn

Building a universal humanoid controller app for our Booster K1 robot. The native app, apparently, leaves much to be desired.

Am I the only one for whom videos in OpenAI releases never load? Tried both Chrome and Safari

My sister and I used to play Burrito Bison on Kongregate back in the Flash days, taking turns after each launch. One would play, the other would watch and scream "hit the cop bear!" We must have spent hundreds of hours on it without even realizing.

Interesting, I wanted to add that soon actually. What’s your use case?

Thanks for reporting, I'll check!

Yeah it's a bit slow right now. Some queries were never meant to handle public traffic. Does it load ok for you folks?

Five months into building product analytics for conversational AI. Started by targeting vibe coding tools like Lovable but realized most of them don't care about user experience yet. With monthly churn over 50%, they focus on acquisition, not retention.

Now shifting to established SaaS companies adding AI assistants to their existing products. Some of them literally have people reading chats full time, so they actually value the experience.

Building https://lenzy.ai - 2 paid customers, 2 pilots, looking for more and figuring out positioning.

You don’t need to identify your users in any way so privacy shouldn’t be a concern in most cases. Lenzy is also super-easy to self-host - just reach out to us at hello@lenzy.ai

Building https://lenzy.ai - helping conversational AI products (think Lovable or Cursor) reduce churn and prioritize product improvements by analyzing their user's chats. I started about 4 months ago, made my 2 paying customers happy. Now trying to onboard more and more companies!

Building https://lenzy.ai - helping products built around chat with AI (think Lovable or Cursor) reduce churn and prioritize product improvements by analyzing their user's chats.

I started about 3 months ago, focusing on making my 2 early adopters happy. One of them is ready to start paying soon!

Hi StarkZ, great to hear that!

I'd prefer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bpetryshyn/

X also works: https://x.com/bohdance

Building https://lenzy.ai - helping products built around chat with AI (think Lovable or Cursor) reduce churn and prioritize product improvements by analyzing their user's chats.

I started about 2 months ago, found 2 early adopters and focusing on making them really happy.

Loved the Lada jokes. "How do you double a Lada's value? Fill up its tank" could apply to quite a few modern cars with terrible depreciation curves

My weekend project, FormZero, a free form backend that is easier to self host than to sign up for a paid service, just got an update. Users can now receive email notifications when people submit their forms - wait lists, newsletter signups, surveys.

My first idea was to ask users to set up a free Resend account and use their API key to send emails. While free, this requires users to at least own a domain and definitely goes against my claim for one-click self hosting.

Then I realized that every user already has their personal email address. If only FormZero could send emails from it in a secure way.

SMTP to the rescue - it's the protocol your email client (Apple/Notion/Outlook) uses to send mail from your email address. The fact that it's a standard protocol allows users to connect to any email provider - Gmail, Proton, Outlook, iCloud or even Resend - just bring your sweet SMTP password with you.

This makes FormZero one more step closer to matching paid services in functionality. Next weekend: Captcha and spam protection.

FormZero: https://github.com/BohdanPetryshyn/formzero - use it for your next web form!

Thanks for sharing. I genuinely enjoy talking to people, figuring out and solving their problems. That's definitely what I quit my job for. But I still consider money a good proxy for how good you are at helping people

What fascinates me about this approach is how it lowers the barrier for self-hosting. I'm curious if there are other projects using "Deploy to Cloudflare" buttons to make self-hosting accessible? Or similar approaches with other platforms (Vercel, Railway, etc.)?

Interesting point. I want to help AI companies help their customers.

AKA B2B :)

I’m honestly surprised something like this doesn’t already exist.

That makes me wonder if there’s a pitfall I haven’t discovered yet.

Is there a fundamental reason this hasn’t been built before?

They didn't even reviewed their own PR in the demo video :\

Thanks for sharing! I think your approach makes sense. Who are your clients if you don't mind?

I’m working on a product to tackle the same problem - keeping user-facing docs up-to-date as products evolve. I’m still early, currently building a proof of concept.

Would love to connect and exchange ideas. Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bpetryshyn/

I have happily used the free Stats app for a couple of years now.

Hey iStat users, what makes the paid tool worth it for you?

I not only enjoyed it as a satire on the overstimulation problem but also learned that my compulsive-obsessive syndrome has a high correlation with overstimulation.

I'm currently hacking together a prototype of such a tool. The problem I noticed is that in CLI, commands are way less predictable than lines in code files, so such a tool will probably have a pretty low correct completion rate. However, there are clearly cases where it could be very helpful.

Thank you for the first comment and sorry for the broken formatting. I just improved it.

The existing solutions are tailored for website analytics and built around concepts like page views, clicks, sessions, etc. Some of them allow sending arbitrary events, but users still need to solve CLI-specific problems like reliable and non-blocking event delivery, user uniqueness, consent collection, and others.

I'd be happy to hear about people's experiences with using these platforms for CLI analytics.

In addition to what pancomplex mentioned, Posthog is not fully open-source. Their free self-hosted version has limited functionality and the paid self-hosted version is no longer supported [1] which makes me feel like I'm pushed to use their cloud offering.

[1] https://posthog.com/docs/self-host

The diagram is available in the basti-cdk package. Probably, I have to make it more visible in the main README: https://github.com/basti-app/basti/tree/main/packages/basti-...

By default, the instance is deployed to a public subnet but any ingress traffic is not allowed by the instance's security group. This is needed for the instance's ability to connect to AWS SSM service (egress only).

The user can also deploy the instance to a private subnet but this would require them to manually ensure connectivity to the AWS SSM via NAT gateway, VPC endpoint or other means.

I'm maintaining Basti, an open-source AWS Bastion Host management CLI that lets you connect to RDS and other resources at almost no cost. Check it out: https://github.com/basti-app/basti

This project also inspired me to explore a commercial analytics solution for CLI applications — currently assessing if there's demand for it.

I think that being in my 20s, I still have a chance to try entrepreneurship and get back to playing safe in my 30s (in the case of failure)

That's exactly how I think about this endeavor. If I fail, I can always get back to being a contractor. I think that with each failed attempt, my value as a software engineer or a manager will only increase.