Building in public · Remote
Small SaaS products, automation, and internal tools. Mostly mine — occasionally for selected clients.
01 — About
Remote
Async-friendly
Async-friendly
Building the unglamorous middle of products.
I'm Max — an independent developer. I build small SaaS products, automation systems, and internal tools — mostly my own, occasionally for selected clients. I tend to turn messy manual workflows into reliable systems. My core stack is Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, and Firebase. I ship end-to-end: architecture, implementation, deployment, monitoring, iteration. I document the process — notes on the blog, projects + postmortems in the lab. Remote, async-friendly.
02 — Tech Stack
What I reach for daily — and what I'm comfortable in.
Preferred Stack
TypeScriptNode.jsNext.jsFirebaseMongoDB
Also Familiar With
Languages
TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonGoPHP
Frameworks & CMS
ExpressAngularNext.jsReact NativeFlutterTailwind CSSWordPress
Databases
PostgreSQLMySQLSQLiteRedis
DevOps & Tools
DockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CICloudflare
Mobile Platforms
AndroidiOS
APIs & Services
GraphQLRESTOAuth / Firebase AuthWebhooksPayment APIsTelegram BotsEthereumStrapi
AI Integration
OpenAI APIAnthropic APIVercel AI SDKn8n
AI Tools
CursorGitHub CopilotMidjourneyElevenLabsRunway
03 — Experience & Education
15+ years
shipping software.
2021 — present
Independent Developer
Building independent SaaS products, automation systems, and tools. Selective client work.
2018 — 2021
CTO & Co-founder
Mindness LLC
2014 — 2018
Software Engineer
Russian Railways / ICC
2013 — 2014
iOS & C# Developer
Technopark of Novosibirsk (Akademgorodok)
2012 — 2013
Technician
Siberian Transport University IT Dept.
2010 — 2014
Freelance Developer
Early freelance work
Education
Siberian Transport University
2009 — 2014
Specialist Degree (equivalent to Master's)
Faculty of Information Technologies in Business, Information Systems & Technologies
15+
Years shipping
100+
Projects shipped
4
SaaS in beta
8
Ideas in queue
04 — Work
A decade of shipping.
01NeatDueA minimalist invoice builder born from one annoyance: a free tool that refused to let a client skip his own email field. Almost every field is optional, PDFs are clean, and there's no accounting bloat. Free tier for 5 invoices/mo and 3 clients; Pro removes the limits. Growing with SEO only, in public.SaaS2026→02LivedYour life as a grid of dots — days, weeks, months or years from your date of birth to a horizon you choose. Filled dots are behind you, the pulsing one is today, the outlines are what's left. No sign-up, no backend, nothing leaves the browser; export as PNG/SVG/PDF. In the spirit of Tim Urban's 'Life in Weeks' and Timestripe, without the account.Pet Project2026→03ScanwiseA passive website security scanner: DNS/SPF/DMARC, TLS, security headers, exposed secrets and config files, CORS/GraphQL checks, CVE lookup — with AI-generated remediation patches for what it finds. Free scans are live; paid AI reports are still being wired up (card payments turned out to be a story of their own).SaaS2026→04M-B — AI Creative PortfolioHosted at m-b.app — a personal space for non-code AI experiments. Music, comics, video. Made with Suno, Midjourney, and whatever else feels interesting.Pet Project2026→05Critical MassA browser horde survival game for levelsio's 2026 Vibe Jam, where moving IS the weapon — build pressure to power your guns, stand still and the swarm wins. Inspired by Vampire Survivors / Brotato. Built with Phaser 3 + TypeScript; 90%+ of the code written by AI, per the jam's rules. Instant-load, no login, free.Browser Game2026→
06 — Writing
Lab Notes.
Occasional emails about tools I build, experiments I run, and useful things I find. Free. No ads. No fixed schedule.
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Recent writing →
essaysSoon Everyone Builds Their Own — And Most SaaS Won't Survive ItSep 19, 2026
buildLived: I Turned My Life Into a Grid of DotsSep 2, 2026
buildI Built an Invoice Tool Because of One Required Email FieldJul 19, 2026
buildUghOkay v2: I rebuilt my anti-doomscroll app natively in SwiftJun 23, 2026
buildI turned a stranger's Excel checklist into a calm life trackerJun 22, 2026