Projects
Things I’ve built and helped build.
Heptabase2020–nowSoftware · Company
Heptabase is an intelligent, visual knowledge base built for students, researchers, and lifelong learners.
- My role: As co-founder and CEO, I build the product, talk to users, set goals, and lead the team.
Vision: To create a world where anyone can effectively establish a deep understanding of anything.
High Quality Resources Collection2019Community Resource
A curated collection of learning resources, built from community recommendations to help people spend less time searching.
- My role: Launched the submission process, reviewed and organized 900+ submissions, and published the collection. It was an early experiment in how to organize information on the web.
- Outcome: Reached 500+ users and 40+ weekly active users, with new submissions continuing without further promotion.
Beact2017–18Creative Software
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A browser-based audiovisual instrument that lets people create beats and visuals with a drum machine and keyboard, inspired by Patatap.
- My role: Worked with Vibert Thio and Joey Huang. Built the main drum machine and keyboard interactions, along with backend features for saving, sequencing, and recording patterns and keyboard activity.
- Outcome: Received 5.4k+ pageviews, including 2.3k+ unique pageviews, in its first six months.
NTUAA.io2017–18Browser Game
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A multiplayer browser game I built from scratch to promote the 2018 NTU Tainan Students’ Night (南友之夜).
- My role: Designed the application architecture and server-side physics engine, used Pixi.js for graphics, and deployed the game on Google Cloud.
- Outcome: More than 600 players joined during the three days I hosted it.
NTUAA Video Marketing2017–18Marketing · Video Production
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A video marketing project to promote the 2018 NTU Tainan Students’ Night (南友之夜) and encourage sharing through a rap video, a giveaway video, and a teaser.
- My role: Created all three videos for the event’s marketing campaign.
- Outcome: Published the three videos on the event’s Facebook page.
Web Full Stack Boilerplate2017Developer Tool
A reusable starting point for building full-stack web applications with React and Node.js.
- My role: Set up the frontend and backend, database and real-time communication support, and development tools such as hot reloading.
- Outcome: Used it to build several small prototypes. The project is no longer maintained.
Lectures on Special & General Relativity2017Educational Writing · Teaching
Lectures and accompanying notes that introduce special and general relativity through intuition.
- My role: Wrote the notes and taught two hours of special relativity and seven hours of general relativity at the 2017 BioPhyChemEarth.
- Outcome: Several students described it as the best physics lecture they had attended.
Handouts on Calculus2016–17Educational Writing
Calculus notes for undergraduate mathematics students, based on Introduction to Calculus and Analysis by Richard Courant and Fritz John.
- My role: Wrote the notes to help students work through the subject in depth.
- Outcome: Used by undergraduate students at National Taiwan University to learn calculus.
Rotations & Geometric Loci2012–14Math Science Fair · National 1st · International 3rd
A mathematics research project inspired by a pirate treasure puzzle: when do repeated rotations produce a fixed point, and what paths do weighted averages of moving points trace?
- My role: Co-authored the research, exploring how rotation centers, angles, and scaling factors affect fixed points and trajectories, then extending the study to three dimensions.
- Outcome: Identified conditions for fixed points and patterns ranging from circles and ellipses to planet-like and gear-like curves. Won first prize at the 2012 National Primary and High School Science Fair, followed by third prize in Mathematics at the 2014 Taiwan International Science Fair.