Vladislav Kuksenko

Vladislav Kuksenko

Co-founder building Whimscope

About

Co-founder of Whimscope, a lifestyle app for tiny real-life adventures. I’ve spent 15 years building digital products across gaming, mobile apps, AR/VR, and SaaS. With Whimscope, I’m focused on creating a simple product that helps people make their everyday life feel a little more alive.

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Maker History

  • Whimscope
    WhimscopeApp for micro-adventure ideas for everyday life
    Aug 2026
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    Joined Product HuntJune 15th, 2026

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We launched on a Sunday on purpose. Here's what that actually got us

Whimscope went live on the App Store and Google Play five days before we posted here. We picked Sunday, 12:01 AM PDT deliberately lowest competition day of the week, and we didn't want to be the lifestyle app sitting next to four AI agents and a productivity tool. That part worked as expected.

We weren't featured. We didn't really expect to be, though there's always a small part of you that hopes. But we needed to run it anyway, and here's why that mattered more than the featuring.

Whimscope App - Micro-adventure ideas for your everyday life

Whimscope gives you simple micro-adventure ideas for everyday life — matched to your time, energy, mood and budget. Look through the lens for an idea, save it, plan it solo or with friends, and keep the moment in your Journal once it's done. Most apps in this space help you organise what you already planned. Whimscope helps you want something in the first place. It's not a habit tracker and it won't nag you. Now out of beta, on the App Store and Google Play.

We won Product of the Day! Thanks

Hey everyone,

We won Product of the Day. thank you so much to everyone who supported, upvoted, commented, tested Goldfish, and gave us feedback

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