Startup

In an era when information spreads at lightning speed, the ability to work with open sources has become a superpower for many. OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) allows you to analyze huge amounts of data coming from the media, social networks, open registries and other resources. In business, it helps to track market trends, assess the competitive environment and identify risks in a timely manner. And during war, social networks, photos and videos from the scene of events, satellite images turn into not only evidence and landmarks, but also tools for fighting.

Ukrainian medtech startup Cardio.AI has combined medicine and artificial intelligence. The company uses disposable sensors for long-term heart rate monitoring, and deep learning algorithms mark each heartbeat. Dev.ua spoke with co-founder Maksym Dyachenko about how the idea came about, how the technology works, and why a doctor only comes into play when it’s really necessary.

Seven Ukrainians in the US have launched a startup — an application that helps users get rid of the bad habit of quitting smoking. The co-founders of the service, Kateryna Babiy, technical lead and lead developer of QuitQly, and Oleg Polishchuk, lead integrator of the service, told dev.ua how the application works and who can use it.

A group of Ukrainian IT professionals has released a useful application that helps interpret dreams. dev.ua caught up with the app’s developers, Oleksandr Plekhov and Nazar Babiy, and found out how Snovyda works.

Ovul CTO Ihor Kovalenko explained in a conversation with dev.ua why artificial intelligence technologies are becoming the key to the future of women’s health. The startup is developing a hormone tracker that analyzes saliva and accurately determines the level of estrogen, which is critical for women’s health. Ovul has already been recognized by the IT Arena 2025 jury, which included the gadget in the finalists of the startup competition.

30-year-old Ukrainian Ilya Kostenko has created an AI algorithm that, according to the startuper, can read the minds of customers. Together with his wife Valeria in the USA, Ilya founded a startup that guesses the desires of customers with incredible conversion. His store FOX Nails USA sets trends in global e-commerce and works, according to Ilya, more efficiently than Amazon and changes the rules of the game in e-commerce. That is, now, according to the startuper, instead of the era of mass offers, an era of hyper-personalized commerce is coming, where each customer receives a unique experience adapted to his individual needs. We tell you how a Ukrainian startup in Texas became the first swallow of the revolution, showing that the «telepathy effect» in e-commerce is no longer fiction, but a technological reality of today.

Devops Engineer Yehor Fedorov decided to bring back children’s love of knowledge by developing the application  Vyvchay Prosto, in which school subjects are told in the format of short videos. The goal is to make learning interesting and children can get good grades without stress. This approach has already resonated with the target audience — students and parents. Almost 2,000 followers on Instagram are already waiting for the release of the application, which will take place this week.