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Featured 14 min read

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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January 6, 2026

I Needed Logs, Not a PhD in Elasticsearch — So I Built Logwell

Every logging tool felt like overkill—ELK's operational complexity, Datadog's pricing, Loki's LogQL learning curve. So I built Logwell: one Docker Compose, PostgreSQL-native, real-time streaming. Here's what I learned.

Logging Self-Hosted PostgreSQL SvelteKit Claude Code DevOps Side Projects Open Source OTLP TDD 2026 AI Coding Assistant Observability