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About Kevin Wu

Hi, I’m Kevin. I’m an engineering leader who loves science. I love creating software to make scientific discoveries. I enjoy taking products from zero to one.

Projects

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Vector LogosFigma , Github 

A Figma plugin that enables searching for and inserting vector versions of logos. 108th most popular plugin with 100k installs (as of July 2023).

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GraphTV (Complete)

Visualize per-episode ratings of any TV series. AV Club  touted that it “revolutionizes arguing about TV”. Also covered in Wired , Gizmodo , Flowing Data , Fast Company , Time , and others.

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GitphyChrome , Firefox , Github 

Search for and insert GIFs into Github without leaving the textarea. As colleagues have testified, useful for inserting a bit of fun into pull request reviews and issues.

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BreadySite 

Convert volumetric recipes into mass for maximal baking reproducibility.

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randomcolor-pyPyPI , Github 

A python package that generates attractive random colors. It sees about ~5.9k monthly downloads and has 256k total downloads (as of Aug 2022).

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The Days Sidebar (Complete) — Chrome , Github 

A minimal browser new tab page that embeds the day’s Sidebar.io  links into color inspiration from The Day’s Color . Helps me keep up with designs trends and news.

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FireflySite 

Find Haikus in the Bluesky firehose.
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What Would PG Do? (Complete)

A site where you could search Paul Graham’s essays. Got made fun of by the internet , but what’s life without a bit of levity? The first product I built that had traction. Covered by TechCrunch , Inc , and others.

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ReleaselogSite 

Releaselog pulls in all of a project’s releases onto a single page so you can use ctrl+f to your heart’s content without dealing with pagnation.

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Plasmyd (Acquired)

Collaborate over scientific papers. Think RapGenius for published papers. Read about our our launch on Techcrunch . We were acquired by Academia.edu .

Contact

Have an awesome idea you want to hack on with me? Is there an amazing new ramen shop that I need to know about? You can reach me at [email protected] or on Twitter .


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