Posts tagged Building in public

2 posts tagged with "building in public"

January 16, 2026

How I Scaled a Telegram Bot to 300k+ Users (Including the Tactics I'm Not Proud Of)

I built an open-source Telegram bot that grew to 300k+ real users, 200+ GitHub stars, and 300+ forks. Here's the brutally honest story of how—including the tactics I'm not proud of.

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November 24, 2025

My 2025 Stack for Shipping 30+ Side Projects While Getting My Master's

How I shipped 30+ projects while getting my MS in Computer Science at ASU. The stack choices that let me build fast, deploy faster, and actually sleep at night. Real lessons from PickMyClass, Alita Robot, and projects serving 250K+ users.

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