Services

Bespoke software and bots

Telegram bots, scrapers, desktop utilities and internal tools.

The category for work that fits neither a website nor an app: a bot taking orders in Telegram, a scraper collecting prices every night, a utility three people in accounting use that quietly holds up a week's work. These are almost never public and rarely pretty, but their value counts directly — in hours that stop being spent by hand.

What the work covers

A Telegram bot: intake, payment, notifications, an admin panel, exports
Data collection: scheduling, resilience to the source changing its markup, export to a spreadsheet or database — within what the source's rules and the law allow
An internal tool: an interface over your database or spreadsheets so data stops being edited by hand
A Windows desktop utility on Tauri: local file processing where the web is awkward or impossible
Glue between services that ship no integration for each other: CRM ↔ spreadsheets ↔ messenger
One-off migrations and data untangling: turning somebody else's export into something workable

Who this fits

A fit: the task is narrow, repeats, and is done by hand from a written instruction today
A fit: the tool is for your own people, not the market — so design is something you can deliberately skip
A fit: you are willing to count the payoff in hours saved rather than in how the interface feels
Not a fit: collection that works around a source's rules, its paywall or the law. I do not take that work
Not a fit: a bot expected to replace the website and the support desk at once — three tasks, three budgets
Not a fit: "clone that service" without any right to the data it stands on

Stack

Python
aiogram
Playwright
PostgreSQL
TypeScript
Tauri

What moves the price

How many scenarios the bot has, and whether they include payment, roles and an admin panel
How resilient collection must be: a source with stable markup, or a protected site that changes weekly
The volume and quality of the source data that has to be untangled before anyone can use it
Where the result goes: a file, a spreadsheet, your database, or someone else's closed and undocumented API
How long it must run without me: a single execution, or a nightly schedule with alerts on failure
Whether support is needed: collection breaks when the source changes — that is not a defect, it is the nature of the task

What you keep

Sources and run instructions in your repository
A deployed, running instance on your server or in your cloud — not on my machine
Bot tokens, keys and access on your own accounts
A description of the schedule and the alerts: exactly how you find out the nightly run did not happen
A clear plan for the day the data source changes

Packages

Daemon

Custom software / bots

Custom software: a bot, a routine automated, a data collector, an internal tool.

from $5,000

Timeline: 2–5 weeks
Payment by stage: 50 / 50

Included

A bot on Telegram or another messenger of your choice
A routine operation automated, with an execution log
Collecting and normalising data from external sources
A control panel where the process needs a human operator
Deployment on your own server and handover of the source

Not included

Working around another service's technical limits or captchas
Collecting personal data without a lawful basis
Bulk messaging and engagement farming
Support after handover — that is Retainer

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Retainer

Ongoing

Ongoing support: a block of hours every month and an agreed response window.

from $2,000/mo

Timeline: minimum 3 months

Included

Twenty hours a month for fixes and development
Incident response within two working hours — weekdays, 10:00 to 19:00 Moscow time
Dependency updates and triage of new vulnerabilities
Backups watched, and restores tested
A monthly report: what was done and where the hours went

Not included

Rolling unused hours into the next month — the fee reserves capacity rather than buying a pack of hours; for one-off work there is Hour
Round-the-clock on-call
A new product from scratch — that is a project of its own
Hosting, licences and third-party services

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Hour

Ongoing

Hourly work: one task, a consultation, a review of someone else's code.

$120/hr

Timeline: minimum block 4 hours

Included

A four-hour minimum block
A time report describing what the hours went on
A review of existing code and infrastructure, with written findings
A consultation on architecture, on the stack, or on someone else's quote

Not included

A whole project — past a few days of work a package costs less
Scheduled on-call — that is Retainer
Availability on a given day without booking it in advance
Work that starts before the task is written down

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