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building products + tools — with ai agents, from limassol.
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▸ CH.01 — WELCOME ABOARD
an engineer, broadcasting from limassol
i build software with AI agents, keep a few small products of my own running, and brew beer, distill moonshine, and cook off-screen. no agency, no decks — pull up a chair.
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matchpro.io
tune in → me@evgentus.ru
or drop a postcard · tg / @evgentus88
or drop a postcard · tg / @evgentus88
— hello, i am
Evgeniy Kuznetsov — engineer.
I build a few small products of my own — I design, code, and run them, sometimes with friends — and write about it now and then. No agency. No pitch deck.
I build software with AI agents, day to day. Based in Limassol, Cyprus — the sea is a 12-minute walk. Off-screen I brew beer, distill moonshine, and cook.
- ▸ based in
- limassol, cy
- ▸ work
- engineer · fintech / payments
- ▸ building
- a few small products + agent-monorepo (oss)
- ▸ off-screen
- beer, moonshine, cooking
- ▸ headcount
- 1 (+ friends, sometimes)
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P.S.
don't call me a founder —i just make things 🛠
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…something new
a booking service — appointments, procedures, reservations — built to work across different kinds of business. still cooking.
role
just me, for now
draftOPEN ↗
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▸ CH.04 / agent-monorepo · oss tooling
agent-monorepo
a boilerplate for teams who let agents write most of the code. contracts first, humans second, agents third.
runtimes
nest · nuxt · flutter
contracts
openapi + asyncapi
license
mit
role
author · maintainer
oss · toolingOPEN ↗
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▸ CH.04 / kind · recently launched
kind.events
a calm map of what's happening this weekend. curated, no paid placements, no noise.
role
solo + 1 friend
consumerOPEN ↗
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▸ CH.04 / matchpro · matching by meaning
matchpro.io
a privacy-first job marketplace that matches people by meaning, not keywords.
role
solo · design + code + ops
featuredOPEN ↗
¶ case study — 01·semantic matching·solotags: matching · semantic · privacy
The old engine matched keywords . The new one matches by meaning .
M atchpro runs on one opinion: matching is not search. for years the matching leaned on exact rules — keyword overlap and hard filters. that works while everyone shares a vocabulary, and gets brittle the moment they don't. so it moved from words to meaning.
"Matching is not search. Search rewards precision. Matching rewards being interestingly close."
- 01match by meaningcompare a profile and a role by what they mean — close-but-differently-worded fits surface instead of getting missed.
- 02keep the hard rulesmeaning finds candidates; explicit constraints still decide who qualifies. boring rules earn their keep.
- 03don't lean on one vocabularymeaning travels where keyword tables don't — past a single field or language.
- 04privacy by defaultmatch over anonymized profiles. identity revealed only by mutual consent.
match qualityfinds interestingly-close people keyword matching walked past.
reachworks past one field and one language — no per-field synonym table.
privacymatches over anonymized profiles; identity by mutual consent.
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№ 015long read2026-06-13 · 12 min№ 016case study2026-06-13 · 6 min
see all posts →long read
Design systems as invariants: building a token pipeline from scratch
part 1 of the claude-driven monorepo series — a design layer whose rules make the wrong thing impossible, not just discouraged.
case study
Matching is not search: from keywords to meaning
why a job marketplace threw out keyword matching — and what it kept.
A Philosophy of Software Design
by John Ousterhout
Boards of Canada — on repeat
Music Has the Right to Children
♪
brewing beer,
distilling,
cooking.
distilling,
cooking.
typescript★
—the default
vue · nuxt★
—web
react
—web, when it fits
nestjs · prisma
—backend + orm
flutter · dart
—mobile
postgres · pgvector★
—data + vectors
cursor★
—editor
claude code★
—ai pair
terminal.app
—terminal
open design
—design
macbook pro★
m4 max · 64gbwork machine
vercel★
—web hosting
hetzner
—servers · vps
google cloud · aws
—cloud
cloudflare
—dns · cdn
resend★
—email
stripe★
—payments
openrouter★
—llm gateway
sentry
—error tracking
bigquery
—analytics
meilisearch
—search
redis
—cache · queue
Drop me a line — I read every one.
Best for work inquiries, kind.events partnerships, and folks curious about matchpro.io. Worst for cold sales.
▸ email
me@evgentus.ru
▸ telegram
@evgentus88
▸ github
github.com/evgentus-cy
▸ instagram
instagram.com/evgentus.ru
▸ linkedin
linkedin.com/in/eugene-kuznetsov-37aa1057
if it's 3am your time, i might be asleep. otherwise i'll reply within a day.
▸ CH.09 — COLOPHON
the site you're on was designed out loud — here's the transcript.
no framework templates, no Figma-to-code handoff. i built everything in the browser, talking to AI agents as collaborators. cozy-CRT direction, light + dark themes, responsive + a11y pass — all iterated live.
every pixel you see
was argued about.
was argued about.
— timeline · phases of signal
phase 01
tuning the dial
picked the voice (broadcast, warm, honest). chose 4 fonts. drew deploy. iterated directions until 'Cozy CRT' locked.
phase 02
channels live
hi-fi on every section: hero, about, work, case, writing, now, uses, signal, 404, footer. iterated in-browser, not in a mockup.
phase 03
paper mode
light theme that isn't just 'dark theme inverted'. re-tuned amber, green, shadows, scanlines so it reads like sun-bleached paper.
phase 04
responsive & a11y
responsive specs, design tokens locked, a11y audit, light + dark themes verified. wrote this very page. deploy got a nap.
▸ routes
/ home · you are here
/about who & why
/work case studies
/work/:slug case study
/writing the journal
/writing/:slug one post at a time
/now what i'm working on now
/uses the stack · right here ↓
/signal say hi
/* the lost channel
FRAMEWORK
nuxt 4 · static ssg
prerendered, ssr-rendered html. no runtime data fetching.
STYLING
tailwind 4 + design tokens
every value is a css var (var(--…)). token pipeline → css custom properties.
CONTENT
@nuxt/content · markdown
writes like a notebook, ships like a site
FONTS
Space Grotesk · Fraunces · JetBrains Mono · Caveat
display / serif italic / mono / hand
HOSTING
static · prerendered
fast enough that you don't notice
ANALYTICS
none
no cookies, no banner, no tracking
— five rules, taped to the monitor
RULE 01
one signal per screen
red is never decorative. if it's red, tap it.
RULE 02
warm, not cold
dark mode that smells like coffee, not a server rack.
RULE 03
type does the heavy lifting
four typefaces. one job each. no decoration.
RULE 04
motion carries meaning
blink = now. pulse = live. everything else sits still.
RULE 05
deploy everywhere
if a screen felt lonely, the cat moved in.
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cat