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Selling an apartment to create your own product is a decision that is difficult to explain in an Excel spreadsheet or a presentation to investors. But that is exactly what Ukrainian IT professionals did when they decided to put all their savings into their own idea. In 2022, the war forced Orest and his fiancée Maria to leave Kharkiv. They first moved to Kyiv, then to Warsaw. To start a new life, the couple sold their apartment in Kharkiv and decided to invest all the proceeds not in new real estate, but in their own IT product. This is how Cibo was born, a food tracking app that the developers created primarily for themselves. Maria, a Java developer, was responsible for the technical part and design, and Orest, with ten years of experience in game development, was responsible for the idea and product development. Today, Cibo has 140 users, 15 paid subscriptions, and is growing exclusively organically so far. The team plans to launch its first paid marketing on September 1st. dev.ua talked to Orest about how to sell an apartment and put everything on their own product, why they decided to create another calorie tracker, and whether it is possible to build a global application, starting virtually from scratch in Warsaw.

Serhiy Kolozenko — Founder and CEO Megasite . Over the past 16 years of working in IT, he has seen more than once how the requirements for young professionals are changing and what knowledge they bring after graduation. In his column, Serhiy talks about what universities don't have time to give to future developers, what Megasite looks for when hiring junior specialists, and why a personal project can sometimes say more about a candidate than grades in a diploma.

Hello everyone. My name is Maksym, I am the Head of Platform and Application Security at SharksCode, a Ukrainian licensed IT company that develops high-tech software solutions and platforms for B2B according to Western standards and international principles. Now I’ll talk a little about information and cybersecurity. More precisely, about my vision of how to make your project or product more secure. It would be nice to start with a real case from my own experience, but there is a nuance here — all cases are different, as are the losses from them. Therefore, instead of one story, I will try to give advice that can be applied regardless of scale.