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Shipped · Jun 2025 – Jul 2025

Autostickers

A Telegram bot that bought tokenised sticker packs on TON the moment they dropped. 2,300 users and $152k of packs in its first two days, with no advertising.

Role
Co-founder
with Luka Krestinin
Stack
TON BlockchainDistributed systemsQueueingCaching
Numbers
2,300+ users$152k GMV~20% margin
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Telegram bot ↗
A glossy yellow Telegram Stars star with a trail of smaller stars — the currency users topped up to buy sticker packs

Autostickers · the story

The store sold out in under a minute. The bot needed under a second.

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$152k
of packs bought in the first two days
2,300+
users, word of mouth only
~20%
commission on every purchase
2 days
from launch to those numbers

Drop to delivery

DROP

a new pack appears on the store

RULES

per user: max price, max supply, rarest first

QUEUE

Redis fans out one checkout per user, in parallel

CHECKOUT

authenticated store session, under a second

DELIVER

pack to the user, order to the ledger

Queue and cache layers absorbed the spike without losing an order

Faster than the crowd.

Time from the drop · log scale

A drop sells out in under a minute, first come first served. Autostickers saw the drop, checked the rules and finished checkout in under a second, for every user at once.

Autostickers · the write-up

How it was built.

NFT sticker drops on TON are supply-limited and front-run by bots within milliseconds. Autostickers is one of those bots, but built to be reliable for end users instead of throwing every box at every drop.

The hard problem is the spike. At drop time you go from a quiet baseline to thousands of concurrent buy attempts, all needing to read the same hot rows of state and write blockchain transactions before competitors do. Engineered load distribution across server cores, hot-path-tuned database access patterns, and queue + cache layers that absorbed the burst without losing customer orders during partial failures.

End state: 2,300+ paying users, $152k in turnover, ~20% margin.

End of Autostickers

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