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March 27, 2025
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18:00
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From Idea to MVP
2025
Ukraine
The path to becoming a technical founder in Ukraine often starts with a single idea—have you thought about your own pet project?
The Ukrainian IT market is served by more than 300,000 IT professionals. They have a great potential to launch their products, as evidenced by statistics:
- 43.3% have over 6 years of total IT work experience;
- 9% have over 15 years of experience;
- 12% of IT professionals develop their own products in their free time, and this percentage is growing.
Many successful startups were launched as developers' pet projects. Among them is MacPaw, which started using only personal savings; the budget for developing the CleanMyMac app was around $3000.
In addition, the co-founders of such companies as GitLab, Grammarly, Ajax Systems, Respeecher, DressX, Petcube, and Preply are Ukrainians with a technical background.
Meetup speakers
CTO & Co-Founder @ Uspacy
Kyrylo Melnychuk is CTO & Co-Founder at Uspacy, a single digital workspace for SMEs. Uspacy is the winner in the People's Choice category of the USF Startup Awards 2023. Kyrylo is also a CTO & Co-Founder at AlterEGO, an IT integrator with 15 years of experience.
Director of Engineering @ Turnitin
The moderator is Yana Mykhailenko, CTO of Turnitin, an international company that ensures the integrity of education and is a leader in anti-plagiarism solutions. She is a judge and mentor at international competitions and hackathons.
Upcoming events
Tech Stack
On the first Thursday of October, we will hold a Tech Stack meetup to discuss choosing the right technology stack, optimal use of cloud solutions, and effective practices that directly affect development speed, product quality, and infrastructure stability.
Conference | How to Become Great CTO
In November, the DEV Challenge team, in cooperation with UNIT.City, will once again bring together Ukrainian tech leaders, entrepreneurs, company and startup founders, CTOs, and managers to discuss the most relevant and important topics in technology, business, and leadership.
Meetup #21
Full information about the meetup will appear here soon.
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