Startup

Iran is a country cut off from Google Play, Visa, AWS, and international venture capital. These restrictions have forced local entrepreneurs to build their own digital ecosystem from scratch.

Volodymyr Yushchenko, a 23-year-old from Kyiv, is developing an app called SlixOne that helps people find company for a vacation in real time. The project is designed as an alternative to traditional dating services, focusing on going to bars or going for walks together. We talked with Volodymyr about how the idea for the application came about, how much money was invested, and at what stage of development.

Imagine the morning scene: you open your closet, look at dozens of things — and again catch yourself thinking that you have nothing to wear. Even though in reality your wardrobe is full. It’s just that most people wear the same combinations for years. Ukrainian developers decided to transfer this task to artificial intelligence. They created the smart.outfit.ai application — a «pocket stylist» that analyzes the items in your wardrobe, suggests new outfits, and helps you combine clothes right on your smartphone. dev.ua talked to the startup’s founder, Dmytro Balyuk, and analyst Kateryna Kravtsova about how their AI works, why hundreds of gigabytes of clothing images are needed to train models, how much the product development cost, and why the team does not plan to attract venture capital.