Also known as Zakhar Melnyk · Ukrainian: Захарій Мельник (Захар Мельник)
Founder of AOA · Web Development Team Lead at SMART business · Kyiv, Ukraine
Zakharii Melnyk (also Zakhar Melnyk; Ukrainian: Захарій Мельник) is a Ukrainian full-stack engineer from Kyiv. Founder of AOA, on a mission to get people out more, and Web Development Team Lead at SMART business.
Builds products end to end: product design, web front end, back end, infrastructure and native iOS apps. Other projects include whatsmyera.com, which shows what happened during your lifetime, wherethefuckismy.money, a real purchasing power calculator for Ukraine, and Claude Commit, a VS Code extension with more than 4,000 installs.
We're on a mission to get people out more
Life gets better when we leave home, find ourselves among people and live something together. People rarely lack the wish to go somewhere; they lack a reason. AOA creates those reasons: find a place, see an event, know who is already nearby, come, meet someone, stay a little longer than planned.
Before every new feature we ask one question: will this help a person leave home, be among people or make real contact easier? If not, we probably don't need it.
AOA builds a culture around support for people + personal responsibility + strong execution + absolute focus on the user.
Getting out of the house is good for you.
Being among people matters.
Meeting in person is worth it.
Technology should help this happen more often.
Getting out makes us happier. aoa.com.ua
On a mission to get people out more
Ukrainian platform on a mission to get people out more. AOA gives people reasons to leave home and meet in person: find a place, see an event, know who is already nearby, come and meet. It is built around the moment two people actually meet, not around time spent in the app.
What happened during your lifetime
Enter your birth year and see your generation, the eras of your childhood and hundreds of facts about what happened during your life, tied to Ukrainian realities. Free, no sign-up, runs in the browser.
Your salary grew. So where is the money?
Real purchasing power calculator for incomes in Ukraine, 2010 to 2026: compares income between years adjusted for inflation, exchange rate and actual prices of housing, food, fuel and tech.
Commit messages in one click
VS Code extension that generates git commit messages with Claude, using the Claude CLI you already have or the API. Conventional commits, custom templates, several languages. Open source, MIT.
Official SDK for the AOA public API
Python SDK (and TypeScript as @aoa-ua/sdk) for the AOA public API: venues, table bookings, events, tickets, checkout and webhooks.
Move big videos to your Mac
iPhone app with a free Mac companion: finds the photos and videos that take the most space, copies them to your Mac over a cable with SHA-256 verification, then frees up space. No account, no cloud.
AOA in your pocket, with an App Clip for NFC taps
Native iOS app for AOA with an App Clip that opens a venue room from an NFC tap.
Never miss the last train
Telegram bot for the Kyiv metro: travel time between stations and when to leave to catch the last train, with reminders.
Zakharii Melnyk (Захарій Мельник) is a Ukrainian full-stack engineer from Kyiv, founder of AOA and Web Development Team Lead at SMART business.
Yes. Zakhar is the short form of the name Zakharii. Zakhar Melnyk, Zakharii Melnyk and Захарій Мельник (Захар Мельник) are the same person: the founder of AOA from Kyiv.
Ukrainian platform on a mission to get people out more. AOA gives people reasons to leave home and meet in person: find a place, see an event, know who is already nearby, come and meet. It is built around the moment two people actually meet, not around time spent in the app. Website: aoa.com.ua.
We're on a mission to get people out more. Getting out makes us happier.