she was a cofounder at monet, a picture/drawing based dating app

her cofounder learned react native and node.js from udemy

  • crazy thing is, wtv he built back then is still being used rn

based on claude monet - a french painter

  • color scheme was on his use of colors
  • based upon 6 colors
  • principle of ‘soft-to-hard’

did right

  • build an interactive community
  • reaching out to requests, even though did not want anything then

did wrong

  • built impulsively
  • mis-aligned goals
  • prev relationships as friends were tested

although going viral on tiktok was a great idea, it might have hurt them a bit in the process

  • numbers were not what they seemed
    • although people signed up for the waitlist, some of them might have due to the novelty and might not be loyal customers
    • the coder cofounder had to make the infrastucture be able to handle the load, and finish the product from what it was before

took a gap year to have fun make a side project for giggles, but that ended up taking off