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
Sidaesaeng (시대생)
An app for students at the University of Seoul.
Built it - 02
Online pre-order service for soldiers
A site where service members in the Korean military can order ahead.
From planning to partner meetings - 03
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
I'd love to hear from you.
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.