I was focused on a Docker course. Doing good progress. But I wanted to get back to working on @JonliChatBot, as the month is coming to an end.

In my dev environment I've already added profile pics and now I'm working on adding regions (top 118 countries using Telegram).

I also wanted to take a peek at what the giants are doing and what's working for them, so that I know where to shift my focus and time.

I've tried ome.tv on my phone and I have to be honest – it's one of the worst UX I've ever seen.

Nevertheless, according to public data, in December 2024 alone ome.tv's revenue was about $400 000. They use a freemium model with a ~$8 monthly subscription.

They don't have as much features as their competitors like Azar, Tinder, etc. Yes, I consider Tinder to be their indirectish competitor too.

Azar's annual revenue though (spoiler alert, also according to public data), is about $47.6 million. Yeah…

Sure, huge difference, but also goes to show that even with a shitty UX, ome.tv pulls-off a ~$4 million a year revenue.

Anyway, main features of ome.tv (based on a quck glance at their app) were connections, direct messages, filtering by gender and country, and Tinder like features.

Either they're not making $400 000 a month or they're not interested in improving their UX (for whatever reason).

Just pushed a minor update to @JonliChatBot. Let me know if you'll have issues and please send screenshots. Until then, I'll work on region and gender filtering.

I'm also considering two things:

1. Substitute the "Next chat" button with a simple swipe gesture
2. Remove the hide camera and mute microphone button (or move them somewhere else into settings)

How my setup looks right now

https://www.threads.net/@ramzcoder/post/DFDBs9MMMqD

My first popularish post in English on Threads

Even Aivars Meijers replied, who I really respect

This just motivated me even more to keep posting in English

This channel is now @ramzcoder

Have you seen DeepSeek-r1 LLM's benchmarks?

It matches ChatGPT o1 at a lower price.

Try using it, it's even FREE and can run locally via ollama.

https://deepseek.com

They also have a decent chat app

Guys, suggest a few places to work and have a cup of coffee in Tashkent

Integrated Sentry yesterday to monitor frontend errors

How I feel after posting to @ramzcoderuz and disappearing for another 10 days

I wanted to make a small telegram mini app idea quickly. Here's the stack I chose:

🗻 Biome – for linting, formatting
🥯 Bun – for package management
🌌 NPM workspaces – for multiple packages in a monorepo
🔥 Hono – for the backend API
⚛️ React 19 – for the frontend
🌐 Redux – for React state management and overall architecture
🚦 React Router – for frontend routing
⚡ Vite – frontend tooling
🌊 Tailwind – frontend styling
☁️ Cloudflare – for DB and API
🌧️ Drizzle – as an ORM for Cloudflare's D1 DB

Also, I'll make this open source as soon as I complete it

I never knew you could open an LLC in US while being a non-US resident, while living in a different country and while even being employed. This changed my perspective on work and personal projects (in a good way)