Changes Coming in 2026

I was laid off from my last job, so starting in 2026 I’m going independent for at least six months and will be building my own product full-time. I’ll try working full-time on my dream of independence and freedom.

This also means I’m stepping far outside my comfort zone, so the free products and public work I do may temporarily receive less love - I’ll need to discipline myself and stay focused.

What will happen with open-source projects

I don’t foresee any major consequences for FlowMVI, except that I’ll make a stable release and won’t be rewriting anything for now (there were plans for 4.0, but not right now).

As for Respawn… It’s still in a limbo zone of existence and yet not, so I think I’ll finish work on the last release, which has been significantly delayed due to being busy with other projects and technical refactorings that dependencies imposed on me. I’ll release new cool features, but otherwise it’s been sitting on the shelf of completed projects for a while now.

What I’ll be doing

I don’t quite know yet what I’ll be doing in 2026, which specific project I’ll be working on with the goal of monetization. It will definitely be something with AI and most likely B2B, because the story with Respawn taught me that B2C doesn’t suit me.

What will happen with the blog

There will probably be more Build in Public style posts here, because I love writing about development, but lately I’ve been feeling quite a bit of pressure due to 400+ developers joining my Russian Telegram channel. I don’t want to turn the blog into a dev channel. For that, there’s my website, my LinkedIn, my newsletter, where you can get all the same content without the overhead of personal posts. So I’ll be writing to the Telegram channel in a microblog format.

Immediate plans

In the near term, I want to step away from programming because I’ve exhausted all my creative resources, and overall it’s been suppressed by the fact that I’ve been working a lot with my head in the sand. I need to find inspiration and brainstorm ideas for projects that will help achieve my dream, and plan out a lot of things. Because right now the main thing is to figure out what I’ll be obsessed with for the next six months+.

The only shame is the Codex subscription for 200 bucks that will expire in two months if I don’t figure out what I’ll be doing. And I’m not sure if I’ll renew the subscription for 200 dollars, because now it will all be on my dime. Only if I have a really cool idea and need a ton of code, I’ll buy expensive subscriptions. But for now the limits of Codex for 20 dollars are enough to write a solid amount of code.