20M Rubles a Year on Web Scraping
How an engineering team turned a parsing infrastructure into a sustainable B2B business collecting only public data. Real revenue breakdown, client structure, and legal framework.
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Practitioner Notes
Essays, case studies, and field notes from running data products and internet businesses in Russia for 30+ years.
From 0 to 430,000 RUB/Month. SaaS in Russia, Slowly
A month-by-month account of growing a SaaS product in Russia without venture capital or paid advertising. Including the failures, the plateaus, and what actually moved the needle.
How clickfraud.ru Won an 8M Ruble State Grant
We applied to the Foundation for Innovation Assistance and won. Here is how we evaluated the market, structured the application, and defended the project before technical experts.
Inside a Click Fraud Detection System
How clickfraud.ru uses machine learning and behavioral analysis to separate real clicks from bot traffic. Architecture, signals, and the ongoing arms race against fraudsters.
Why a Site Redesign Can Destroy Your SEO Traffic
We redesigned a site and lost 40% of organic traffic. A technical post-mortem on what went wrong and what to check before any major design overhaul.
Zero to 40M: Building a Software and Parsing Business
The full story of how we built a portfolio of internet products — from early sysadmin days to running a company with 40M+ RUB annual revenue. Every real number included.