Anton Shakhov

31 | Software Engineer | Solopreneur
· ccemaphore (open source)
· (free)
revenue: −$21.54 and falling

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

It took me 10 months to legally sell a $5 app

Not to build it - to be ALLOWED to sell it

I'm a Russian dev living in Georgia 🇬🇪
Here's everything the "just ship it" crowd never sees 🧵

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

@max_founder makes sense when the products are similar, but mine are all over the place - a SaaS, a parent/kid mobile app, and a macOS app handling sensitive data.

the kids one especially feels like a completely different legal world

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

how do you handle privacy policy and terms of use for your apps?

generator, template, lawyer, or copy one from a bigger product and hope for the best 🤔

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

@josephmiclaus the experience part is the bit I'm missing 😄

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

oh shoot v5.1

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

@mhammadsaani same 😄 just hoping nobody reads it closely enough

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

@LeSussyCat cheaper than a lawyer honestly 😀

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

@samongaro_ makes sense

at what point did you bring the lawyer in - before launch or once you had real users?

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

@RandomBitsDev @shownotover that tracks - Composer is Cursor's own model and Grok is cheap, so limits are generous on that setup.

I was running frontier models through it (Fable 5, Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol), and that's where it burned down in days. Different usage, both true.

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

@shownotover you're welcome 🙂

I run both now - Claude Code for frontend and design, Codex for backend and infra. Not a benchmark, just what I keep noticing in daily work.

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

@Saadalikc02 flutter bro🤝

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

My stack right now:

Frontend → Next.js
Mobile → Flutter
Backend → Go

What are you running?

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

@sattyyouneed vibe sleeping

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

next $1M SaaS idea: an agent whose only job is to tell you "that's enough refactoring, just ship this shit"

I'd pay for it and ignore it

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

A. soft delete is a storage decision, not an API one

The moment 'deleted: true' is in your contract, every client is coupled to your schema. Switch to hard delete or archiving later and they all break.

DELETE is also idempotent by spec, which is exactly what you want here. PATCH isn't.

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

@oleks01 it makes me cry 🥲

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

name a technology you've been nodding along about without actually understanding it

I'll go first: AI

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

@ajmal_jalal26 same honestly 😀

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

unedited git log from my side project 🫠

the number of dots was the only changelog I shipped in 9 months

be honest, how bad is yours?

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

@jonathan_wilke Congrats, genuinely wild numbers 🫡

[Anton Shakhov @hakkazuu]

@jonathan_wilke Doesn't feel like too much to me.
Though I made a quieter version out of curiosity - better or worse? 🙂