Michal Dovrtel
@iagh.cz
🖋 Designer 💻 Developer 🇨🇿 Slant - branding agency
I dabble in everything, love sports, design, computers, admire Baťa, and can’t resist nerdy jokes.
I dabble in everything, love sports, design, computers, admire Baťa, and can’t resist nerdy jokes.
We had four retention numbers at StudyFi. They disagreed by up to 2×.
So technically we had zero 😅
Now there's one. A day counts only if a student actually studied. Opening the app doesn't. The paywall doesn't.
And the day ends at 4am local. Because students.
So technically we had zero 😅
Now there's one. A day counts only if a student actually studied. Opening the app doesn't. The paywall doesn't.
And the day ends at 4am local. Because students.
October 13, 2026 at 7:34 AM
We had four retention numbers at StudyFi. They disagreed by up to 2×.
So technically we had zero 😅
Now there's one. A day counts only if a student actually studied. Opening the app doesn't. The paywall doesn't.
And the day ends at 4am local. Because students.
So technically we had zero 😅
Now there's one. A day counts only if a student actually studied. Opening the app doesn't. The paywall doesn't.
And the day ends at 4am local. Because students.
Built myself a trading agent.
- sifts through hundreds of headlines a day, business and plain lifestyle news alike
- turns that into trade ideas
- I say yes or no
- only then does anything touch the broker
- sifts through hundreds of headlines a day, business and plain lifestyle news alike
- turns that into trade ideas
- I say yes or no
- only then does anything touch the broker
October 9, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Built myself a trading agent.
- sifts through hundreds of headlines a day, business and plain lifestyle news alike
- turns that into trade ideas
- I say yes or no
- only then does anything touch the broker
- sifts through hundreds of headlines a day, business and plain lifestyle news alike
- turns that into trade ideas
- I say yes or no
- only then does anything touch the broker
18 years of American football, mostly as a running back.
Best thing I learned: run north. No dancing, no sideline to sideline bullsh*t. Find the hole, hit it, get the yards.
Turns out that's my whole dev process too. Pick the gap. Go. Get sh*t done 🏈
Best thing I learned: run north. No dancing, no sideline to sideline bullsh*t. Find the hole, hit it, get the yards.
Turns out that's my whole dev process too. Pick the gap. Go. Get sh*t done 🏈
October 6, 2026 at 9:06 AM
18 years of American football, mostly as a running back.
Best thing I learned: run north. No dancing, no sideline to sideline bullsh*t. Find the hole, hit it, get the yards.
Turns out that's my whole dev process too. Pick the gap. Go. Get sh*t done 🏈
Best thing I learned: run north. No dancing, no sideline to sideline bullsh*t. Find the hole, hit it, get the yards.
Turns out that's my whole dev process too. Pick the gap. Go. Get sh*t done 🏈
Few crazy months at StudyFi. New infra, smaller cloud bill, a new market, our own tools instead of big SaaS. And a bot that fixes our bugs (we'll see 😅)
Now the fun part. Freemium. Making the first 7 days actually useful, so people stay because they want to.
Team, you rock 🙏
Now the fun part. Freemium. Making the first 7 days actually useful, so people stay because they want to.
Team, you rock 🙏
October 2, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Few crazy months at StudyFi. New infra, smaller cloud bill, a new market, our own tools instead of big SaaS. And a bot that fixes our bugs (we'll see 😅)
Now the fun part. Freemium. Making the first 7 days actually useful, so people stay because they want to.
Team, you rock 🙏
Now the fun part. Freemium. Making the first 7 days actually useful, so people stay because they want to.
Team, you rock 🙏
maude started as my open-source side project, built mostly at night.
It's beautiful to see it integrate more and more into StudyFi.
Latest piece: flow now talks straight to Orbit, the tracker we use there. Plan opens the ticket, execute reports progress, done closes it.
Who manages who now? 😅
It's beautiful to see it integrate more and more into StudyFi.
Latest piece: flow now talks straight to Orbit, the tracker we use there. Plan opens the ticket, execute reports progress, done closes it.
Who manages who now? 😅
September 29, 2026 at 7:50 AM
maude started as my open-source side project, built mostly at night.
It's beautiful to see it integrate more and more into StudyFi.
Latest piece: flow now talks straight to Orbit, the tracker we use there. Plan opens the ticket, execute reports progress, done closes it.
Who manages who now? 😅
It's beautiful to see it integrate more and more into StudyFi.
Latest piece: flow now talks straight to Orbit, the tracker we use there. Plan opens the ticket, execute reports progress, done closes it.
Who manages who now? 😅
What YNAB taught me:
- give every crown a job
- track everything
- stop paying for stuff you don't need
So I cancelled it and wrote my own in three weeks.
Textbook execution 👇
- give every crown a job
- track everything
- stop paying for stuff you don't need
So I cancelled it and wrote my own in three weeks.
Textbook execution 👇
September 25, 2026 at 12:19 PM
What YNAB taught me:
- give every crown a job
- track everything
- stop paying for stuff you don't need
So I cancelled it and wrote my own in three weeks.
Textbook execution 👇
- give every crown a job
- track everything
- stop paying for stuff you don't need
So I cancelled it and wrote my own in three weeks.
Textbook execution 👇
Bye bye ClickUp.
We built our own tracker. Three weeks, 1630 tasks moved.
Not a flex. It ships an MCP server, so Claude Code reads and writes tasks directly. Every card shows where the agent is. Planning, executing, validating, done.
The tracker is the cockpit now 🔥
We built our own tracker. Three weeks, 1630 tasks moved.
Not a flex. It ships an MCP server, so Claude Code reads and writes tasks directly. Every card shows where the agent is. Planning, executing, validating, done.
The tracker is the cockpit now 🔥
September 22, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Bye bye ClickUp.
We built our own tracker. Three weeks, 1630 tasks moved.
Not a flex. It ships an MCP server, so Claude Code reads and writes tasks directly. Every card shows where the agent is. Planning, executing, validating, done.
The tracker is the cockpit now 🔥
We built our own tracker. Three weeks, 1630 tasks moved.
Not a flex. It ships an MCP server, so Claude Code reads and writes tasks directly. Every card shows where the agent is. Planning, executing, validating, done.
The tracker is the cockpit now 🔥
maude cloud is open. free pilot, no card.
€19 per project later. not per seat. invite the whole team, the number doesn't move.
still MIT, still free to self-host forever.
cloud.maude.sh
want in? DM me 🔥
€19 per project later. not per seat. invite the whole team, the number doesn't move.
still MIT, still free to self-host forever.
cloud.maude.sh
want in? DM me 🔥
September 19, 2026 at 10:40 AM
maude cloud is open. free pilot, no card.
€19 per project later. not per seat. invite the whole team, the number doesn't move.
still MIT, still free to self-host forever.
cloud.maude.sh
want in? DM me 🔥
€19 per project later. not per seat. invite the whole team, the number doesn't move.
still MIT, still free to self-host forever.
cloud.maude.sh
want in? DM me 🔥
Been quiet for a while. Reason: StudyFi v1.4.0 is out, our biggest release yet.
No more hard paywall. Anyone can use it now.
Which means retention is suddenly way harder. And way more fun. Less vibes, more drop-off charts 😅
The team is learning like crazy. Super energizing 💪
No more hard paywall. Anyone can use it now.
Which means retention is suddenly way harder. And way more fun. Less vibes, more drop-off charts 😅
The team is learning like crazy. Super energizing 💪
September 15, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Been quiet for a while. Reason: StudyFi v1.4.0 is out, our biggest release yet.
No more hard paywall. Anyone can use it now.
Which means retention is suddenly way harder. And way more fun. Less vibes, more drop-off charts 😅
The team is learning like crazy. Super energizing 💪
No more hard paywall. Anyone can use it now.
Which means retention is suddenly way harder. And way more fun. Less vibes, more drop-off charts 😅
The team is learning like crazy. Super energizing 💪
Ok I’m in
Running on the old 2019 MacbooPro 🌄
Running on the old 2019 MacbooPro 🌄
August 28, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Ok I’m in
Running on the old 2019 MacbooPro 🌄
Running on the old 2019 MacbooPro 🌄
showed marketing the release candidate today.
told them twice it's not the release.
they nodded 😬
told them twice it's not the release.
they nodded 😬
August 25, 2026 at 1:51 PM
showed marketing the release candidate today.
told them twice it's not the release.
they nodded 😬
told them twice it's not the release.
they nodded 😬
10 releases in a week.
maude is a side project. I build it at night, mostly after my kid is asleep.
A few years ago that's a team, a sprint board and a release manager. Now it's me and a laptop.
(Yes, some of those releases fix the previous one.)
What a time to be building 🔥
maude is a side project. I build it at night, mostly after my kid is asleep.
A few years ago that's a team, a sprint board and a release manager. Now it's me and a laptop.
(Yes, some of those releases fix the previous one.)
What a time to be building 🔥
August 18, 2026 at 7:52 PM
10 releases in a week.
maude is a side project. I build it at night, mostly after my kid is asleep.
A few years ago that's a team, a sprint board and a release manager. Now it's me and a laptop.
(Yes, some of those releases fix the previous one.)
What a time to be building 🔥
maude is a side project. I build it at night, mostly after my kid is asleep.
A few years ago that's a team, a sprint board and a release manager. Now it's me and a laptop.
(Yes, some of those releases fix the previous one.)
What a time to be building 🔥
End of summer in ed-tech:
- students are gone
- we're shipping the biggest release of the year
- deadline is Sept 1 and it doesn't move
Sometimes a blessing, sometimes a curse. We'll make it 💪
Anyone else's roadmap run by a calendar, or is that just ed-tech?
- students are gone
- we're shipping the biggest release of the year
- deadline is Sept 1 and it doesn't move
Sometimes a blessing, sometimes a curse. We'll make it 💪
Anyone else's roadmap run by a calendar, or is that just ed-tech?
August 15, 2026 at 9:58 AM
End of summer in ed-tech:
- students are gone
- we're shipping the biggest release of the year
- deadline is Sept 1 and it doesn't move
Sometimes a blessing, sometimes a curse. We'll make it 💪
Anyone else's roadmap run by a calendar, or is that just ed-tech?
- students are gone
- we're shipping the biggest release of the year
- deadline is Sept 1 and it doesn't move
Sometimes a blessing, sometimes a curse. We'll make it 💪
Anyone else's roadmap run by a calendar, or is that just ed-tech?
working on something.
maude, but in the cloud. open it like Figma, no clone, no setup.
still just a git repo under the hood though.
maude, but in the cloud. open it like Figma, no clone, no setup.
still just a git repo under the hood though.
August 11, 2026 at 3:18 PM
working on something.
maude, but in the cloud. open it like Figma, no clone, no setup.
still just a git repo under the hood though.
maude, but in the cloud. open it like Figma, no clone, no setup.
still just a git repo under the hood though.
How many meetings do you have in a week? And honestly, isn't that too many?
I keep my dev team as far from meetings as I can. Uninterrupted work is the most valuable thing they have.
Rituals matter though. So I keep the essential ones and write the rest down.
Thoughts? 🤔
I keep my dev team as far from meetings as I can. Uninterrupted work is the most valuable thing they have.
Rituals matter though. So I keep the essential ones and write the rest down.
Thoughts? 🤔
August 7, 2026 at 7:16 AM
How many meetings do you have in a week? And honestly, isn't that too many?
I keep my dev team as far from meetings as I can. Uninterrupted work is the most valuable thing they have.
Rituals matter though. So I keep the essential ones and write the rest down.
Thoughts? 🤔
I keep my dev team as far from meetings as I can. Uninterrupted work is the most valuable thing they have.
Rituals matter though. So I keep the essential ones and write the rest down.
Thoughts? 🤔
A colleague took this photo and it kind of stopped me.
Close the laptop. Drop the AI for a minute. Stare at the ceiling. Be grateful.
Coming from me, I know 😅
Close the laptop. Drop the AI for a minute. Stare at the ceiling. Be grateful.
Coming from me, I know 😅
August 5, 2026 at 8:03 AM
A colleague took this photo and it kind of stopped me.
Close the laptop. Drop the AI for a minute. Stare at the ceiling. Be grateful.
Coming from me, I know 😅
Close the laptop. Drop the AI for a minute. Stare at the ceiling. Be grateful.
Coming from me, I know 😅
maude Studio has a real timeline editor now.
Drag clips around like iMovie. No more hand-writing JSX transitions at 1am.
built it because I got tired of doing it the hard way 🔥
Drag clips around like iMovie. No more hand-writing JSX transitions at 1am.
built it because I got tired of doing it the hard way 🔥
August 4, 2026 at 5:31 PM
maude Studio has a real timeline editor now.
Drag clips around like iMovie. No more hand-writing JSX transitions at 1am.
built it because I got tired of doing it the hard way 🔥
Drag clips around like iMovie. No more hand-writing JSX transitions at 1am.
built it because I got tired of doing it the hard way 🔥
Got the whole team out of the office and into the woods for two days. A cabin, flipcharts, a wall of post-its. Ideathon, roadmap for the next six months. Done. 🔥
You see, you sense, you feel. No remote call or AI ever replaces that.
As my younger colleagues say: IRL can't be replaced 🫶
You see, you sense, you feel. No remote call or AI ever replaces that.
As my younger colleagues say: IRL can't be replaced 🫶
July 24, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Got the whole team out of the office and into the woods for two days. A cabin, flipcharts, a wall of post-its. Ideathon, roadmap for the next six months. Done. 🔥
You see, you sense, you feel. No remote call or AI ever replaces that.
As my younger colleagues say: IRL can't be replaced 🫶
You see, you sense, you feel. No remote call or AI ever replaces that.
As my younger colleagues say: IRL can't be replaced 🫶
No undo. No infinite retakes.
Watched a video on a photo that apparently proves we're time traveling (Michael MacKelvie, link below). The part that stuck: analog forces real prep. You think twice before you press the shutter.
youtu.be/AMBxeNIUGhM
Watched a video on a photo that apparently proves we're time traveling (Michael MacKelvie, link below). The part that stuck: analog forces real prep. You think twice before you press the shutter.
youtu.be/AMBxeNIUGhM
This Photo Proves We're Time Traveling
YouTube video by Michael MacKelvie
youtu.be
July 21, 2026 at 8:23 PM
No undo. No infinite retakes.
Watched a video on a photo that apparently proves we're time traveling (Michael MacKelvie, link below). The part that stuck: analog forces real prep. You think twice before you press the shutter.
youtu.be/AMBxeNIUGhM
Watched a video on a photo that apparently proves we're time traveling (Michael MacKelvie, link below). The part that stuck: analog forces real prep. You think twice before you press the shutter.
youtu.be/AMBxeNIUGhM
one note from vivatech is still stuck in my head.
every product adoption i've watched goes the same way: skepticism > wow > a-ha.
the wow is cheap. any demo can wow. nothing converts until it clicks on YOUR actual problem.
and yet we keep building launches for the wow part…
Thoughts? 🤔
every product adoption i've watched goes the same way: skepticism > wow > a-ha.
the wow is cheap. any demo can wow. nothing converts until it clicks on YOUR actual problem.
and yet we keep building launches for the wow part…
Thoughts? 🤔
July 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM
one note from vivatech is still stuck in my head.
every product adoption i've watched goes the same way: skepticism > wow > a-ha.
the wow is cheap. any demo can wow. nothing converts until it clicks on YOUR actual problem.
and yet we keep building launches for the wow part…
Thoughts? 🤔
every product adoption i've watched goes the same way: skepticism > wow > a-ha.
the wow is cheap. any demo can wow. nothing converts until it clicks on YOUR actual problem.
and yet we keep building launches for the wow part…
Thoughts? 🤔
One lap of our StudyFi dev cycle:
- Sprint Start
- Code Freeze
- Fix Day
- Release Day
- Retro
- back to Sprint Start
Twenty one days, ceremony to ceremony.
Still sprinting, or just shipping and skipping half the ceremonies? 🤔
- Sprint Start
- Code Freeze
- Fix Day
- Release Day
- Retro
- back to Sprint Start
Twenty one days, ceremony to ceremony.
Still sprinting, or just shipping and skipping half the ceremonies? 🤔
July 14, 2026 at 7:53 AM
One lap of our StudyFi dev cycle:
- Sprint Start
- Code Freeze
- Fix Day
- Release Day
- Retro
- back to Sprint Start
Twenty one days, ceremony to ceremony.
Still sprinting, or just shipping and skipping half the ceremonies? 🤔
- Sprint Start
- Code Freeze
- Fix Day
- Release Day
- Retro
- back to Sprint Start
Twenty one days, ceremony to ceremony.
Still sprinting, or just shipping and skipping half the ceremonies? 🤔
Threw a photo at maude.
It cut the background. Dropped it into a template. Ready-to-post image out the other side.
Few seconds, not fifteen minutes in some editor tab.
Built it because I kept doing this by hand for every post. Video below 🔥
It cut the background. Dropped it into a template. Ready-to-post image out the other side.
Few seconds, not fifteen minutes in some editor tab.
Built it because I kept doing this by hand for every post. Video below 🔥
July 13, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Threw a photo at maude.
It cut the background. Dropped it into a template. Ready-to-post image out the other side.
Few seconds, not fifteen minutes in some editor tab.
Built it because I kept doing this by hand for every post. Video below 🔥
It cut the background. Dropped it into a template. Ready-to-post image out the other side.
Few seconds, not fifteen minutes in some editor tab.
Built it because I kept doing this by hand for every post. Video below 🔥
in june i showed you one screen of maude. here's the rest of it.
a native desktop app. shell, git, identity, collab, chat, distribution. all shipped.
and it's finally ready for non-technical people. our marketing gurus at @studyfi are fully in 🔥
download it now → maude.sh/desktop
a native desktop app. shell, git, identity, collab, chat, distribution. all shipped.
and it's finally ready for non-technical people. our marketing gurus at @studyfi are fully in 🔥
download it now → maude.sh/desktop
July 10, 2026 at 2:07 PM
in june i showed you one screen of maude. here's the rest of it.
a native desktop app. shell, git, identity, collab, chat, distribution. all shipped.
and it's finally ready for non-technical people. our marketing gurus at @studyfi are fully in 🔥
download it now → maude.sh/desktop
a native desktop app. shell, git, identity, collab, chat, distribution. all shipped.
and it's finally ready for non-technical people. our marketing gurus at @studyfi are fully in 🔥
download it now → maude.sh/desktop
When you waiting for your context windiw restore
July 2, 2026 at 9:10 AM
When you waiting for your context windiw restore