Ihor Sokolov

I take a product from idea to production: product and UX, design, frontend, backend, real-time, AI features and deployment. I can build an MVP alone or lead a team as CTO.

My interest is simple: a product that earns. Then you come back, and we grow together.

I started at sixteen, on push-button phones. I unpacked mobile games, swapped the graphics and packed them back: same mechanics, my pictures. Then came custom firmware for a Motorola E1.

My first paid project came from an online game community that needed a new website. I offered the design, then figured out HTML and CSS to build it as well. It worked, the client paid, and I kept going.

For several years I was a designer: sites for game communities, then interfaces for small and medium businesses. About 500 layouts in total. That is where I learned how people move through a page and how many clicks a goal can afford.

A design stays a picture until someone makes it work. I didn't want to depend on someone else for that, so around 2010 I learned PHP and MySQL and became a full-stack developer. Later I moved the whole stack to JavaScript: Node.js on the server, Vue and React in the browser.

I ran multiplayer game servers for online communities, with about 3,500 players online at the same time. It is still what I like to build most: many people, one shared state, no lag.

In 2015 I opened my own web studio, a team of nine. We built online stores for gaming communities and for YouTube creators with audiences of millions: automated delivery of in-game items through Steam bots and admin panels for the owners.

That is where I learned the business side: estimates, milestone payments, deadlines, launch-day traffic spikes and DDoS attacks, and the infrastructure to survive them. Later the studio moved fully remote, and I went on as an independent developer.

• Mafstat — CEO. A statistics platform for the sports mafia community. The product worked; the niche was too small. Lesson: check the market before the code.
• Imit, 2023 — CTO. A chatbot that reproduced how a specific person wrote, based on their message history. Built on GPT in early 2023.
• OMO Kids, now — CTO. An iOS app for parents and children: screen time unlocks after the child solves quizzes and tasks. Live on the App Store.

Since 2023 I build everything with AI agents: first Cursor and Windsurf, now Claude Code and Codex. Dozens of hackathons and dozens of repositories on GitHub. A few of the experiments:

• AI presenter — an agent that presents a product by voice, switches slides and changes the page as it talks.
• Bones — rig and animate 2D characters in the browser, then export them to any project as JSON plus SVG or PNG.
• YapSlap — an iOS fighting game you control with your face. Two players connect over WebRTC and fight with their expressions.
• Shardy — browser tabs as nodes of a decentralized compute network. An experiment that showed where the limit is: the network between nodes is too slow to beat a single machine.
• vibecatter — browser party games where every phone is a controller, a real-time WebSocket server, my own type family Kingoist and a film built in code with Remotion and an AI voice.

I live in Barcelona and work remotely with clients worldwide. Ukrainian and Russian are my native languages. In English I work in writing; for calls we can use an interpreter.

Vibe coder plus cat. "Cat" is an old nickname, and the internet has always been for cats.

There is also a plan behind it. AI lets everyone ship apps, so the market fills up with products faster than with buyers. I'd rather build a name and an audience first, and products for that audience next.