Amid a fuel crisis, GdeBENZ appeared — a crowdsourced map where drivers mark in real time which stations have fuel, where the queue is, and where it's pointless to go. No registration, no separate app: four statuses per station, and the map runs right in the browser.
In its first days the service gathered over 100,000 reports, 2,000 manually added stations, and 80,000 home-screen installs. Per Yandex.Metrica — 1.8M unique visitors and 13.2M views in three days.
Who built it
The author is marketer and entrepreneur Evgeny Chudov, founder of the Marketly ad exchange and the "Otlozhka" auto-posting bot (used by 30,000+ channels). He says he came up with the idea on a plane, sketched a plan on landing — and by evening it was all working. He didn't start from zero: he already had distribution and a habit of building his own tools.
The service is built with Claude. Asked about development, Chudov was terse: "More tokens than you can count" — he burned nearly two weekly limits of the Claude Max plan (x20 the normal limits) in those days.
Why it's telling
The infrastructure wasn't ready for the surge: for the first day he hopped from server to server, and some users still see lag. Chudov refuses normal monetization on principle — "I'd rather go into the red than push people garbage" — for now, only voluntary tips for servers.
It's rare that such narrow communication services are suddenly and massively needed. But when the need arises, with tools like Claude Code a lone vibe-coder closes it faster than any corporation — both in development speed and in the willingness to show a shortage in real time, which for a big company today is socially radioactive.
Based on an interview by "Radiorubka Likhacheva" and vc.ru.