About Varta
Founder

Daryna Fornalska

Founder of Varta. I build tools that make community admins' day lighter — more time for the parts they love, less mental load on the parts a machine can quietly handle.

What I work on

Varta — an AI moderation bot for Telegram groups and channels. The product reads every message in 33 languages, learns the context of each community, and quietly handles spam, scams, and impersonators in the background. Today (May 2026) Varta protects 46 active communities and around 29,000 members across 10 active languages, with a measured 2.3% false-positive rate over the last 30 days.

The product idea I'm proudest of is progressive trust: instead of giving the bot full power on day one, admins start in shadow mode where the AI privately flags what it would do, and earn the bot more autonomy as it proves itself in their group. It's the inverse of "install and pray," and as far as I can tell no other Telegram moderation bot ships this pattern.

Background

Before Varta I spent years inside community management — running and contributing to Telegram groups well past 10,000 members, watching the admin job evolve from "writing rules" into something closer to "tuning a system." That experience shaped what Varta is: a tool that respects the admin's judgment instead of replacing it, and one that gets out of the way once it's earned trust.

I'm a solo technical founder. Varta is built by me end-to-end — the AI pipeline, the Telegram bot, the billing, the landing, this very page. I write in Ukrainian, Russian, and English, and I think about brand voice the same way I think about product: warmth, calm authority, and the quiet kind of competence that doesn't need to shout.

What I write about

Most of my published writing lives on the Varta blog. Recurring themes:

  • Telegram moderation in 2026 — what works, what's drifting out of relevance, what to switch off
  • AI content moderation — how progressive trust, multilingual reasoning, and cross-group reputation actually behave at scale
  • Solo SaaS — quarterly numbers posts (like May 2026) where I share the production data instead of marketing claims
  • Tooling for community admins — how to keep groups calm without becoming a full-time moderator

Topics I'm comfortable speaking on

  • AI moderation for online communities, including practical limits and failure modes
  • Solo SaaS founder lessons — building a real product on Telegram's API + LLM stack
  • GDPR-compliant SaaS design from an EU-registered company
  • Multilingual NLP in production — what "33 languages" actually means at the engineering level
  • Community design — moving an admin's day from reactive to background-handled

If you're a journalist, podcaster, or community manager looking for a perspective from someone running the system live in production, I'm happy to talk. The fastest reach is @darynakulya on Telegram or email [email protected].

Company

Varta is operated by "DEEP IN" EDPK (ДИЙП ИН ЕДПК), registered in Sofia, Bulgaria. EU-based, GDPR-compliant, with EU servers (Hetzner, Finland). Founded in 2025.

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