Currently I am working at Monet as one of the two software engineers on the team. Monet was founded in the fall of 2020 by a few of my friends on gap semester because of COVID, received an $500,000 pre-seed investment over my winter break, and then I came aboard as the first hire. Monet itself is a social discovery / dating app where you can draw for other people to initiate a conversation. I help out with developing new features for the app, security testing, responding to bug reports, as well as taking on the majority of our web-based offshoots. Our team is comprised of five college students from UCSB, Penn, Cornell and Tufts and I love working with all of them. Monet also doubled as my senior capstone project as you can see from the poster below.
A print ad campaign for Monet to wheatpaste in urban areas. I think you can see where the inspiration came from. We liked this idea too because it gave us another way to feature the artists on the platform who are always impressing us.
Monet Dating doubled as my senior capstone which is one of the requirements for Tufts Engineering. This is the poster from my stand-up presentation.
Monet on the App Store.
My profile on Monet.
Some of my drawings on Monet.
Homepage makes use of Google Quickdraw as an API to classify doodles by site visitors. Certain doodles unlock certain parts of the site. This is possible by having a big lookup table where certain drawings are associated with certain links (ie. a drawing classified "Bird" turns into a link to our Twitter). This data structure is hosted in Sanity so anyone in our team can log in to change it as needed.
The Post-It style interface fits the theme of doodling and makes it easy to fit a lot of information in the same panel while you draw.
Early test drawings for a proof-of-concept of the site.
My monet.world gallery. Every user on the app has the option to publish a gallery with a curated selection of drawings they've made. This is built with Next.js and we have an ongoing gallery of the day featured on the main website. Some of the galleries are really incredible.
Heart mash was a specialty site for a Valentine’s themed event where users of the app could submit a drawing of their ‘Perfect Heart’ using the nearly 6,000 submissions received. While users vote, the site makes use of an Elo-ranking algorithm to return a realtime leaderboard of the most popular drawings.
Store for some of our specialty items. Proceeds go to funding our Monet mini creative scholarships. The site design and development was done by me and uses Next.js, Apollo, and GraphQL to communicate with our Shopify store.
Framed Perfect Heart poster and a screenshot of me placing the first order on the Shopify site I had just published.
Some slides from an internal presentation of mine pitching new feature ideas.
