Veniamin Bakalinskiy 💡🚀

What's next? Honestly - no idea. The world's a mess. But we're getting better at automating everything that can be automated. There's a real shot at another 20 years. We'll see. Champagne for everyone 🥂

20 years. 3500+ corporate clients. Twitter, General Motors, Daewoo, doTerra... Thousands of translators, editors, PMs. Tons of real problems solved - legal docs, medical files, last-minute disasters. Not bad for a company with no plan.

Today my first company - iTrex Language Services - turns 20. Would love to say everything went according to plan. But there was no plan, so... nothing could go wrong, right? 😄

"Build it for special needs kids first" - everyone said it was too niche. Then 50+ people asked: what about language learning for ALL kids? Adults too? Yeah. That's next. First I'm fixing CanReadNow. Then we expand. Same mechanics. Different vocabulary logic.

Pretty solid week)) CanReadNow (reading app for kids with special needs) - launched a week ago, already 20+ real users. Every 4th one comes back daily. A bit embarrassed - still tons of bugs, pushing updates every 2-3 days. But it's alive, and that already feels good. AIAC (AI business automation) also moving - clients getting results with actual numbers. Small wins))

#AI is a bubble? At @Google interviews they ask you to vibe code. Hype will burst. But inside it is already your new job 🤖

@robertInboxAc @OpenAI @perplexity_ai I don't know if future iterations bring more value, but sure they will not bring more security ))

So, @OpenAI dropped its AI browser yesterday. #Atlas. Not doing a review — there are plenty already. And it’s pretty obvious: just Chrome with GPT glued on. Same story as #Comet from @perplexity_ai .

Oh, and sure — “private mode turns AI off.” Of course it does. Let’s all believe in corporate honesty together… but maybe keep those questions handy.

AI isn’t allowed into closed Telegram chats, private forums, hidden site sections. But if you’re there through this browser — the door’s open. You become its eyes. Cool, huh?

Made one tiny mistake in Make — burned a month’s worth of operations in 10 minutes. Switched to #n8n the same day. It was a year ago. Only regret? Not doing it sooner

So yeah, I'll be the boring one again: first figure out the 'what' and 'why,' then you can figure out where to shove your automation. Btw, everyone gets that AI-powered spam isn't just "modern," it's also way more expensive, right? 😉

Existential stuff: why the hell are you even doing this? what's the big marketing idea you're supposed to cram in there? and what's the grand "customer journey" that'll bring you the money and fame?

Well, let's continue about AI agents that everyone wants and no one can get to work 😉 BTW, I built one for myself, but yet too busy to use it. 🤦🏻‍♂️ (I was planning on writing about it... who knows when. But someone literally asked about it in a chat today, so I answered there and couldn't put it off.)