ib. Say hello

Ilya Baklanov.

I like making things
people can actually use.

I work across product and engineering.
These are a few businesses I’ve built,
from the first idea to real customers.

TripNoted

Live

Your trips, organized
automatically from Gmail.

TripNoted turns booking emails into an itinerary that stays up to date as plans change. Flights, hotels, rides, and reservations come together in one timeline, with an assistant that answers questions about your actual trip.

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Hobby Market

2021-2022 · Closed

Live streaming meets
sports card ecommerce.

I brought live streaming, ecommerce, and sports card collecting together in one platform. Collectors could watch live unboxings, buy cards, and chat without leaving the stream. I built the product and ran the business.

We sold about $1 million worth of cards. But we couldn’t source inventory at non-reseller prices, and ultimately closed the business.

Hobby Market sports card catalog Live sports card stream with products to buy below it
Hobby Market · Early interface, 2021

Ditch Cash

2018-2020 · Closed

A first card.
A little independence.

A debit card and banking app for teenagers, with tools for parents. Several hundred customers used it to save, spend, and manage their money.

I built the whole product, including integrations with two banking systems.

We closed when the expected cost of acquiring customers, and our uncertainty about demand, didn’t justify raising the capital we’d need.