HQ

Currently, I’m working on HQ—the operating system for your daily life. Most software is built around a business process. HQ is built around the needs of a person. It incorporates the various and disparate facets of your life into a single web app that helps you keep track of everything you care about.

Intro2

Earlier, I built Intro2. Intro2 uses data science to connect startups to their best investors, at scale. It does this by comparing a startup category, traction, etc to what each investor is looking to fund. Intro2 makes the entire fundraising process a lot easier. Not only does it determine which investors are a good match, it also sends out intro emails, manages follow ups, and can even send intro emails to other investors if the first ones don’t respond. For founders, it’s like putting their fundraising on autopilot.

The Menu

Over the summer, following a trip up to Lake Tahoe, I had an experience at a restaurant that prompted an idea.

In the wake of COVID, many restaurants were trying to make their menus available via mobile phones. Mostly, they were doing this by printing a simple QR code from any one of numerous websites that will let you create such a thing, and then printing it on some signage in the restaurant. When a patron would scan this QR code, it would take them to a PDF copy of the restaurant’s menu. While this was sort of the right idea, it also wasn’t a great user experience. The user had to pinch and zoom to try and see an 8.5 x 11” paper represented on a mobile screen. It was hard to read, very confusing and just generally not great.

Rather than that bad UX, I thought a much better idea would be if you had a simple app where the restaurant could recreate their menu just for the mobile screen. But more than that, the menu would be interactive and have new capabilities that analog menus don’t have. For example, the restaurant would be able to show and hide menu items dynamically and patrons could filter food items based on dietary preferences.

Moovin

My previous company was Moovin—a furnishing service that provided magazine worthy designs on a rental basis.

Based in San Francisco, Moovin was pioneer in the newly reimagined rental furnishing space. Legacy competitors like Aaron’s and Rent-a-Center had missed the rise of urbanism where millenial and gen-X consumers were living in rental apartments throughout high-density urban cities such as San Francisco, New York, Seattle, etc. I built Moovin to cater to this market of consumer who has a taste for great design and frictionless user experiences where complexity is abstracted away. These consumers also prefer rental models for a lot of asset classes.

Moovin made it easy to get designs like these (below) in your place. We handled everything, and it was as easy as using our app and filling out some info about your property. The link below has a lot more info including more on the tech that powered all this.