Laraue Blog — .NET, Nuxt, Telegram Bots and AI Workflow

Real code, real decisions, real tradeoffs. We write about what we build — .NET libraries, Telegram bots, AI integrations, and the architecture mistakes worth learning from.

Why users kept choosing Telegram Saved Messages over our bot — and what we changed
Part 10 of building a Telegram task tracker in a tiny team. The story of a product mistake — we added epic and status selection to the bot, but real users kept using Saved Messages — and how we fixed it.
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From Telegram Saved Messages to a real task tracker — defining the user path
Part 3 of building a Telegram task tracker in a tiny team. Why Saved Messages is not convenient for managing tasks, which minimal scenario Laraue Boards started from, and why the user path is defined before development begins.
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Prototyping the interface with AI before writing code
Part 2 of building a Telegram task tracker in a tiny team. Why we start with the interface, how AI HTML prototypes replaced Figma, and how the first Laraue Boards prototype turned out.
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Building a Jira alternative in a tiny team — why we are doing it and the repository links
Part 1 of building a Telegram task tracker in a tiny team with AI. What problem we are solving, why the world needs another task tracker, and which two repositories the article series is built on.
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How we decide what to build — validating a product idea in a crowded market
Validating a product idea before writing code — researching the market, testing the idea in public, and using AI to judge whether it is realistic to compete for the keywords you need.
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