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If your business isn’t ranking on Google Maps, you’re not alone. Thousands of businesses face the same problem every day. But here’s the truth: getting to the top isn’t as difficult as it seems, as most of the top positions are occupied by businesses that are easy to bypass.

A team of Ukrainian schoolchildren led by a 15-year-old CEO has created an augmented reality mobile application called Firselp, which teaches users how to provide first aid in critical situations. Project leader Dmytro Palamarchuk, who just finished 9th grade, told dev.ua about the service, which aims to make basic first aid knowledge accessible, understandable, and effective even during times of stress.

Despite all the rich epithets about self-development, vocation, team atmosphere, and «kindred spirit,» the main motivator in any job remains salary. Its timely and full payment is the «base.» And if this condition is violated, not everyone will want to continue working with such an employer. But what to do when salary debts accumulate, but it seems like no one is thinking of paying them? Everyone has the right in this situation to go to court, but this involves a lot of time, expenses (after all, it is difficult to cope on your own without a lawyer) and nerves, so not everyone goes this route.

How AI helped me find my dream job: the real experience of a top manager from Silicon Valley.

A computer science teacher at the capital’s Lyceum No. 53, a developer of games and educational programs, Serhiy Khramov, created the game Ukrainians: Our battle. More than 2,000 players are already awaiting its release. We tell you the details of the project.

In early June, the startup Neomi, which develops artificial intelligence that automatically buys products for the user, received its first commercial partnership — it began helping customers of the Varus supermarket chain with their purchases. dev.ua spoke with Neomi CEO and founder Dmytro Lilik, who recently presented the startup at Viva Technology in Paris, and learned more about the ambitions to create a food AI assistant for millions of people.

In recent days, the scandalous story of Nazariy Gusakov, a boy with a rare disease called SMA (spinal muscular atrophy), for whom Ukrainians have been collecting donations on a massive scale both through social networks and the media, as well as with the assistance of many top bloggers, politicians, show business representatives, and other public figures, has not subsided. Journalists found out that the funds that Nazariy received as a result of the meetings allegedly significantly exceeded the needs for his treatment, not to mention the fact that part of the medications were provided by the Lviv City Council.

Threads users have drawn attention to the possible use of artificial intelligence technologies in the translation of the book «Encyclopedia of Fairies» by Vivat Publishing House. The company’s technical support denies the use of AI, and notes that the editor’s comment was mistakenly published.

A successful team is an environment where people want to stay, grow, and invest. Today’s IT market is not only a competition for talent, but also a battle to retain it. Companies spend thousands of dollars on hiring each new specialist, and if they leave after 6–9 months, that investment is lost and the team can feel the drain of experience, trust, and rhythm.

Marina Sherstyuk is a former UI designer with experience in large, engineering, and international projects. After five years in IT, the specialist decided to leave the field and start her own business - teaching yoga. dev.ua talked to Marina about her decision to change everything and what challenges awaited her on the path to a happier life.

Artificial intelligence is already reshaping the job market. And while some jobs will disappear, new ones will certainly emerge. Here is a list of new jobs that AI will help create, based on the article «AI Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You» in The New York Times.

According to the Ministry of Defense, the area potentially contaminated with explosives is 139,000 km² — larger than the size of Greece. The speed of cleaning directly depends on the availability of equipment, and until recently it was not produced in Ukraine. In a conversation with dev.ua, the director of XTI Engineering Vadym Anosov and the managing director of the machine-building group Igor Tkachuk tell how, after the deoccupation of the Kharkiv region, they assembled the first prototype of a deminer in four months, how the Ukrainian machine "GART 5100" differs from foreign analogues, how testing with explosions is carried out, what has changed in cooperation with the state, and what the demining market looks like in Ukraine and the world.

ML engineers are people who negotiate every day with raw data, broken pipelines, and a reality that stubbornly refuses to invest in metrics. And the most painful thing about all this is that when the model finally works, no one understands how much effort, crutches, and workarounds went into it. That’s why it’s worth watching the recording of the case studies from the conference — because in AI, as in life, it’s better to learn from someone else’s mistakes than to make your own.

How Ukrainian specialists synthesize development and culture, gaining international recognition

The state's initiative to create its own national language model (LLM) has sparked lively discussion among the Ukrainian IT community. IT professionals share different opinions, weighing the potential benefits and possible risks of such a project.

Recently, the media reported that Telegram, one of the most popular messengers among Ukrainians, is connected to the Russian FSB. However, the management of the messenger’s developer denies this information. Meanwhile, many Ukrainian companies use Telegram for internal communication. According to a survey conducted by dev.ua, 71,4% of respondents use dev.ua to resolve work issues. And only 14,3% prohibit the use of Durov’s messenger at the level of corporate rules. dev.ua asked what messengers Ukrainian IT companies use to discuss work issues. Of those companies that responded, none use Telegram, according to the answers.

Tonight and this morning, Ukrainian air defense hit 428 air targets, of which 166 were lost to location. A significant part of these successes was provided by electronic warfare. These are systems that intercept, jam and disorient enemy drones and aircraft. Electronic warfare is becoming an integral part of modern warfare, and its use is already significantly changing the situation on the front. In this material, we have collected 10 top Ukrainian electronic warfare developments over the past few years, which are actively used in the defense of the country, demonstrating the innovations and power of our defense industry.

Sometimes, even before the first question, you feel like you have a strong candidate in front of you. Experience, understanding, logic — everything is in place. But there seem to be doubts between the words. The voice trembles, phrases begin with «I probably can’t» or «I was just helping out there» (although in reality the candidate was managing the project).

The Ukrainian service Liki24.com is well known to consumers as a platform for delivering medicines. At the same time, the company is actively developing the B2B direction, cooperating with pharmaceutical manufacturers, who get the opportunity to promote their brands on commercial terms in the Ukrainian market. After abandoning the previous service, the team worked without a CRM for some time, keeping track of customers manually. But as the number of deals and tasks grew, it became clear that returning to a system solution was necessary for effective scaling. In this interview, Oleksandr Duschak (Head of Brand promotion & Partner success department), Nadiya Namesnik (Partner Growth manager) and Andriy Kabachenko (Business Development Manager) tell us how they chose CRM, implemented it, and what processes they managed to simplify. The company chose the Ukrainian NetHunt CRM .

In May 2021, while considering launching a new media project, a small team of us sat in a coworking space in the center of the capital and, peering into the panoramic window on the 29th floor, discussed prospects. «Well, if the war starts, everything will be clearly visible from here,» the co-founder of dev.ua said, allegedly jokingly. On the eve of the war itself, we moved to another office. And already there, realizing that something was definitely going to happen, everyone agreed that if there was to be a war, it would be mostly digital — a cyberwar of technology. And within a few days, we all realized how wrong we were.

DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer Konstantin Khomko asked the community about a potential exit from the IT industry and an alternative to his current job. His LinkedIn post garnered over 100 comments. So what do IT professionals dream of?

Roman Tomera is a crypto blogger who has been in the industry since 2017. He is known for, as he himself claims, selling his own apartment in Kyiv for over $100,000 to invest in crypto. Roman didn’t stop there and last year sold his BMW to invest in cryptocurrency again.

A 16-year-old schoolgirl, interested in programming and planning to develop in the IT field, asked the IT experts at Threads which path she should choose: courses or a university with a classical academic education. What do experienced IT experts advise?

After the full-scale invasion began, a team of Ukrainian volunteer engineers faced a new challenge: the massive use of enemy drones on the battlefield. To counter this threat, in 2022, enthusiasts began developing the first anti-drone rifles on the most common frequencies (2.4 GHz, 5.8 GHz, and 900 MHz). However, over time, the enemy began to use non-standard frequencies, and to cover new ranges, modules had to be added, which made the rifles bulky and reduced their battery life. It became obvious: a qualitatively new solution with a greater range and more flexible functionality was needed.

Junior Project Manager Valeria Zolotareva spoke on LinkedIn about an unscrupulous employer who did not pay the team for the work done. In the comments, IT professionals write that this is not the first time — such «partings» with teams seem like a well-established pattern. We tell you the details.

In the more than three years since the large-scale invasion, the Ukrainian Internet has undergone perhaps the greatest test in its entire and world history. We are used to having access to the Internet always and everywhere, without thinking about where it comes from on our smartphone, but today most users already understand the difference in speed, stability and quality between wired, mobile and satellite types of access.

Whether it’s a new startup or a long-term project, internal or outsourced, in any IT project, the team starts with an estimate — it assesses the necessary resources, costs and deadlines. This can be done by various specialists: business analysts, sales managers, product and project managers, as well as direct task performers — developers, designers, testers, DevOps, etc.

What negatives monopolization of any sphere brings — it is unnecessary to explain, it is obvious even to people without a specialized economic education. Of course, many nuances depend on the specific domain, but basically — the risks are the same. After talking to a number of experts and participants in the Ukrainian govtech market — both publicly and off rec — the dev.ua journalist heard a number of stories about how Ukrainian state bodies found themselves in a monopoly dependence on those companies that supply them with software, as well as develop and maintain specialized IT systems.

A user with the nickname maximalist14 asked the community: «Is a programmer as a profession everything? Is it still synonymous with success?» Dozens of comments shine a light on the not-so-inspiring mood of IT professionals.

Just as the bureaucratic state was a product of the industrial revolution, today the agent state of the AI ​​era is being born.