Skoop
Skoop was a B2C mobile web app that allowed users to return online orders or ship items from home. You could choose a time that was convenient for you, upload a shipping label, & add-on any packaging you needed. We signed several partnerships with premier property management firms & generated a pint-sized amount of revenue. Brian and I interviewed for YC W24, but were told that we couldn't beat DoorDash. At first, we were pissed. But, with time & intellectual honesty, we couldn't convince ourselves that we knew something fundamentally different that would allow us to win.
Here's a demo of the app.
DocuLink
My vision for DocuLink was a product that was half-DocuSign, half-DropBox. After interviewing for YC S22 with just an idea, I built the MVP by myself. I didn't know anything about sales, customer discovery, or go-to-market. I made the cliché engineer's mistake of building something & expecting people to come. Despite not getting the traction needed to keep going, I was proud of my attempt. It was the first large project I built end-to-end because I thought it was a worthwhile pursuit; not because someone told me to, but because I wanted to.
You can find the backend code here.
Samurai
I wanted to build tools that could help engineering teams cut their cloud bill. Instance Scheduler allowed you to dynamically start/stop your EC2 instance(s) based on a schedule. I was able to build this in a few weeks & onboard several GT OMSCS students.
Skoop was a B2C mobile web app that allowed users to return online orders or ship items from home. You could choose a time that was convenient for you, upload a shipping label, & add-on any packaging you needed. We signed several partnerships with premier property management firms & generated a pint-sized amount of revenue. Brian and I interviewed for YC W24, but were told that we couldn't beat DoorDash. At first, we were pissed. But, with time & intellectual honesty, we couldn't convince ourselves that we knew something fundamentally different that would allow us to win.
Here's a demo of the app.
DocuLink
My vision for DocuLink was a product that was half-DocuSign, half-DropBox. After interviewing for YC S22 with just an idea, I built the MVP by myself. I didn't know anything about sales, customer discovery, or go-to-market. I made the cliché engineer's mistake of building something & expecting people to come. Despite not getting the traction needed to keep going, I was proud of my attempt. It was the first large project I built end-to-end because I thought it was a worthwhile pursuit; not because someone told me to, but because I wanted to.
You can find the backend code here.
Samurai
I wanted to build tools that could help engineering teams cut their cloud bill. Instance Scheduler allowed you to dynamically start/stop your EC2 instance(s) based on a schedule. I was able to build this in a few weeks & onboard several GT OMSCS students.