Zakharii Melnyk (Захарій Мельник)
Also known as Zakhar Melnyk · Ukrainian: Захарій Мельник (Захар Мельник)
Founder of AOA · Web Development Team Lead at SMART business
Kyiv, Ukraine
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 web products, iOS apps and developer tools.
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Why AOA
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.
Getting out makes us happier. AOA principles and culture
Work
AOA
Founder, since 2025
Built AOA from the first line of code to a working platform.
SMART business
Web Development Team Lead
Leads the web development team.
Projects
Part of AOA
AOA
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.
AOA for iOS
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.
In App Store review
aoa-sdk
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.
Other projects
whatsmyera.com
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.
wherethefuckismy.money
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.
Claude Commit
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.
StorageAnalytics
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.
In App Store review
Kyiv metro bot
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.
Open source
- Telegram Chat Export. Export Telegram chats in the browser via the official API, with instant search. Code
- GitHub Streaks. Minimalist macOS menu bar app that shows your GitHub contribution streak.
- claude-commit (CLI). Command-line version of Claude Commit, on npm. Code
- Reporting. Chrome extension that collects your daily commits from GitHub and Azure DevOps for reports.
Profiles
Is Zakhar Melnyk the same person as Zakharii Melnyk?
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.
See also: About AOA · What is AOA · Full page about me