Tech. Interviews

Ukrainian Dmitry Gerasimenko created Ahrefs service: now it earns millions and competes with Google

In the spring of this year Google got itself a new rival: the founder of the Singapore-based Ahrefs company, Dmitry Gerasimenko, announced that he has been working on an anonymous search engine that would give content authors 90% of the profits.

“The deal was sealed in two weeks” Oleg Rogynskyy, founder of People.ai, on new round worth $60M

Where will the raised funds go According to Rogynskyy, the startup plans to spend part of funds toward staff expansion. In particular, in Kyiv, where People.ai aims to increase the number of employees from 30 people to 100 in the

“This year we are planning to get half a million US dollars in revenue,” Ivan Danishevsky on ESM. One holding development

How many projects do you promote under ESM.ONE? I have one large project, a few smaller ones and lots of MVP. According to my estimate, the total number has reached 32. I can talk about five cases publicly: Analytical agency Esport

An interview with a Ukrainian who relocated to Amsterdam and got hired by PUBG

About relocation: Tell me where you worked after CCP, how did it happen that you got hired by PUBG Corporation? I wanted to take the time and think about my career, life, the universe and all that, but I got

You still take a jitney in Ukraine even if you earn $2k: Ukrainian engineer on relocation to Paris and London

From 2011 to 2015, Aleksandr Kaidannik lived and worked as a system admin and DevOps ― from working at the physical data center, writing tiny snippets, to failover architecture for 1kk QPS ― half the time in Amsterdam, and half

GUDfood founder Alexander Gudkov launches a feedback service Expirenza and gets 200 clients in Ukraine and the U.S. in just 4 months

How did the idea of creating Expirenza come about? What is it? Expirenza is a platform for customer retention and return, and feedback service for offline businesses. We help businesses collect emotions of their customers at the time of their

“Rebranding is the path of least resistance for a business owner.” Interview with the managing partners of the Aimbulance agency

In simple words: what does the transition from a digital agency to a full-cycle agency mean? Victor Dubrovin: For us, this is evolution, the natural course of things. Obviously, digital does not solve all the issues. We began to look

How to transfer a third of customers to online service using a mobile application: a case of Nova Poshta

Modern hyping Artem Volkhonskyi has been the head of digital products development at Nova Poshta since 2014. When he first joined the company, Nova Poshta already had a mobile application developed by third-party contractors. It was the first mobile application

“We have no direct competitors in Ukraine”: interview with TOP Manager of Glovo startup

Why did Glovo decide to enter Ukrainian market? What was it that attracted your startup? Now Glovo is in the phase of active expansion. For the last nine months, we have launched a new city on average every 7 days