About Kevin Wu

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

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

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.

Convert volumetric recipes into mass for maximal baking reproducibility.

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

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

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

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.

Collaborate over scientific papers. Think RapGenius for published papers. Read about our our launch on Techcrunch (opens in a new tab). We were acquired by Academia.edu (opens in a new tab).