Building And Launching Mont

Hey, I am Maksim Ivanov. I am building Mont, a browser-based video editor for editable product demos, presentations, and onboarding videos.

This site is where I share the product development journey: what I am shipping, how I am finding users, and the engineering decisions behind the launch. The archive still includes my React, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Git articles, but the center of gravity is now building and launching useful products.

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A few posts that match the current direction: building Mont, finding users, and making product demos with a video workflow that stays editable after recording.

Build It And They Will Not Come: Finding Users For Your SaaS

May 16, 2026Programming

Building the product is not the hard finish line. It is the start of the next problem. If you are building an app or SaaS and quietly believing that users will appear after launch, you are probably setting yourself up fo

How Mont Combines Slides And Video On One Timeline

May 16, 2026Programming

Mont is built around a simple idea: slides and video should live on the same timeline. That makes it possible to create a product demo, tutorial, or presentation video without choosing between a slide editor and a video

How To Record A SaaS Demo Video From Screenshots

May 16, 2026Programming

A SaaS demo video does not always need a full screen recording. If the goal is to explain a workflow, show a polished product tour, or make a launch video quickly, screenshots can be a better starting point. You can prep

How To Make Your First Video In Mont

May 16, 2026Programming

The fastest way to understand Mont is to make one small video from start to export. This post is adapted from a YouTube tutorial about making your first video in Mont. It walks through a simple flow: create a project, ad

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Training A Tiny Model To Set Timers From Natural Language

May 17, 2026Programming

Natural language timers look like a small problem until you require exact output. I wanted to see whether a small browser friendly model could translate workout instructions into exact timer sequences. The interesting pa

How To Record A Presentation Voiceover From A PDF

May 16, 2026Programming

If your slides are in Google Slides, PowerPoint, Keynote, or another presentation tool, the easiest way to record a voiceover is often to export the deck as a PDF first. Once the slides are a PDF, you can import them int

How Mont Combines Slides And Video On One Timeline

May 16, 2026Programming

Architecture Literacy For Vibe Coders

May 16, 2026Programming

If you are building with AI coding tools, architecture is not optional. You can get to an MVP with prompts and persistence. Moving past the MVP requires enough architectural literacy to understand what the system is beco

Use Subagents To Keep Long AI Coding Sessions Clean

May 16, 2026Programming

Long AI coding conversations get worse as they grow. The model has more context to carry, summaries become lossy, and the main thread starts following instructions less precisely. One practical way to slow that decay is

How To Record Your Screen In Mont

May 16, 2026Programming

Mont can record your screen and camera into separate timeline layers. That matters because a screen recording is rarely perfect on the first take. If the camera and screen are separate layers, you can reposition them, cr