Aaron Delasy

Early life

Delasy was born on 15 September 1998 in Ukraine. ^[1] He has written that his family got its first computer in 2003, an Intel Pentium machine with a cathode-ray monitor, ^[1] and that in the same year, aged five, he decided he would one day move to the United States. He has said he never understood where the decision came from, only that it was a decision rather than a wish, and that it drove him for years afterwards. In the same account he says he was bullied at school after fifth grade and that the goal acquired a second motive: to prove those people wrong. ^[20]

In 2007 he began playing TeeWorlds, a free multiplayer shooter, and the game led him to programming. ^[1] His first code, written in 2012, was an aimbot for TeeWorlds in C++ using Visual Studio. He has said he did not understand a single thing he wrote but had a need and closed it, and that coding has worked that way for him ever since. ^[1]

He built his first website in May 2013, a WordPress site for a cattery advertising cats for sale, freya-grand.com; he was fourteen, and says he did the design as well as the code. The cattery was his mother’s, and she paid him $200 for the site — his first paid work. ^[1]⁠^[5] That September he left school after the ninth year — a standard entry point in Ukraine, which meant completing his secondary schooling alongside the course — for a college attached to Kryvyi Rih National University, where he studied until 2017. ^[5]⁠^[6] The institution changed its name under him: he enrolled in the Mining Electro-Mechanical Technical School and left the Mining Electro-Mechanical College, the university having renamed its technical schools in 2015. ^[6] His qualification was молодший спеціаліст, junior specialist; credential evaluators abroad read it as an associate degree. ^[21] His subject was not software but metalwork: specialty 133, industrial machine building — the technology of processing materials on machine tools and automatic lines, qualifying him as a technician-technologist in mechanics, on a course covering cutting tools, machining processes and the programming of numerically controlled machines. ^[5]⁠^[22] The course did include computer science, for a single year; his teacher gave him a grade of 7 on Ukraine’s 12-point scale. ^[5] By the time he finished he had been earning as a developer for more than a year.^[5] His public profiles date the start of his freelance work to that year and say he began freelancing at fifteen with no formal education in the field. ^[7]⁠^[10] He himself dates his first contract work to early 2016 and his freelancing proper to 2017. ^[5]

His earliest surviving questions about web development date from the spring of 2015, when he was sixteen. A CyberForum profile in his former name was registered that April and records 104 posts. ^[23] Later the same month he joined javascript.ru, where he asked about jQuery and the WordPress editor, and within days was answering other newcomers, diagnosing one’s broken script path. ^[24]⁠^[25]⁠^[26] On 8 May 2015 he asked how to add formatting buttons to the WordPress editor for a site he had built for a client. ^[27] Both profiles give his birth year as 1997; he says he overstated his age online as a teenager. ^[23]⁠^[24]⁠^[5]

Teeworlds and DDraceNetwork

Teeworlds, the game Delasy started playing in 2007, is what led him to programming, and he kept playing it for more than a decade. ^[1] From 2014 he played DDraceNetwork, a cooperative racing modification of the game usually shortened to DDNet, under the name paulmost. His first recorded finish was on 15 February 2014, on the map Jailbreak 3, in one hour and thirty-eight minutes. ^[28]

In November 2015 he set down how he had started, in a thread for names and playing history in the Russian Teeworlds group on VK. He had found the game while staying the night at his elder brother's flat and watching him play, and installed it on what he described as an ancient computer. For a nickname he turned his mouse over and read the word printed underneath: Rass. The name he is better known by was borrowed: he took paulmost from a player called Paulmast, whom he wanted to befriend and imitated instead. They never became friends, he says, because Paulmast spoke German and he did not; but Paulmast stopped killing him. ^[5] He was eleven, he wrote, when he worked out that clearing the filters in the server browser revealed far more servers than he had been seeing, and the first he joined was the block map skynet_compilation, where he stayed about six months. Two years on blmapV5 and half a year on blmapV3 followed. ^[29]

Tired of block play, he picked a server at random, landed on ddmax.pro and found DDRace, along with his first friend in it, a player called Yuzu, with whom he ran the map "fly to the moon" until he reached the top fifteen. He stopped playing to sit his ninth-year examinations, having promised himself he would not return until they were done, and came back in his first year of college — a sequence his other records bear out, since he entered college in September 2013 and his first recorded finish is dated 15 February 2014 ^[5]⁠^[20] — where the player Kicker taught him the edge and fly-edge techniques. He credited another block map, starblock, with teaching him his English, and on dent thanked three Ukrainian players — Obito634, BannZay and Shefer.A — for taking him as he was. He has since named a dozen more players from those servers as the people he picked the language up from in practice, among them 2Pac, cult, voiice, chises, Blablabla.BOSS, Dawn, Nealson and Busta. ^[5] Kicker, BannZay, Obito634, Axia and Blablabla.BOSS all appear among the ten partners he finished the most maps with — five of the names he gave from memory, on a list he did not compile. ^[29]⁠^[28]⁠^[5] Kicker was also his partner in both of the DDNet Quick Tournaments he entered, in May and June 2015, where the pair finished 32nd of 50 teams and 15th of 17. ^[30]⁠^[31] He was writing at a moment when he had stopped playing, he said, because his network card had died. ^[29] His own timeline dates the start of his Teeworlds years to 2007; in this account he placed it a year or so later. ^[1]⁠^[29]

Under that name he accumulated 3,774 points and ranked about 11,000th of 33,619 ranked players, playing most often on the German servers. ^[28] His points came from every difficulty tier, most of them in the Moderate, DDmaX.Next and Brutal categories, and he finished 130 of the 160 maps in the Novice tier. ^[28] He completed 468 maps in all, and his best times on them add up to 214 hours — the winning runs alone, in a game that records nothing of the failed attempts. Most of that came in one year: 338 of the 468 were first finished in 2015. His longest runs were Brutal-tier marathons, Everdeen and Milthrid Core, at more than four and a half hours each. ^[28] His best placing on any single map was 121st in the world, on the Moderate map Mirage, in June 2015. ^[28] Most of his play was cooperative. The players he ran with most often were Kicker, BannZay and Axia. ^[28] He never joined a clan. ^[32]⁠^[5] BannZay, another Ukrainian, tested his maps on the DDNet forum and knew him away from the game: the two talked on Skype, and he remembers him as a developer. ^[5]⁠^[33] A GitHub account under the same name describes a .NET developer in Ukraine, which fits, though nothing on it refers to the game. ^[34] The connection between the two players is recorded from both directions — each appears on the other's list of most frequent partners, at eight shared finishes. ^[28]⁠^[35] He says the pair worked out a movement technique they called the deepfreeze fly. ^[5] That name appears nowhere in the game's documentation, but deep fly does: a technique in which an unfrozen tee hammers a deep-frozen one, giving it a single frame in which to hammer back. ^[36] What survives is a credit. On 18 October 2015 BannZay announced he was giving up mapping and posted his unfinished files for anyone to take, and the last of the three is listed as "Deep fly map by paulmost" — Deep_Fly_Pro.map, 848 kilobytes, downloaded 138 times. ^[37] He says that when he came back to the game years later, BannZay no longer remembered him. ^[5]

The paulmost name recorded its last finish in September 2021; on the fifteenth of that month, his twenty-third birthday, an account under his new name, delasy, recorded its first, and he played under it until September 2024, finishing 123 maps for 1,059 points. He carried nothing over and began again from zero. ^[38]⁠^[28] He puts the end of his real Teeworlds years at about 2015 or 2016; what the record shows after that is visits — thirty-one maps in 2016, a handful across 2017 and 2019, a burst of sixty-three in early 2021, then the delasy account until 2024. ^[5]⁠^[28]⁠^[38]

The game produced code as well as hours. Besides the 2012 aimbot, in February 2021 he started teerun, a project of his own derived from Teeworlds, with a client written in C, a server, and a web front end and back end; he published it to GitHub in January 2024 among his archived work. ^[9]

The DDNet forum

He registered on the DDNet forum under the same name on 11 June 2015, aged sixteen, and posted there for just over six months, making his last post on 20 December that year. The account records 75 posts and gives his location as Ukraine. Three posts in five were in the map testing board, and the thread he posted in most was the one for his own map. ^[32] Neither of his later names ever appears on the forum, so his whole written record there sits in those six months. ^[32]

He submitted his first map, AllinBlack, made with a mapper called shotgunfly, on 23 June 2015, and a second, All in Clouds, that summer. Neither was released; both were archived later in 2015, and he has no mapper profile on the site. ^[39]⁠^[33]

His forum threads also record the beginning of his engineering. By December 2015, aged seventeen, he had rented a server, installed Ubuntu and Apache, was running a DDraceNetwork server on it and building a website to show live player statistics, and asked the forum for help with the database, saying he was a beginner. ^[40] In the same month he listed his skills as C++, HTML, SQL, SSL, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and web design while pitching himself as an in-game moderator. ^[41] He also campaigned for a Russian-language DDNet, which he called DDRus and had already prototyped on free hosting. He pointed out to deen, the founder of DDNet, that the German servers sat empty while the Russian ones filled up and that the English map editor was hard for Russian speakers; told that the obstacle was the cost of memory, he offered to find a sponsor or become one himself. ^[42]

His last post, on 20 December 2015, was in a thread for saying goodbye. He never posted there again, though he went on playing for another six years. ^[32] In the July of that year he also started a YouTube channel, paulmost KING, and put up four Teeworlds clips across two days, the first of them titled "My first video in tw". It has stood at those four videos, and about eighty views, ever since. ^[43]

Contract work (2016 to 2019)

His own timeline describes a first salaried job in March 2016 as a software engineer at an agency, leaving in March 2017 to work for himself, and ten months at a second agency from October 2017. ^[1] He has since named the first of these as FMP Studio, a Ukrainian web studio where he says he led a team of developers and did some of the programming himself, and describes that engagement and what followed it as contract work rather than employment. ^[5] The second he describes only as a Russian web development agency, through which he built a site for Underline, which he believes was a Russian clothing brand, and the backend for the Tanuki restaurant chain. ^[5] His LinkedIn profile names neither agency and lists the whole period from May 2013 to January 2019 as freelance web development. ^[7]

The project record he keeps does not describe a series of jobs. It lists twenty-eight named projects between May 2013 and October 2024; in thirty-one of those months at least two ran at once, and in June, July and August 2018 four did. ^[5] TvoyDom Club, a homestay marketplace he says he built and designed alone, began in August 2016 while he was still at FMP Studio. ^[5] That summer he and Julia also set out to open a web studio of their own in Kryvyi Rih, Igolia, its name joining Igor and Yuliia. ^[5] Its site gave 9 July 2016 as the founding date and listed TvoyDom among three clients, and it was live at igolia.tk in March 2017; he says the studio did not take off and they dropped the idea. ^[44]⁠^[45]⁠^[5] The browser game Terr.io — built on the open-source Ogar engine — overlapped KingBet, which he describes as a gambling-news site, through the summer of 2017. ^[5] The only archived capture of king-bet.club from those months, taken in May 2017, is a Russian-language page selling subscriptions to betting tips in three paid tiers. ^[46] The record thins with age. Roughly half of the projects he lists leave some public trace — an archived page, a domain registration, a company filing, or code under his old handle — and the rest survive only in his own account; the earliest, including FMP Studio itself, leave none. ^[5] He took work through Ukrainian freelance platforms until 2018, when he moved to Upwork. ^[5]

Client work from this period survives on GitHub under his former name. Between 28 July and 6 September 2017 he wrote payment and refund modules for the MandarinBank gateway, covering Bitrix, DIAFAN.CMS, Joomla 2.5 and 3, MODX Evolution and Revolution, PHPShop and Webasyst. The ten repositories carry 72 commits authored by Igor Vuchastyi, and the documentation is in Russian. ^[19] One module names the developer in full, with the patronymic Yaroslavovich. ^[19] He says he wrote plugins for PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest bank, in the same period. Those repositories are gone and no copy survives, but the archive index preserves four of their names: modules for Bitrix, OpenCart and Magento integrating the bank's PayParts instalment product. ^[5]⁠^[47]

He also filed issues and patches against widely used projects in these years. In February 2018 he opened a pull request against Yii2, one of the most widely used PHP frameworks, proposing to catch and re-throw a misleading exception in its dependency injection container. ^[48] The pull request was closed without being merged, but the fix was not rejected: a maintainer landed an equivalent change that September, and the framework's release notes for version 2.0.16, published on 30 January 2019, credit the bug to "vuchastyi". ^[49]⁠^[48] The credit is still in the file today. The bug came out of paid work: on the day he filed it he was building Sigmamobi, a mobile-traffic platform on Yii 2, and two further Yii 2 projects — the restaurant chain Tanuki and a property visualiser, DESIGNready, where his job was to put Three.js inside Vue — followed within months. ^[5] He opened two issues on ESLint in April and May 2018 about the array-element-newline rule, signing one comment "Regards, Igor Vuchastyi" and apologising that his English was "lil bad". ^[2] In December 2018 he submitted a documentation fix to Google's Material Components for the Web; it was merged on 7 January 2019 and the commits are authored to Igor Vuchastyi. ^[3]

From February to June 2019 he worked as a front-end developer on magia.ai. ^[7] His LinkedIn describes the company as a San Francisco artificial-intelligence retail start-up; he describes the product as a wine community and says he worked on it inside a local Ukrainian team. ^[7]⁠^[5] Archived copies of the site bear out both. In March 2019 magia.ai was a WordPress site selling “wine subscriptions powered by insiders”, and by July its homepage added “a bit of AI” to the recommendations. ^[50]⁠^[51] Alongside it, a subdomain served a wine-assistant chatbot branded for Dan Murphy’s, an Australian liquor retailer, and a page titled Magia for retail offered the product to wine shops as an embeddable subscription service. ^[52]⁠^[53] His own timeline describes the period as half a year spent inside a single website. ^[1]

Name change

Delasy used the name Igor Vuchastyi until 2019, and the last thing he published under it was named after himself. On 9 May 2019 he released eslint-config-vuchastyi, a set of personal linting rules, pushing four versions to npm in under an hour that afternoon. ^[54] He unpublished all four on 29 August 2019 — eighteen days before he registered delasy.com on 16 September, the day after his twenty-first birthday. ^[54]⁠^[17] Earlier that year the name appears in a create-react-app issue of 15 February, whose example licence header reads "Copyright 2019 Igor Vuchastyi". ^[4] He opened the GitHub account "delasy" on 29 November 2019. ^[9] The original GitHub account, whose login was "vuchastyi", was deleted; the issues he opened on ESLint and create-react-app now show their author as "ghost", though maintainers addressed him by the old handle at the time. ^[2]⁠^[4] The login itself was claimed on 12 May 2024 by his elder brother, who shares the surname, so the address now resolves to his account. ^[55]⁠^[5] What survives of the original is an index rather than the code. Software Heritage, an archive that crawls public repositories for preservation, holds forty-seven origins under the name — among them the MandarinBank modules, four PrivatBank payment plugins, two calendars for TvoyDom and a repository called trade-change, matching projects he lists for 2016 to 2018. ^[47]⁠^[5] Almost none were captured before the account went. Two were: the older, called airbnb, is three commits made on 9 June 2016 and signed Igor Vuchastyi, the oldest of his code to survive anywhere. ^[56] His personal domain vuchastyi.com lapsed and appears in a list of names that expired on 5 February 2020. ^[57] Dormant profiles under the former name survive elsewhere: an account on Facebook, and a Coub channel opened on 10 July 2014 under the transliteration "Igor' Vuchastyy", which never posted a video of its own. ^[58]⁠^[59] The Ukrainian spelling of the name, Ігор Вучастий, leaves almost no trace at all; what survives is in the Russian form and in Latin transliteration.

The change is also visible in his own archives. The Atom editor package for his first language named Igor Vuchastyi as its author; the copy he later republished in his own account credits Aaron Delasy instead. ^[60] In April 2024 he published a shell script that rewrites the author on roughly 590 commits from the root of a repository and force-pushes the result. ^[18] No commit under the former name survives in his own repositories, and the initial commit of The Programming Language, dated 8 May 2018, is attributed to Aaron Delasy. ^[11] The new account then stood empty for more than three years: the earliest repository still on it was created on 18 January 2023, and everything older was published later, in dated batches. ^[9]

The Programming Language

Delasy began work on his own programming language on 8 May 2018. ^[1]⁠^[11] Its first incarnation was called Let, hosted at let-lang.org, for which he published an Atom editor package under his former name. ^[60] Its code survives as a single repository, dated June 2018, holding three successive versions, each smaller than the last: a full compiler of 218 files, then 27, then 12. ^[61] The project was later renamed The Programming Language. ^[11] The repository’s initial commit is dated 8 May 2018, but the next commit came almost three years later, in March 2021, when sustained development began. He registered the thelang-io organisation on GitHub on 13 April 2021. ^[11]

The compiler is written in C++ and is about 1.7 megabytes of source across a lexer, parser, abstract syntax tree, type and variable maps, and a code generator that emits C. ^[11] The documentation states that the language "was developed and designed by one person", naming Delasy, and says its name means that it has no name. ^[12] The README sets out five goals: unique, fast, helpful, portable and cloud-based, with programs meant to run about as fast as those written in C and the language running in the cloud to cut the time spent installing and compiling. ^[62] He explained the motivation at the time as a belief that there should be a single language for every task, having learned and used around fifteen of them and found each new one painful to pick up. ^[12] He built the surrounding tooling himself as well: a Visual Studio Code extension published in July 2022 and updated through September 2023, which recorded 1,364 installs, a package registry, a GitHub Action that installed the compiler, and Terraform configuration provisioning the project’s Amazon Web Services infrastructure. ^[63]⁠^[64]⁠^[65]⁠^[66] The language was installed by piping a shell script from its own content delivery network. ^[67]

The repository records 2,051 commits and exactly one contributor. Activity peaked in 2023 with 755 commits, and the last push was on 2 March 2025. ^[11] The repository has 43 stars and no forks, most of the stars arriving in a single burst in August 2024. ^[11] His LinkedIn records the project as running from May 2018 to April 2025. ^[7] He stayed with it on purpose: in May 2023, explaining why he was in his fifth year on the language, he wrote that fifteen of his earlier projects had failed only because he kept switching to a new one before finishing the last. ^[68] He says he stopped work on it about a week before he started FigForm, and on 26 May 2025 he wrote that he had finally stopped after seven years and moved to a smaller, more manageable project for building forms. ^[5]⁠^[69] The project was hosted on his personal domain before it had one of its own, at the.delasy.com from May 2021, a fortnight before thelang.io was first issued a certificate. ^[70] He has since lost thelang.io: it was re-registered on 22 August 2026 on the nameservers of a domain trader, and it and its documentation subdomain now serve a page offering the name for sale, so the installer its site gave no longer works. ^[71]⁠^[11]

Offertizer and Delta Plata (2019 to 2025)

In July 2019 Delasy joined Offertizer, a marketing and sales-acceleration business based in Malmö, Sweden, which he worked for remotely. He was a senior full-stack developer until November 2021 and a team leader from December 2021 until August 2024, five years and two months in all. ^[1]⁠^[7] The company is now registered in Spain as The Offertizer Group SL, incorporated in the Canary Islands in July 2021. ^[72] In a LinkedIn post of January 2026 he wrote that during these years he built gamified multi-step forms for a marketing agency, each taking around sixteen developer hours, and that this work later motivated FigForm. ^[7] Eleven of the projects in his own list fall inside this period, among them the CallsApp dashboard, Reformatizer and the Adgrabber portal; he says many of them were Offertizer's own client work rather than outside contracts, which is why his project record and his employment record cover the same years without contradicting each other. ^[5]

In September 2023 he co-founded Delta Plata with Michael Pritulyak, who was chief executive to Delasy's chief technology officer. ^[15] It was a Ukrainian web development agency trading under the line "we develop anything what you desire", with five case studies — Adgrabber, Hedh-Escalante, magia.ai, Reformatizer and TvoyDom — all projects from his own list, most of them older than the agency. ^[73] He describes it on his own site as the first company with his name on it. ^[1] LinkedIn dates his involvement from September 2023 to December 2025; the company announced on its LinkedIn page that it had closed on 1 December 2025, and the site behind its domain no longer loads. ^[7]⁠^[74]⁠^[15]

Bee Techy (2024 to present)

Delasy joined Bee Techy on 16 October 2024 as a team leader and became chief technology officer on 1 July 2025. ^[1]⁠^[7] Bee Techy is a Los Angeles web development agency whose chief executive and founder is Eddy Moskalenko. ^[8] It was registered as a company in 2020, though he says its founder had been running it before then, and an earlier version of its About page dated the team’s work together to 2015. ^[8]⁠^[5]⁠^[75] Its About page lists Delasy as chief technology officer, "the architect of our digital hive". ^[8]

He has settled the size of the team he leads: as a team leader he led about ten people across several projects at once, and as chief technology officer he is responsible for the whole engineering department, about thirty people; the company overall is about fifty. ^[5] Public sources agree with this rather than conflict with it. His own timeline and a post of February 2026 describe a company of thirty developers, matching the engineering department he now runs, while his streaming and video profiles put the figure at more than fifty, matching the company as a whole. ^[1]⁠^[10]⁠^[76] Bee Techy’s own About page names forty-five people: eight in leadership, twenty-five developers, six project managers and six quality-assurance engineers. ^[8] A customer story published by the meeting-transcription company Fireflies in January 2026, in which he is the interviewed customer, describes Bee Techy as a fifty-person Los Angeles agency saving about thirty hours a week through the tool. ^[77] That case study appears to be the only substantial third-party coverage of him.

FigForm

Delasy started FigForm on 2 April 2025 and ran it alone. ^[1] It is a drag-and-drop builder for branded web forms, pitched first as "design stunning forms with Figma-like precision" and later as building high-converting on-brand forms in minutes. ^[78]⁠^[13] He has said the idea came from a friend in marketing who was struggling to rebuild a client's branded contact form from a Figma design. ^[13]

The product opened in beta in June 2025 and launched on Product Hunt on 17 July 2025, where it received six upvotes. ^[79] A Show HN post the following day received one point. ^[80] By 18 January 2026 he reported fifty users. ^[81] Beyond a free tier, its two paid plans cost $29 and $89 a month, or $24 and $74 a month billed yearly. ^[82]⁠^[83] He shipped steadily through to February 2026, with a changelog covering form templates, custom domains, team members, CAPTCHA, real-time collaboration, undo and redo, and element states, and wrote all thirty-nine posts on the product blog himself. ^[13]

The terms of service name the operator as Aaron Delasy, an individual entrepreneur based in Ukraine, and are governed by Ukrainian law, although the company is registered in Dover, Delaware. ^[84]⁠^[85] The product moved from figform.io to figform.com in November 2025. ^[86] On 20 August 2026 he listed FigForm for sale on TrustMRR at $10,000, describing it as pre-revenue with a codebase of about 72,000 lines and saying he was going all in on a new project. ^[83] Two weeks later he reported ten saves and five offers, all of them from people pitching acquisition marketplaces of their own, and on 6 September he cut the asking price to $4,900. ^[87]⁠^[83]

Aldena

Aldena is a platform for teams of AI agents. Delasy dates its start to 2 May 2026; the domain was registered later that month and the first public version shipped in July. It is described on its own site as an AI workforce that runs monthly client retainers, or more plainly as "an ai team you can watch work". ^[1]⁠^[14] Users staff rooms with agents in named roles, watch them work, answer their questions and approve what ships. ^[14] It ships eleven prebuilt roles, among them an assistant, a project manager, a business analyst, an engineering manager, a solution architect, front-end, back-end and full-stack developers, a reviewer and a bug fixer, and connects to ten services including GitHub, Jira, Linear, Notion, Sentry, Slack and Vercel. ^[14]

Version 1.0 shipped on 16 July 2026 and the changelog reached 1.15 within a month. ^[14] Pricing is charged per active member per month, at $99 on the Starter tier and $249 on Business, with model usage and server time drawn from prepaid credits at a ten per cent platform fee. ^[88] He has described the intended customers as founder-led business-to-business product studios and agencies, and says he built it so that an AI workforce could handle client retainers. ^[14]

The launch was promoted largely by his own hand. He listed Aldena on Uneed and WIP, opened a pull request adding it to a public directory while disclosing that it was his product, published an LLM leaderboard page ranking several hundred models, and spent about $400 on directory submissions to raise the domain's authority score. ^[14]⁠^[89] His LinkedIn entry for Aldena already carries an end date of September 2026. ^[7]

Other projects and open source work

RateLimit.Org was a service for throttling outbound requests to avoid HTTP 429 errors, built over a weekend in January 2023 after he ran into rate limits on Airtable while working on four projects at once. ^[90]⁠^[91] He posted it to Hacker News in March 2023, where it received three points, and to Product Hunt, where it received six upvotes. ^[80]⁠^[90] The site stayed up unchanged into 2025; the domain then lapsed and was re-registered on 7 August 2026 by someone else, and now serves an unrelated proxy business. ^[92]⁠^[90]

Blue/Green Deployment, published in September 2024, is a GitHub Action that performs blue-green deploys for PM2 applications over SSH behind NGINX. It is listed on the GitHub Marketplace and has had seven releases. ^[93]

His most widely used piece of code was not a product. A gist published on 6 August 2024 that generated promotional keys for the Telegram game Hamster Kombat drew 552 comments and 20 forks before he marked it unmaintained seven weeks later, and was republished by third parties crediting him by name. ^[94]

He has contributed to other people's projects throughout. He submitted a code-health pull request to the workflow automation tool n8n in August 2022, correcting spelling across 70 files, and is credited in its release notes. Because n8n is widely forked, that single commit now carries his name into more than four thousand other repositories. ^[95] Between October and December 2024 he was a heavy contributor to two community game projects run by the YouTube channel Web Dev Cody, opening more than thirty pull requests across them. ^[96] He has filed issues against Go, OpenSSL, libwebsockets, Drizzle, Zod and Next.js. ^[9] On 23 January 2024 he published 26 older projects to his GitHub account in a single day, each as one commit dated to when the work was done. ^[9] The older ones had lived on his deleted vuchastyi account; he says he copied their files into new repositories because he did not then know that commit history could be carried across. ^[5] Many were side projects he started and never finished, he says. ^[5] Seven date from before 2019. The oldest, a PHP social network, is dated December 2015, three months before FMP Studio. The others include the code of the TradeChange exchange from March 2018, three successive C++ versions of his language under its first name, Let, and Elacrua, a script written in December 2018 that sets up an IKEv2 virtual private network server on Ubuntu. ^[9]⁠^[97]⁠^[61] Another is the site of Igolia, the studio he planned in 2016. ^[44]

Content creation and streaming

Delasy opened a YouTube channel in April 2020 but did not publish regularly until 2023. ^[10] On 19 March 2023 he posted the first of an eight-part tutorial series on The Programming Language, which ran to May that year. ^[10] In April and May 2024 he published a fifteen-part daily series building a Next.js and Tailwind site for the language. ^[10] The channel had 23 subscribers, 33 videos and 1,646 views in September 2026. ^[10]

He began live-streaming on 4 April 2026 with a session on setting up an AI coding agent, and streamed through April on agent workflows and system design, simulcasting to Twitch and Kick. ^[10]⁠^[76] From 14 August 2026 he ran a daily numbered video series on X about FigForm and his next product. ^[98]

He posts across a wide range of services, most of them with small followings: about 250 followers on X, 2,248 on LinkedIn, 31 on GitHub, 23 on YouTube and fewer than 25 on Instagram, TikTok, Twitch and Kick as of September 2026. ^[9]⁠^[7]⁠^[98]⁠^[10] He was active on Indie Hackers, Product Hunt and WIP, where he kept a public list of tasks, and is no longer active on any of them. ^[89]⁠^[91]⁠^[5]

Working method and views

Delasy is self-taught and describes himself that way in nearly every profile, alongside the claim of thirteen years building for the web and no formal information technology education. ^[9]⁠^[10]⁠^[76] He works alone on his own products: FigForm, Aldena and The Programming Language were each built by one person. ^[12]⁠^[83]⁠^[14]

He builds in public and instruments the process. He runs launches through directories, keeps public changelogs and roadmaps, writes his own product blogs, and reports the numbers, including the unflattering ones, such as the offers a pre-revenue product drew in its first two weeks on sale. ^[13]⁠^[83]⁠^[14] He has said he spoke to more than ten chief technology officers about the idea behind Aldena before pursuing it. ^[98]

Personal life

In 2020 he made music under his own name. He says he recorded seven songs and released them on the major streaming services; the first, a single called “Lose Your Mind”, came out on 23 June 2020. ^[99]⁠^[5] delasy.com began that summer as his artist site, built around a second single, “Dollar Over Euro”, due on 19 August. ^[100] He later withdrew every song because, he says, nobody was listening; his Spotify artist page survives with no tracks. ^[5]⁠^[101]

Delasy married Julia on 9 December 2020 after four years together. ^[1] On 10 April 2021 the couple opened Delasy Dance, a dance school in Kryvyi Rih, the city in central Ukraine where they are based, teaching twerk, jazz funk, high heels, stretching and contemporary. ^[1]⁠^[16] He took his driving licence in December 2021. ^[1]

His profiles have consistently given Ukraine as his location, and his X profile still does, while his LinkedIn gives Los Angeles, where his employer is based. ^[7]⁠^[98] In April 2025 he referred publicly to the blackouts Ukraine has experienced since 2022. ^[98] His first trip abroad was to Turkey in July 2018 and his second to Spain in February 2022. ^[1]

He began exercising three times a week in January 2023 and has kept it up, logging his 550th session in August 2026. ^[1]⁠^[89] On the morning of 20 June 2023 he ran ten kilometres in Kryvyi Rih, covering 10.04 km in 1 hour 3 minutes 38 seconds — an average of 6 minutes 20 seconds a kilometre, over 104 metres of climb. ^[102] In July 2023 he completed two endurance challenges he set himself and announced publicly: 1,500 situps, done ten at a time every two minutes against a countdown app he wrote, and 1,000 pushups in eleven hours. ^[103]⁠^[104]

Current work

As of September 2026 Delasy describes himself on X and LinkedIn as building Kelp, a desktop application for giving visual feedback to AI coding agents, and says it is launching soon. ^[7]⁠^[98] Its site, kelp.md, describes a Mac app that turns a screen recording, narration and drawings into one link a coding agent can read, and offers version 0.1.0 as a free download for Apple silicon. ^[105]

Writings

Media coverage

References

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2. [2]array-element-newline: proposal for a consistent option (issue #10310). ESLint on GitHub, 4 May 2018. Comment signed “Regards, Igor Vuchastyi”; maintainers address the now-deleted author as @vuchastyi
3. [3]docs: fix layout-grid mixin reference (commit 29d9781). Material Components for the Web on GitHub, 7 January 2019. Authored “Igor Vuchastyi”
4. [4]Source License notice strip (issue #6441). create-react-app on GitHub, 15 February 2019. Example header reads “Copyright 2019 Igor Vuchastyi”
5. [5]Aaron Delasy, his own account. Given directly to this page, September 2026. Recollections that rest on the subject’s memory rather than on a public record are cited here
6. [6]Відомості про коледж (History of the college). Mining Electro-Mechanical Applied College. Founded March 1962 as the Kryvyi Rih Machine-Building Technical School; attached to the university in 1998; named a технікум until University Order No. 70 of 2015 renamed the subdivisions коледж, and фаховий коледж after the 2019 reform. Retrieved 8 September 2026
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41. [41]In-game Moderator or Helper. DDraceNetwork forum, December 2015. Lists his skills at seventeen
42. [42]Hi! someone thought about DDRus?. DDraceNetwork forum, 2015. The Russian-language DDNet proposal
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45. [45]Главная — Igolia. Internet Archive, Snapshots March 2017. Forty captures of igolia.tk, 3–23 March 2017
46. [46]King-Bet homepage. Internet Archive, Snapshot 24 May 2017. Russian-language betting-tips subscriptions in three tiers, $50 to $500
47. [47]Origin search: vuchastyi. Software Heritage. Forty-seven archived origins, including privatbank_Bitrix_PayParts, privatbank_Opencart_PayParts, privatbank_Magento_PayParts, ochprivatbank_opencart, tvoydom-owner-calendar, tvoydom-guest-calendar and trade-change. Retrieved 8 September 2026
48. [48]Added try catch for yii2/framework/di/Container (pull request #15802). Yii Framework on GitHub, 27 February 2018. Two commits authored “Igor Vuchastyi”, touching framework/di/Container.php; closed unmerged, the equivalent fix landed as commit 633d6b93b on 8 September 2018. The account now shows as “ghost”. Retrieved 8 September 2026
49. [49]Yii 2.0.16 changelog. Yii Framework on GitHub, 30 January 2019. Credits “vuchastyi” for the yii\di\Container fix
50. [50]Magia.ai — Wine Subscriptions (site index). Internet Archive, Snapshot 10 March 2019. WordPress site name and tagline, “Wine subscriptions powered by insiders”
51. [51]Magia homepage. Internet Archive, Snapshot 24 July 2019. Personalised wine subscriptions chosen by insiders “and a bit of AI”; closed beta
52. [52]Dan Murphy’s Wine Assistant chat settings. Internet Archive, Snapshot 11 April 2019. A wine chatbot for the Australian retailer, served from msg.magia.ai
53. [53]Magia for retail. Internet Archive, Snapshot 24 July 2019. Pitches Magia to wine retailers as an embeddable subscription service
54. [54]eslint-config-vuchastyi. npm registry, 9 May 2019. Versions 1.0.0 to 1.0.3 published between 16:17 and 17:09 UTC on 9 May 2019; all four unpublished 29 August 2019. Retrieved 8 September 2026
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59. [59]Игорь Вучастый — channel on Coub. Coub, Created 10 July 2014. Channel title “Igor’ Vuchastyy”; three followers, one repost, no videos of its own. Retrieved 8 September 2026
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68. [68]Reply to @levelsio. X, 4 May 2023. Says fifteen earlier projects failed because he switched to another before finishing. Retrieved 15 September 2026
69. [69]Reply to @0xluffy. X, 26 May 2025. Says he has stopped working on a programming language after seven years for a smaller project for building forms. Retrieved 15 September 2026
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74. [74]Delta Plata. LinkedIn, December 2025. Announces the company closed on 1 December 2025
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82. [82]FigForm pricing. figform.com. Agency Pro $29 a month ($24 billed yearly); Business $89 a month ($74 billed yearly). Retrieved 15 September 2026
83. [83]FigForm listing. TrustMRR, Listed 20 August 2026. Asking price $10,000, cut to $4,900 on 6 September 2026; pre-revenue; 71,636 lines of code; five offers. Retrieved 14 September 2026
84. [84]FigForm terms of service. figform.com, 8 September 2025
85. [85]FigForm. Crunchbase. Founded 1 April 2025, Dover, Delaware
86. [86]Aaron Delasy. We just moved FigForm to figform.com. figform.com, 15 November 2025
87. [87]Post on two weeks of listing FigForm for sale. X, 6 September 2026. Ten saves and five offers
88. [88]Aldena pricing. aldena.ai. Retrieved 6 September 2026
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90. [90]delasy/ratelimit.org. GitHub, 20 January 2023
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94. [94]Hamster Kombat playground promo code keys generator. GitHub Gist, 6 August 2024. 552 comments, 20 forks; marked unmaintained 26 September 2024
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97. [97]delasy/trade-change. GitHub, Commit dated 7 March 2018. Code of the trade-change.com exchange; published 23 January 2024
98. [98]@aarondelasy. X. Bio, posts and metrics. Retrieved 6 September 2026
99. [99]Aaron Delasy. Genius. Lists the single Lose Your Mind, released 23 June 2020
100. [100]delasy/delasy-com. GitHub, Commit dated 16 July 2020. Source of “Aaron Delasy Official Website”, with a page for the single Dollar Over Euro, due 19 August 2020
101. [101]Aaron Delasy. Spotify. Artist page with no tracks. Retrieved 15 September 2026
102. [102]Running activity record, 20 June 2023. Tracker entry supplied by the subject. 10.04 km in 1:03:38, 6:20 per kilometre, 104 m of climb, 136 cadence, Kryvyi Rih
103. [103]Post announcing the 1,500 situps attempt. X, 22 July 2023
104. [104]Post reporting 1,000 pushups in 11 hours. X, 30 July 2023
105. [105]Kelp for Mac. kelp.md. Version 0.1.0, free, Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later. Retrieved 14 September 2026

External links

• delasy.com
• GitHub
• X
• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• FigForm
• Aldena
• The Programming Language (source)