Worked from an early product idea
As a co-founder, I helped move the venture from an idea toward a working product while balancing the ambiguity, prioritization, and limited resources that define early-stage work.
Illya BakurovCo-Founder · 2015 to 2017
I co-founded Eventlime while studying at Brock, gaining early experience shaping a product and navigating the practical decisions behind a new software venture.
Eventlime was an early-stage product venture built during graduate school. It gave me a direct view of how product definition, software delivery, and company-building decisions interact.
The experience became part of the foundation for later co-founder work at Story Star and Santa's AI Lab: stay close to the product, learn from real use, and treat distribution and execution as engineering concerns.
Selected work
As a co-founder, I helped move the venture from an idea toward a working product while balancing the ambiguity, prioritization, and limited resources that define early-stage work.
The role developed an early habit of connecting product choices with delivery, feedback, and what a small team could realistically support.
Eventlime preceded the broader consumer portfolio at Story Star and the deeper platform work at Santa's AI Lab, where those early lessons were applied at much greater scale.
Tools and systems
No reliable public product demo from this period remains online, so this page intentionally avoids reconstructing features that cannot be verified.
Public artifacts