Mike

The journey.

1. Apr – Sep 2025

   The Laravel Notebook

   Early on, the channel reads like a Laravel notebook: shouldRun() for conditional migrations, caching whole responses, model events and a persistent MySQL connection tip. Alongside it sit a blog post on WordPress plugin development and an Amharic post pitching @gebeyabuilder, a bot it calls its own that turns Telegram shop channels into e-commerce stores.

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2. Dec 2025 – Feb 2026

   Going Mobile

   In December 2025 a #project post shares screenshots of a localized appointment manager, the channel's first React Native project. The idea is a profile link small businesses can share so customers request services or book, in local languages like Amharic and Oromigna. January brings an Expo starter template find, and February a plan to explore RAG.

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3. May – Jun 2026

   Agents on a Budget

   In May 2026 the channel is building an AI customer-support agent for Telegram, trying to avoid a vector database so it stays cheap enough for shared hosting. It can already book appointments and answer questions, and in June the channel calls it done, with vector embeddings maybe coming in a later version.

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4. Aug – Sep 2026

   Agents Meet the Office

   In August 2026 an agent rollout begins with one organization's finance department, and the workflows turn out messier than expected. In September the channel shows a graph that maps how a company's data connects, then wonders if it should stop after seeing Grok build a better version.

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Building now.

Start here.

1. 01

   A blog post on WordPress plugin development, written to share what the channel had learned.

   recently i have been doing wordpress plugin development and i thought about writing a blog to share things i know on the topic, so i wrote this blog if you are...

   Apr 18, 2025695 views
2. 02

   Screenshots and the plan behind the localized appointment manager, a first React Native project.

   Here are the screenshots of an app am building, my plan is to build a localized appointment manager for small businesses. They could share their profile link a...

   Dec 26, 2025269 views
3. 03

   How the Telegram support agent tries to skip a vector database to stay cheap enough for shared hosting.

   am i building agentic customer support for telegram since everyone uses telegram locally with this new telegram chat automation feature . i am trying as much a...

   May 24, 2026492 views
4. 04

   A candid update on fitting an agent to a finance department's messy workflows.

   Started implementing it for one of them and we have decided to start from finance department and ohhhh boy things are getting messy 😅 The workflow of finance...

   Aug 6, 202649 views
5. 05

   A one-line take on who building in public is really for.

   building in public only works if the "public" is you potential user (target)

   Feb 22, 202657 views

In their own words.

Fresh from the channel.