"Blackout FM": Ukrainian creative hacked the blackout schedule that you can hear
Ilya Yankov, creative director of marketing solutions agency Havas Engage, created a tool that turns a user’s outage schedule into a melody.
Ilya Yankov, creative director of marketing solutions agency Havas Engage, created a tool that turns a user’s outage schedule into a melody.
"The idea is to give myself and others the opportunity to get a little distracted and experiment with sound," Yankov explained the development he worked on with Claude.
The creative’s idea came from a visual similarity: the graphic cells reminded Ilya of a drum pad — a musical panel with buttons, each of which is responsible for a sound.
Ilya connected DTEK data so that the melody would be based on the outage schedule at the user’s address.
“Usually you open your schedule to understand when to charge everything and have time to work. And so on in a circle. I wanted to give myself and others the opportunity to distract themselves a little — to click on a melody, send it to a friend. To relax a little and get high,” says Ilya Yankov, creative director of HAVAS Engage.
It took about ten minutes to create the basis of the service. The name "Blackout FM" was also suggested by AI. Then there were many more refinements: Ilya refined the visuals, the interface, and even the captions next to the buttons.
So his advice to those who want to try vibecoding: prepare a concept description, collect references, and formulate the first detailed
request.
"Blackout FM" is Ilya’s creative experiment, which grew out of a familiar daily activity for many. Here, you can open the schedule for a few minutes with a different purpose — to listen, tweak the settings, and compose your own track. The service operates in experimental mode, and individual functions are still being finalized.
A Ukrainian developer created an application that shows a schedule of power outages right on the Windows screen
A Ukrainian developer created an application that shows a schedule of power outages right on the Windows screen
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