You shipped it. Will people actually use it?
Notes from building consumer products: what makes people use them, and what I learn along the way.
Questions I keep coming back to
- What makes an app part of an ordinary day?
- Why do people stop opening an app they used to like?
- How do you find your first users when your whole market is one campus?
- Why do travel apps go quiet between trips?
Writing
Recent writing
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Things I have built
Different users, the same question: will they come back?
- 01
UOSLIFE
The University of Seoul student app (timetable, notices, campus services).
Backend: real-time chat for the campus matching service, club recommendations, a game scoreboard API - 02
UosAsk
A notice chatbot for University of Seoul students. It ran with real users and was later folded into UOSLIFE.
Project lead, backend and infrastructure - 03
Mili-Stock
Lets soldiers check PX stock and reserve items for pickup. Pitched to the Armed Forces Welfare Agency, which reviewed it but did not adopt it.
PM and backend, from interviews to the proposal - 04
DocentPro
A travel app that turns places from short videos into a map and a trip.
Engineer: place extraction, hotel pricing and booking
Say hi
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Tell me about an app you love or gave up on, something that annoyed you lately, or where you think I got it wrong. I read every note, and some of them turn into posts.