Denis Kataev

A software engineer and digital entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience building technology platforms.

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Short form video traffic is fully automated. 10 clips a day on one project, built and published without me. One hit 100k views in three days. Lesson: learn to generate free traffic first, then build the product. Most of us do it backwards.
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#ai #automation #video #growth

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Short form video automation rolled out to every project. Views up across all of them, no breakout hit yet. A rising baseline on separate accounts proves more than one viral clip. It isolates the variable. Algorithms need volume first.
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#ai #automation #video #growth

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Automated traffic from short form video is the channel I build next. Ran the hypothesis again and it held. Now tuning the format toward a million views. One viral clip is luck. A template that repeats is a distribution channel.
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#ai #automation #video #growth

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Automated video content means I never open an editor. Changed the template on one project and the first Instagram clip hit 9k views. You are not making videos, you are running experiments. Fix the template once, every future clip improves.
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#ai #automation #video #growth

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Programmatic video means every frame is rendered from code and data, not generated by a model. No melting faces, no generic AI look. Studio grade, deterministic, repeatable. Short form is done. Long form on autopilot is what I build next.
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#ai #automation #video #dev

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Programmatic video generation runs my entire social output. Shipped new templates today. Every clip renders from data, unique every time, zero editing. If your content needs a human to assemble it, it will never scale. New design is live.
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#ai #automation #video #design

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

New https://t.co/lIRl1BFeCa version approved. Spent the evening filling out LinkedIn and listing every project. Half of them I had forgotten I built. When you ship constantly you never see the pile. Write it down or it does not exist to anyone but you.
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#indie #dev #ai #career

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

15 years of code. Shipped AI agents on Base, a US car market database, a Chrome extension, MCP security tooling. All solo, all live. Portfolio at https://t.co/vWj5OJ1Ena. Taking on complex builds now. Async only, no calls. Send me the hard one.
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#dev #ai #freelance #indie

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Chrome rejected the https://t.co/lIRl1BFeCa update. I listed the music genres inside the extension. A classifier read it as keyword abuse, not a feature list. Store review is not a human reading your page. Describe features in sentences, never as lists.
#chrome #indie #seo #dev

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Promoting https://t.co/lIRl1BFeCa with Product Hunt and cold emails to bloggers. SEO I know cold. This is different. No script, no dashboard, no rerun. Just a message to a stranger and silence. Everything I cannot automate still makes me uncomfortable.
#indie #marketing #seo #ai

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Shipping an update to https://t.co/lIRl1BFeCa. Better UX, site finally translated. The extension market is full of tools that work fine and look ancient. Where everyone ignores design, looking good is the whole differentiator. I use it daily myself.
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#chrome #indie #design #ai

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

@owenreed_dev I use a lot of stuff in my browser, and every extension I installed had a terrible design, and half of them didn't work properly. So I just made my own. https://t.co/lIRl1BFeCa

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Launched https://t.co/lIRl1BFeCa, 12 productivity tools in one browser extension. Day one: 6 impressions, 4 installs. Tiny reach, 67% conversion. Early numbers do not measure growth, they test your listing. Sign up and get 7 days pro.
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#chrome #indie #productivity #ai

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Chrome approved the extension with zero questions. Two days later it still does not show in search. Store listings index with a delay, same as Google. Approval is not distribution. Launch day is when indexing starts, not when traffic arrives.
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#chrome #indie #dev #seo

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

First time shipping to a store instead of my own server. No deploy button, no rollback, just waiting. The real test comes later. If I still open it every day in a month, it works. If I forget about it, nobody else will use it either.
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#indie #dev #chrome #ai

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Planned to submit the extension today. Found bugs, added isolated modes instead. My rule is ship v1 fast and fix later. Store review kills that. A rejection costs days of waiting, not one deploy. Where you cannot hotfix, polish before you send.
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#indie #dev #chrome #ai

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Chrome Store needs localized banners. 20 languages, dozens of assets, every small edit multiplied by 20. Built a generator instead. One source, change once, rebuild everything. If a task scales with a variable, never do it by hand.
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#automation #dev #indie #ai

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Building a browser extension to control my own attention. First time touching extensions. No market research, no trend chasing. I could not stay focused and nothing existing fit. If the pain is real enough to build for yourself, others have it.
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#indie #dev #focus #ai

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Launched https://t.co/9YrcSnJRii. It tracks what every MCP server executes on your machine, flags code changes, logs uptime and installs daily. All data open and free. Skill security scanner next. You audit npm packages. Start auditing MCP.
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#ai #security #mcp #dev

[Denis Kataev @theevoq]

Running too many projects at once. A bit here, a bit there, nothing finished. The fear of not touching the others is what burns me out. I build AI agents that scale infinitely and still cannot clone the one bottleneck. Me.
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#indie #ai #burnout #dev