Dmytro Shevchenko 🇺🇦

Founder and full stack engineer. 12+ years. Building multiple products. Father of 3

[Dmytro Shevchenko 🇺🇦 @dschewchenko]

Writing git+chat zk e2ee engine with @rustlang
Backend on @Cloudflare Workers/DO with geo-restricted option EU/US or global.
Web client with @nuxt_js @vuejs @daisyui_ @tailwindcss

[Dmytro Shevchenko 🇺🇦 @dschewchenko]

Paddle approved my new product 🥳

Still proudly sitting at $0 MRR, but payment is no longer the blocker :)

Now the annoying part: make the UX and onboarding clear enough that a stranger does not need me sitting near them.

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Yesterday after work I planned to build.

Instead I spent the evening replying on X, fixing my wording, and trying to explain PreviewChecks without sounding like a bot.

Not a big shipping day, but maybe a real distribution day...

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@Saadeghi Combobox? ;)

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@MicroLaunchHQ Marketing PreviewChecks this week. Free Cloudflare tool for checking X cards, Open Graph, chat previews and basic server response before you share a link. I built it after breaking previews with my own TLS setup :)
https://t.co/ovlRR69cr3

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@FlorinPop17 good, that I can 😅

[Dmytro Shevchenko 🇺🇦 @dschewchenko]

@karakhanyanS I usually order from designer or illustrator friends. AI is fine for mood, but not for final logo files. Vector is not really clean, PNG gets small color bugs, and transparency breaks exactly when you need it.

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@AfolabiDewale Released PreviewChecks. Free tool I built after I broke link previews with my own server/TLS setup. It checks X cards, Open Graph, chat previews and if the server returns content correctly. Runs on Cloudflare. https://t.co/ovlRR69cr3

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@huge_icons Time and focus. Full-time job, 3 daughters, then products at night. I can build, but every task must fit into a small evening slot or it just waits ;(

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@hello_guillaume I use Cloudflare mostly. For small products it costs me almost nothing besides domains and the paid plan for higher limits. Workers, D1, R2, Queues, AI models, Containers, deploy and local dev in one place is just hard to beat.

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@TheoAugust8 PreviewChecks - free tool I built after I broke link previews with my own server/TLS setup. It checks X cards, Open Graph, Pinterest, chat previews and if the server returns content correctly. Runs on Cloudflare. https://t.co/ovlRR69cr3

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@koki7o I know this feeling. Writing the post often feels more unfinished than the product. But if nobody sees the shipped thing, it almost does not exist

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@pmitu Only 1%? My shower metrics are much worse this week :)

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@Dmarketsniper Maybe. I just can't make it big and heavy. After work and family time I need something stupidly small, or I will not keep doing it.

[Dmytro Shevchenko 🇺🇦 @dschewchenko]

Full-time job. 3 daughters. $0 product revenue so far.

I can build and deploy products from zero.

AI agents help me act more like architect/reviewer.

The hard part is marketing: daily focus, experiments and constant analysis.

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Some lock-in, yes. Workers/DO/D1 are Cloudflare-specific, R2 is S3-compatible, Containers are Docker. For small products I accept it because ops and cost stay tiny. If migration becomes a real problem, the product probably worked :)

And there is no problem to migrate DB to external Postgres with Cloudflare Hyperdrive for example. Or some heavy modules migrate to Hetzner.

But really On Cloudflare could be implemented any product

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It's serverless - @CloudflareDev Workers, Durable Objects, R2 Storage(s3 compatible), D1 SQLite database, Queues, Containers(run docker images and call them from Workers), AI Workers(a lot of models for different purpose), Browser Run etc.... A lot of cool things, I love it, it's with good DX and cheap 😊

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@m_zokov running on Cloudflare, so just paying 5$/month subscription and no any other fees ;)

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@m_zokov Then it goes to parking mode :) If I still use it myself, I keep it alive. If nobody uses it, even me, I take the lessons and move to the next experiment.

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@BrunoJaamaa I am earlier than you on revenue, but I would first look at where users repeat the action without being pushed. 1k users with low MRR usually means the value moment is there, but payment moment is not clear yet

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@codedbygene I know this feeling. After work I usually have energy for one serious context only. If I spend it all on posts, coding later feels like starting the engine cold again.