Maqsudjon Polatov · product engineer · Tashkent

I weld metal by day.
I ship software by night.

↖ drag across the steel to lay your own bead

Seconds since the first repo · 28 Feb 2025
51,206,078
Live sites 18Repos 191Commits 3,146

Job ticketsBuild log

real entries, pinned up the day they shipped

No. 00127 May 2026

Launched flarestamina.com. Free IELTS tests. One afternoon of DNS.

— M.P.Live
No. 00224 Aug 2026

Took down three login walls. Signing in is optional now.

— M.P.Done
No. 00327 Aug 2026

Tadam: one QR on the table. No app, no database.

— M.P.Live
No. 004Every hour

AI Lenta published by itself. Every number checked against the source.

— the pipelineAuto
No. 0051 Oct 2026

Zitou moved to zitou.app. Chinese, taught in Uzbek.

— M.P.Live
No. 00614 Oct 2026

Published Nullsample Multitrack: 20 tracks with exact labels.

— M.P.Open
No. 00718 Oct 2026

Zitou HSK 1 course: six lessons, one code to join the class.

— M.P.Live
No. 00819 Oct 2026

Bought zitou.uz. Chinese in Uzbek, at a .uz address.

— M.P.Live
No. 0095 Nov 2026

Zitou on the App Store. Same app, one more door.

— M.P.Live

18 live sitesBehind the grille

hover a pane and the light comes on. every pane opens the story.

Hugging Face · CC BY 4.0Open stock

cut from it freely. how it was made

23 notes · RSSShop notes

the long story behind every weld

14 Oct 2026 · 5 min readFlareStamina: free IELTS practice, built around a welding jobHow a handful of listening tests became a free IELTS platform with 144 tests, a writing lab, a speaking lab and a news desk, and why the login walls had to come down.
14 Oct 2026 · 6 min readZitou: learning Chinese in Uzbek, ten minutes a dayA free app that teaches Chinese in Uzbek and nine other languages, on the web, on the App Store and in Telegram: a 124,000-word dictionary, all HSK lists, an HSK 1 course for the classroom, stroke-order writing, spaced repetition, and tools for teachers.
14 Oct 2026 · 4 min readAI Lenta: an Uzbek AI news wire with nobody in the loopHow AI Lenta collects AI news from dozens of outlets, writes it in Uzbek, refuses to publish a number it cannot find in the source, and stops the same story from appearing twice.
14 Oct 2026 · 3 min readzh.tou.gg: Chinese homework, in the order of the slidesA small free app that turns a Chinese teacher's slides, homework text and textbook audio into numbered practice: stroke order by finger, tone tests, pinyin and dialogues you can replay sentence by sentence.
14 Oct 2026 · 3 min readChertma: type plain ASCII, get correct UzbekUzbekistan is moving to a new Latin alphabet that no phone keyboard has. Chertma restores ş ç ö ğ from plain typing, offline, using a 4.9-million-word lexicon, and refuses to touch anything it is not sure about.
14 Oct 2026 · 2 min readDavomat: group attendance in four taps, inside TelegramA free attendance app for university group monitors: mark 25 students in four taps, let the bot ask absentees why, and never miss a birthday. Built by a student for his own group.

Curriculum vitaeSpec plate

one page. checked 14 oct 2026.

M. Polatov

Model
Product engineer
Built in
Tashkent · open to remote
In service
Steel since 2023 · code since Feb 2025
Output
18 sites · 191 repos · 3,146 commits
Uzbek
C2
English
B2 · IELTS 6.0
Korean
A2 · TOPIK 2
Russian
A2
Chinese
A0 · since 19 Sep 2026
Papers
BA English Philology (AIFU) · Electrician, honours · Trucking, First Class
  1. Metal fabricator. Grilles, railings, canopies.
  2. First repo. Independent product engineer, solo.
  3. FlareStamina goes live. Free IELTS tests, now 144.
  4. IELTS Academic 6.0 · Tadam. CEFR B2. A wedding album with no app.
  5. AI Lenta · Davomat · tou.gg. BA begins. Chinese, day one.
  6. Zitou on zitou.uz. HSK 1 course, three open datasets.
  7. Zitou on the App Store. For iPhone; Android in Telegram. Now.