Dima Pashutskii

Quitting Twitter/X left me missing the feel of community and cool people coding awesome things. But I just can't bring myself to use that platform. So giving BSKY another chance. Looking to connect with independent builders and creators. Rn, I make videos on YT, and build tacodigest.com.

Got some essentials for living in the Netherlands.

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How much Claude knows my partner and me is a bit scary, since we both use it. I can easily ask "which movies from my @letterboxd.social my wife will not want to watch" and it gives me a perfect list for movie night alone.

Good win for today! I discovered that @sentry.io io has support for multiple organisations within one account. Which makes life so much easier both for me and Claude connector. I was creating a new account for each new project. 🤦‍♂️

11 Sept

Are people still active on @bsky.app? Is it growing or dying?

If you've never known how to do horrible marketing, based on fear and FOMO, Anthropic has been giving a masterclass.

bsky.appDima Pashutskii (@dpashutskii.com)For the most part, you don't need to worry about bureaucracy in the Netherlands as a startup founder. Everything is digital and convenient. But I do hate spending even a minute doing admin/accounting/whatever tasks not related to actually building the startup.

Managed to automate almost everything, except downloading invoices. It can be done via "Claude in Chrome" but it’s just too slow, as it makes a screenshot, then clicks, then repeats. It takes ages to download everything for the quarter. bsky.app/profile/dpa...

3. Put all downloaded invoices into a shared folder with Claude.

4. It parses, renames, and uploads them into Google Drive. It fills the rest of the accounting spreadsheet with countries, VAT info, invoice links, etc. At the end, I got something like this + numbers to fill in the VAT tax return.

So my new Cowork setup: 1. Download the quarter statement from Revolut Business.

2. Feed it to Claude so it starts filling the accounting spreadsheet. It also gives you the list of invoices to download.

11 July

For the most part, you don't need to worry about bureaucracy in the Netherlands as a startup founder. Everything is digital and convenient. But I do hate spending even a minute doing admin/accounting/whatever tasks not related to actually building the startup.

11 July

For me, the most annoying is collecting invoices, structuring everything, listing expenses/income, filing VAT tax returns, etc. So I’m spending this Saturday with my friend Claude in an attempt to fully automate it.

10 July

As a technical founder, you always try hard so everything on the platform looks great, there are no bugs and broken pieces, and everything feels smooth and snappy.

10 July

And then you realise that you forgot to register an email address you added as "Contact support" and it's been this way for at least several weeks. Simply bouncing back if somebody tried to send an email there 😅 What a shame.

10 July

If you're using Cloud+ for custom email domains (or any other service for that matter), I definitely recommend always receiving all messages for the domain, instead of a selected list of addresses.

I've spent the last 8 months with close to zero social media presence. But I am willing to give it another go. This time with a bit more intention.

For the coming months, I'll run this experiment and share only my startup/founder journey: what we're building, what challenges we're facing, and the lessons learned. Right now, I mostly focus on YouTube marketing/intelligence data startup @Influesque.com.

And from other recent news, I moved to Amsterdam and super happy about it. Spot my neighbour.

I've spent the last 8 months with close to zero social media presence. But I am willing to give it another go. This time with a bit more intention.

The truth is, I like sharing stuff, and learning about cool stuff other founders are building. I just don't like social media’s algorithmic nonsense, the fact that their main way of making money is from your addiction and attention, and drama that always seems to be happening there.

But I have a hypothesis that if I try and strictly stick to the startup people, especially indie hackers and bootstrapped startups, and only share my startup building journey, it might be enjoyable, and I might find this sense of a community that existed on social media a long time ago.

dpashutskii.comI am finally done with social media. - Dima Pashutskii

29 Nov 2025

I have finally decided that I'm done: dpashutskii.com/articles/i-...

20 Nov 2025

Excited to share what I am working on - influesque.com. We're simplifying YouTube creator advertising for brands and hopefully boosting the creator economy. Our MVP is almost ready. Join the waitlist if you've always wanted to try this marketing channel.

15 Nov 2025

Started doing some hobby photography again. iPhone 17 Pro is awesome. I realized I miss sharing photos online, but X is not good and I hate IG. So looking for a nice place to do it without being on a lame/dead platform. Thinking maybe start a Substack (story + photos)?

15 Nov 2025

“Loyalty is great but only when it’s rewarded”

13 Nov 2025

Do you think it's a terrible idea to have many niches for content on YouTube on the same channel, or is it okay to experiment and keep things fresh?

13 Nov 2025

You need a PhD in color grading just to export your video in DaVinci Resolve so it looks the same as during editing. 🤦‍♂️

12 Nov 2025

The most confusing "men's restroom" sign I've ever seen. In case you didn't get it, it's a urinal on the left.

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12 Nov 2025

Just learned that Apple has Lightroom competitor www.pixelmator.com/photomator/ and it's good! - Similar flow to Apple Photos but powerful. - ML features are pretty decent. - Optimized for Mac/iOS. - One-time purchase price (!) - LUTs instead of presets (as a video person it's awesome)

11 Nov 2025

Programming has a surprising amount of waiting: - Deploy - Various scripts/migrations/data imports running - AI generating response - CD/CI/Tests - Compilation for some languages What do you all do in the meanwhile?

Journaling is the best reflecting tool because it gives you perspective. It's so easy to be disappointed in day-to-day progress, but if you've been journaling long enough, you can read your entries from 1-2-3 years ago and immediately see the forest behind the trees.

Working from home is nice, but I am trying to change environment and work somewhere in the city at least once a week. Those days are usually most productive. Working from the library with an autumn view today.

Experimenting with the new @YouTube feature that I finally got on my channel. Published a video with dubbing for the first time.

youtube.comI visited the world’s biggest Gaming Event (Gamescom 2025)I am back with another vlog and another adventure. This year I visited the largest video game event in the world - Gamescom 2025 (@gamescom.global) Here is t...

Video: youtu.be/sG480uSJRSA...

9 Nov 2025

I'll never understand this. Digital distribution should bring cost down, not up.

8 Nov 2025

Does the profession of YouTube auditor exist? I'd love to pay a growth expert for a one-time consultation to review my channel/analytics. Kind of like how SEO audits work now.

7 Nov 2025

Perfect strategy for reducing your churn from @yandex. I enabled their food delivery subscription while I was in Minsk. Now I am back to the EU, I can't open any page because it's "not available in my country". Result: I can't really cancel the subscription!

7 Nov 2025

PS Managed to do it via iOS app by removing "Location access".

Me and Cursor, especially when I ask to do something trivial.

My first money for the YouTube sponsor integration! My first experience with adding a sponsored segment. I had offers before, but I never liked the product or the negotiation went nowhere. Great experience overall! Thanks @snowballtracker for being my first sponsor.

youtube.comI quit my job 18 months ago. Was it worth it?Check out Snowball Analytics by this link https://bit.ly/snowball-dima or use promo code *dpashutskii* at checkout to get a 10% discount.This video turned ou...

Video itself if you're curious: youtu.be/sHWcK_DH0fM...

YouTube polls are super helpful when I can't decide what to prioritize next.

5 Nov 2025

Published the video youtu.be/sHWcK_DH0fM 🚀 x.com/dpashutskii...

I have a love/hate relationship with video editing. Sometimes I hit the flow and can't stop. Some days I just can't bring myself to even start, and it feels so dragging. I need a way to control it!

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I'm just gonna to say this. Coca Cola's 2025 AI-generated ad still looks like sh*t. The top youtube comment summed it up well: "This feels like a Facebook mom post." Not something you'd expect from a multi-billion-dollar corporation. Or maybe it is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy6...

I finally got A/B/C testing for titles (in addition to thumbnails). Probably the most useful update in the last few years.

I've never added the product to your platform, but thanks?..

2 Nov 2025

Another video - done. Will be live today 🚀 Turned out quite a personal story about my decision of quitting my job and how I have been doing since then. Also, I am doing an ad integration for the first time.