#023 — Pet Project: From Idea to Production
Date: October 16, 2026 | 19:00 London / 21:00 Kyiv
Format: Guest talk · technical deep-dive · ~60–70 minutes
Guest: Oleksandr Blazheiko
YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/3psATdryIYA
Participants
Oleksandr Blazheiko — Software Development Engineer · Fullstack
Ukraine
LinkedIn · itvibe.party
What we'll cover
Most pet projects stop at "the code is written" — and lose everything that matters most: real users, real breakages, and the kind of experience no work ticket gives you. Oleksandr Blazheiko walks the path from an idea to an app that runs on the internet without your laptop.
Topics
- What a pet project is and how it differs from work and study projects
- Should a pet project make money — the arguments on both sides
- Picking an idea and shrinking "my own social network" down to a two-week MVP
- Localhost vs production: what changes when your code meets someone else's device and data
- How a web app lives on the internet: domain, DNS, VPS, HTTPS, reverse proxy, database
- Three ways to deploy: shared hosting, PaaS, VPS + Docker — cost, complexity, what you'll learn
- Deployment in six steps: server, domain, Docker Compose, env, HTTPS, launch
- After the deploy: logs, monitoring, backups, security, rollbacks
- How a pet project plays out in a job interview
Key takeaways
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