Ivan Klimchuk
BE

Now

A page that tells you what this person is focused on at this point in their life. Inspired by the now movement.

Since I recently updated my website, it seems like a good time to update the now page as well. Here is a summary of my current passions, projects, and general life updates. The order doesn’t indicate priority; it’s just a way to organize my thoughts. Everything is important, and I try to balance it all to keep moving forward.

Projects

I have several active projects at the moment. The most important and complex one is Brevly. It’s a set of tools for cyclists who ride and organize long-distance events called brevets. I have a lot of ideas, and while handling them requires significant effort, AI tools make bootstrapping a working prototype and polishing it much less daunting. Currently, I am actively preparing the MVP.

Another project, which falls into the pet-project category (though I hope others will find it useful), is RideStory. It’s a Telegram bot with a mini web app that syncs my rides with Strava and Komoot. It allows me to attach photos, write notes, and cross-post everywhere from a single place – updating Strava and Komoot, posting to Instagram, tweeting, and preparing a post for a Telegram channel. I usually do this manually, so the goal is to automate my post-ride routine.

Last but not least, I am renaming the Tech Belarusian project to a more software engineering-focused source called Prastora Dev (which translates to “development space” or “area”). It involves a lot of tech work, but mostly related to content creation and marketing.

Work & AI

At work, we’ve established a mature payment service and are continuing to grow our user base and onboard partners. There isn’t as much active feature development right now; instead, a lot of my work focuses on SRE (Site Reliability Engineering). The growing load pushes us to implement, integrate, and use solutions that mature companies typically apply to their services.

This is something I used to do, and I really enjoy it. At the same time, it’s a complex task where it’s not always possible to find direct answers, even with AI. LLMs speed up some technical tasks, but researching better solutions and planning resilient architectures are still very much human work.

Cycling

Last summer, I failed my attempt to earn the Super Randonneur title, so I am trying again this year. The goals remain the same: complete a series of brevets covering 200, 300, 400, and 600 kilometers. If I have spare time, I want to attempt a 1000-kilometer ride as well.

A tight work and family schedule doesn’t always allow me to ride when I want, making the planning of these activities a bit tricky. However, my physical form is much better than last year, so I hope to complete a 200-km ride in under 10 hours.

Besides these goals, I will also try to do some free long-distance rides without time limits, just in a traveling mode.

Health

For a long time, I’ve been trying to sort out my issues with high cholesterol. It brings a lot of heart risks if left unaddressed, so I visited a doctor and started therapy. Since medication alone doesn’t solve the root cause, I am actively working on improving my sleep, lowering cortisol levels, and incorporating more physical activity.

To improve my cycling performance, I go to the gym twice a week for full-body workouts with a coach. The results are already visible – on my last 130-kilometer ride, I finally rode uphills without pain and suffering.

Family

The kids are growing and require attention – maybe not a lot in terms of hours, but it needs to be high quality. A month ago, I bought a bike for my 4-year-old daughter, and now we ride together almost every day. As a family, we try to travel more, at least to places we can reach by car. Hopefully, this year we will get to see a real sunny beach, too. There’s some paperwork that needs to be sorted out, which is difficult sometimes, but it will be worth it.

Past Updates

August 21, 2025

Long time without updates, so it seems it does not make sense to remember the whole year, so I will limit this update to summer only.

Work and Projects

I’ve stopped all my side projects for the summer to focus on the cycling activities, while the weather allows me to do it. On the work results, good, we started some new experimental projects, that almost finished, but not yet in production. And looks like after such activities, I may call myself an expert in the fintech solutions. Maybe makes sense to create some educational videos or maybe a short course about implementing different payment solutions in games and other projects.

Cycling Results

As summer started pretty latter this year and the first month was rainy and cold, in July and now in August, I am trying to close all my cycling goals.

I wanted to achieve the title of “Super Randonneur”, which means a person who finished a series of brevets of 200, 300, 400, and 600 kilometers. I’ve successfully ridden 200 in April, also it was hard to finish 400 in June, but I’ve done it. Also, I tried riding 600 in August, but failed with it. I’ve set my record of 450 kilometers at once, by the way.

Unfortunately, I don’t have enough time in this season to repeat 600, so riding 300 also does not make a lot of sense. I need more training for such long distances. I did almost nothing and just rode 200 and 400 because I have a not bad body. But it is not enough. So, the goals will be shifted to the next season.

These two warm (I hope) months I am going to spend on small traveling rides, about 100–150 kilometers, just for pleasure.

April 29, 2024

Business Clarity Matters

In our ongoing project, I address various issues by presenting financial and activity data in a clear and concise format for both stakeholders and our team. This clarity enables us to grasp the current true picture effectively—an intriguing revelation: besides landing and services, businesses cannot thrive without robust dashboards.

Content Creation Challenges

The notion of content creation may seem straightforward, just switch on the camera and speak until you delve into it. I endeavor to establish my project with the primary aim of delivering engaging explanations about technology in Belarusian. While the niche is entirely open, the constraints of time, owing to work commitments and personal circumstances (raising two small children), compel me to organize rigorously. Hence, I’m striving to construct a production and publishing machine using Notion, which I believe will aid in maintaining discipline.

Venturing into SaaS Territory

To be truly an indie hacker, I started my own SaaS solution. I’ve initiated one that aims to assist me in my preceding content creation project, leveraging the capabilities of Notion. Moreover, I anticipate its utility extending to others as well. I focused on an MVP to be able to share with people and gather initial feedback.