Maksim Lomachenko
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After years of building design systems for others, I finally decided to ship one for myself.
Itās called Crumbs-UI.
The idea is simple: a design-first UI kit where Figma and production code actually talk to each other through synced tokens. No fake components, no handoff chaosājust a tool that works the way it should.
Itās still in beta. Iām breaking it, refining it, and probably overthinking it.
Figma Community: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1580538273977210242/crumbs-ui-free-figma-ui-kit-code-synced
(https://www.figma.com/community/file/1580538273977210242/crumbs-ui-free-figma-ui-kit-code-synced)NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/crumbs-uiĀ
Site: https://crumbs-ui.com/
If you have a minute, take a look and let me know whatās missing. Feedback (and criticism) is very welcome š
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One of the most fun projects Iāve worked on.
The starting point? A beautiful mess: endless Excel sheets, folders full of documents, government forms, PDFs, emails, and a lot of manual coordination between people trying to figure out how to relocate to another country.
We took that chaos and turned it into a product.
By automating the boring parts and structuring the process, we built a system that helps people and their families move abroad for work ā or simply start a new chapter somewhere a bit calmer than whatever madness is going on in the world right now.
Less paperwork. Less confusion. More life decisions actually happening.
And honestly, building tools that help people change their lives a little? Thatās the kind of project that makes the work feel worth it.
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:I often work with companies that come in with a very specific pain. Not the āhey, can you design our annual recap landing page?ā kind of request. Real problems. The kind that slow teams down, burn budgets, and make people question their workflows.
The fun part is when modern tech gets thrown into the mix. Thatās when things start to get interesting.
In this case, the team wanted to rethink how they produce visual content at scale. Instead of relying on endless freelancers and stock assets, we explored a different route ā integrating locally hosted AI models directly into their workflow.
Less busywork, fewer bottlenecks, and a system that actually helps the team move faster. This is the story of that project.
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Iām super easy to hook if the project is weird enough. This one definitely was.
At the peak of the Hamster Kombat / Notcoin wave, I built a Telegram mini app for mining in-app coins ā lightweight, fast, and designed to keep users coming back daily. Stack-wise: Telegram Mini Apps (WebApp API), JS frontend, and a backend handling logic, rewards, and state.
Designing for Telegram isā¦ fun. And painful. Youāre locked inside a WebView, limited UI controls, tight performance constraints ā and still expected to make it feel like a real product, not a hacked webpage.
Also, I canāt share the project as-is ā NDA things. But I got the green light to show the core flow with slightly redesigned UI and no branding.
Low-key hoping one day Elon drops a DM and we build something truly unhinged. Or at leastā¦ Iāll take a Tesla š
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