Co-founder of xTiles · Building from Ukraine
I write about visual thinking, AI and how projects actually move forward.
- 2021
- founded xTiles
- #1
- Product of the Week on Product Hunt
- 0
- outside investors — bootstrapped
- 19
- people on the team, in Ukraine
NowOctober 2026
- Building xTiles around AI: a Daily Brief that has your day organized before you open it, and projects that Claude or ChatGPT can read and move forward with you.
- Looking for the fastest way for a new user to get to their first “I can do that too” moment.
- Writing here in English and Ukrainian — eight essays so far.
Selected writing
All essaysThe next-move method: how a project keeps its momentumWhy every project needs exactly one visible next step — and how that changes when you run the project together with an AI agent.The template is dead. Long live contextA template is an empty form of someone else’s life. When expertise is packaged as context for an LLM, an agent adapts it to your situation and runs the project with you.AI doesn’t cut people. It multiplies tasksThe promise of AI is fewer people. The reality is more tasks, a pricier stack, and a founder who assembles the state of the company by hand. Where to look for the real effect.
Ideas I keep coming back to
04
“Done” stops being an answer. The answer is what you wanted, what was done and what came of it.
Read the essayWhy I build xTiles
Planner, projects and canvas in one place — because life does not come in separate apps.
We are a team of 19, building from Ukraine for people who think visually.
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About
I co-founded xTiles and look after its strategy and product direction. I care about how people plan, decide and keep moving — and lately, about what changes when AI joins that work.
- 2024Startup Wise Guys accelerator, IT Arena finalist, TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.
- 2025xTiles reaches break-even — still without outside investors.
- 2026A team of 19, building from Ukraine. I start writing in public.
Say hello
Write if you think about tools, AI and how work gets done — or want to build something together.
kuchur.maxim@gmail.com