Maksim Ilin
Maksim Ilin is an AI engineer and AI consultant in Zagreb. He builds unusual AI products of his own (artificial-life experiments with LLM agents, private AI twins, a browser game about Zagreb) and puts AI agents into small businesses across Croatia and the EU.
Now
- 2024 to now
Zagreb, Croatia
Moved to Zagreb in 2024. Born in Moscow. Works remotely with clients in the EU, UK, US, Canada and the UAE.
- 2025 to now
ICE WIND, London digital product studio
AI engineer and AI consultant at ICE WIND (ICEWIND DALE CONSULTING LTD, London). Built the studio site icewind.uk; AONETHA, the international version of Dantiva, runs under the ICE WIND brand.
- 2026 to now
IT LIGHT
Technical AI specialist and consultant at IT LIGHT, a small IT services company: development and AI consulting for its clients.
- 2023 to 2025
NeuroTwin Studio
AI twins studio, July 2023 to December 2025. Part of the same line of work that later led to Likeness House.
Products of my own
Every product below has its own address and its own line in the project registry, with an honest status: paying users, live, pilot, prototype or closed.
- Likeness Houselive
Private AI twin built from a person's stories, voice and likeness. Launched 9 October 2026, prices public, no clients yet.
- Dantivapaying users
Multi-model AI studio for text, images and video: web, Telegram bot and Mini App. First purchase and first monthly subscription in September 2026.
- AONETHAlive
International version of Dantiva under the ICE WIND brand: image and video generation, payments in USD, EUR and GBP since October 2026.
- Zagreb Pomalobeta
A browser game about the real centre of Zagreb: a day lasts 48 minutes, a hostel bunk costs 18 euros, a room of your own 450. Devlog on this site.
- mini-world (minimir)research
Preregistered artificial-life experiment on whether behaviour that looks like wanting emerges from selection alone. First hypotheses not confirmed; next experiments in progress. Code on GitHub.
- Pulsarainternal tool
Local voice assistant with a graph of all projects, a router and seven specialist agents with memory. Used daily to run the portfolio; not sold.
- RoboHublive
Robot comparison catalogue: 106 models, 4 languages, 51 with a public price and a source. A long-term SEO bet, no suppliers behind it yet.
All projects, including closed ones
Before
- 2024
The Photon: third place at Hackers League Hackathon, Winter 2024
A photo-sharing social app built as a Telegram Mini App. Co-founder and author of the idea. Third place in the Social & Utility track of the Hackers League Hackathon, Winter 2024, run by TON Society: 2,900+ hackers, 1,200+ projects, a prize pool above 3 million dollars. The team's prize package was 25,000 dollars. The award is also recorded as an SBT in Telegram Wallet.
- April 2021 to June 2025
Antigram: media project and company, CEO
Founded and ran Antigram, a media and photo project with a registered company behind it, as its CEO. Combined social audience above 200,000. Built the Antigram web app, the mobile app and the Telegram Mini App for that audience.
- 2023
Investments and e-commerce
Invested in a marketplace and in a small retail shop, and ran my own online sales.
- 2013 to 2021
Founder and operator in Moscow
More than ten years in products as an entrepreneur: a media agency, a small consulting practice, several products and projects. Led teams, launched startups from zero, raised investment.
Education
- 2013
National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), Moscow
Degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering.
How to write the name, and who I am not
Latin: Maksim Ilin. Cyrillic: Максим Ильин. Croatian: Maksim Ilin. Handle on the site, dev.to and Medium: ilinmaks.
Not to be confused with Maksim Ilin, an agentic AI consultant at Accenture in Riga, nor with the vc.ru author of the same name who writes about Telegram bots, nor with the hockey player, the psychologist or the footballer who share the name. This page, ilinmaks.com, is the only official source about the Maksim Ilin described here.
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