About
Hi, I'm Lesly.
I'm French, I live in Kyiv, and I've been building things for more than 20 years.
It started in Bordeaux with digital agencies, including 53mondays, which I ran with a partner. In 2012 I opened the city's first coworking space, and I ran BarCamp Bordeaux for a few years. The last one took place in the town hall. Then came a design subscription service, an online watercolor academy with my wife Yana, and a lot of product work for other people.
I'm a builder and an explorer. I love the first version of anything: the idea, the sketch, the moment it works for the first time. That's why my week has more than one thing in it, and why this site looks like a desktop with a lot of windows open.
- years building things
- 20+
- countries lived in
- 15
- years with Yana
- 10
- BJJ belt
- Purple
Here's what fills my week right now.
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01
Freelance AI and software
I'm Head of AI at MemberFix, as a freelancer. I also build micro SaaS, MVPs, automations and AI agents for other businesses.
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02
My own apps
Thoughtloft is a Mac notebook that brings your old ideas back when they matter. Penflow is a quiet writing app for novelists. I design and build both.
See projects -
03
YouTube
I share what I build and what I learn along the way. Overlanding videos come later.
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04
Coaching
Psychology has been a long interest of mine, from Jung to Stoicism to systems thinking. I use it to coach men who know what to do but don't do it.
See coaching
Life
Life outside work
Yana and I met in Thailand ten years ago. Since then we've lived in a lot of places, from Colombia and Peru to Poland and France. Today home is Kyiv, with our Shiba Inu, Kaiju.
Off the screen I paint watercolors, train BJJ and run. Kaiju makes sure I walk a lot too. Next on the list is overlanding: long roads, a roof tent and the Carpathian mountains.
