Field notes on building products with AI.
Practical articles about Telegram Mini Apps, AI agents, MVP development and business websites: costs, timelines, common mistakes and lessons from real projects.
Dantiva got its first paying customer. Then the product changed again
A founder update on Dantiva: the first confirmed purchase, the first monthly subscription, a rebuilt light workspace, a Gemini LLM studio, GPT Image 2.5, and two Croatian innovation applications.
ReadThe model is the easy part. What building Dantiva taught me
Build notes on Dantiva, an AI photo-to-video studio on Google's models: three front doors, a reserve and refund ledger, a rename I refused to finish, three pricing rounds, and the wall the product hit.
ReadI'm not an engineer. I fine-tuned my own language model on a MacBook Air
How I fine-tuned Qwen3 8B with LoRA on a MacBook Air with 16 GB, four attempts, 576 examples, where the metrics lied, and what the model actually learned.
ReadA RAG chatbot on your company knowledge base: what it is and when it pays off
RAG in plain language: which businesses benefit from a bot that answers from their documents, what to prepare, where projects fail, why a pilot takes two weeks.
ReadPrompt engineer is not a job anymore: which AI skills the market actually buys
Why the prompt engineer title dropped out of hiring plans, what it pays in the US and Russia, which skills the market buys instead and who to hire.
ReadWhat a Forward Deployed Engineer is and why a small business should care
Where the Forward Deployed Engineer role comes from, why postings grew 1,000%, what an FDE does on site and how a small business gets that work without hiring.
ReadThe EU AI Act for small businesses in Croatia: what to do before 2027
What the EU AI Act means for a small business in Croatia: risk tiers, deadlines to 2028, duties for chatbots, CV screening and generated content, a checklist.
ReadThe AI job market in 2026: who gets hired, what they earn, and which roles are fading
The AI labor market in September 2026 from LinkedIn, WEF, Stanford, PwC and Bain data: the most in-demand AI roles, salaries in the US and Europe, what grows and what fades.
ReadAI agent or plain automation: where the real ROI is
When simple automation is enough and when an AI agent pays off: ROI in hours, response time and errors, and why Gartner expects 40% of agent projects to fail.
ReadHow much does it cost to implement an AI agent in 2026
What drives AI agent cost in 2026: process, integrations, data, evaluation, hosting and model usage, and how freelance and in-house compare to a scoped project.
ReadHow I build websites with Lovable and get them ready to launch
What Lovable is, when it works well for websites and MVPs, and why a strong first draft still needs product thinking, SEO, testing and launch work.
ReadParser, bot, service or agent: what to automate a process with
How to pick the right AI automation tool: when a parser is enough, when you need a Telegram bot, when an internal service, and when an AI agent. Timelines, budgets and the usual mistakes.
ReadAI agents for business: what I learned building my own team
A practical guide to AI agents for business: how agents differ from chatbots, which processes to automate and how to run a safe first pilot.
ReadTelegram Bot vs Telegram Mini App: What to Build
When a Telegram bot is enough and when you need a mini app: platform limits, build time, real project examples, and how to upgrade later.
ReadSolo Builder or Agency: Who Should Build Your MVP?
A practical checklist for picking between one strong builder and an agency for your MVP, site or bot, with 2025-2026 rate data and questions to ask.
ReadWhat You Can Actually Ship in Two Weeks with AI Tools
A realistic two-week scope with AI tools: a landing page with a lead bot, an MVP with auth and one core flow, or an AI agent for one process.
ReadWho to Hire for a Website, Bot or MVP in Croatia in 2026
Zagreb agency, freelancer, offshore team or a solo product builder: real prices, timelines and the questions to settle before you sign.
ReadHow AI search engines decide what to cite
What makes ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews pick a source, and the page changes that get a small site into those answers.
ReadWhat a Telegram mini app costs in 2026
Price bands for Telegram mini apps and bots in 2026, what pushes the number up, and how to scope a first version that ships in a few weeks.
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