{"$schema":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json","basics":{"name":"Hongbeom Park","label":"Building a tweet discovery engine","image":"https://saywise-production-profilepicturestoragebucket-kbfooccc.s3.amazonaws.com/profile-pictures/7f19a0e0-7f7a-4fc1-b0e3-2bfc02c5c15a/linkedin-1791275799685.jpg","summary":"I'm a Seoul-based founder. I build tools that save people time: BlogPro turns a Notion database into a fast, SEO-ready blog on your own domain, and Xbase is a discovery engine for the tweets and bookmarks worth keeping. Before this I founded Glowvy (a Vietnam beauty platform) and Onda (a bus-tracking iOS app featured by the App Store), traded full time for two years, studied philosophy at UCLA, and served as a KATUSA. I love shipping end-to-end — design, code, and go-to-market — and I'm always up for talking business and investing.","location":{"city":"Seoul, South Korea"},"profiles":[{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"hongbeom-park-636a5b257","url":"https://linkedin.com/in/hongbeom-park-636a5b257"}]},"meta":{"canonical":"https://saywise.com/member2754","version":"v1.0.0","lastModified":"2026-10-06T08:53:29.121Z"},"x_saywise":{"handle":"member2754","pronouns":null,"availability":null,"oneLiner":"I'm a Seoul-based founder. I build tools that save people time: BlogPro turns a Notion database into a fast, SEO-ready blog on your own domain, and Xbase is a discovery engine for the tweets and bookmarks worth keeping. Before this I founded Glowvy (a Vietnam beauty platform) and Onda (a bus-tracking iOS app featured by the App Store), traded full time for two years, studied philosophy at UCLA, and served as a KATUSA. I love shipping end-to-end — design, code, and go-to-market — and I'm always up for talking business and investing.","profileUrl":"https://saywise.com/member2754","markdownUrl":"https://saywise.com/member2754/profile.md","pdfUrl":"https://saywise.com/member2754/resume.pdf","archetype":{"code":"HS-DG","name":"Launchpad Navigator","url":"https://saywise.com/sca/0a6aa44658df","rarity":"One of the first Launchpad Navigators on Saywise"},"aiStack":[{"name":"Claude","description":"My daily driver for coding, writing, and shipping product features.","url":"https://claude.ai","storyCount":0},{"name":"ChatGPT","description":"Used in parallel for research, writing, and brainstorming.","url":"https://chatgpt.com","storyCount":0},{"name":"Codex","description":"Agentic coding — I use it to ship features for BlogPro and Xbase.","url":"https://developers.openai.com","storyCount":0}],"qa":[{"question":"What are your biggest strengths?","url":"https://saywise.com/q/16458e492490","answers":[{"title":"Post","url":"https://saywise.com/s/7541bb586e24","text":"Turning an idea into a shipped product, fast. I've built and launched several products end-to-end — design, code, and go-to-market — so I'm comfortable owning the whole thing. I'm good at finding leverage: SEO, direct-response copy, and simple distribution that compounds. And I stay persistent through pivots and shutdowns — I don't wait for perfect conditions to ship."}]},{"question":"What AI tools do you use the most?","url":"https://saywise.com/q/10c2b363a976","answers":[{"title":"Post","url":"https://saywise.com/s/489ca0a7b744","text":"I build with Claude and Claude Code every day, and run ChatGPT and Codex in parallel for research, writing, and coding. AI is central to how I ship now — from drafting and design to writing and shipping product features."}]},{"question":"What kind of work energizes you?","url":"https://saywise.com/q/1b01f09b2021","answers":[{"title":"Post","url":"https://saywise.com/s/8f05c257ca69","text":"Early, zero-to-one work where I own the product and see the impact directly. I'm energized by small teams with high standards, fast feedback loops, and real users — and by problems where shipping something today beats planning something perfect."}]}]},"work":[{"name":"Ultrablue inc","position":"Founder","location":"Seoul, South Korea","url":"https://xbase.so","startDate":"2022-12-01","summary":"Founder of Ultrablue, where I build BlogPro (the easiest way to blog with Notion) and Xbase (a tweet discovery engine). I ship and market the products end-to-end — product, design, engineering, and go-to-market."},{"name":"Glowvy","position":"Founder","location":"Da Nang City, Vietnam","startDate":"2020-01-01","endDate":"2020-09-01","summary":"Glowvy is a cosmetics WIKI app for Vietnamese. Built with Flutter, go, node, and firebase."},{"name":"Onda","position":"Founder","location":"Seoul, Seoul, South Korea","url":"https://drinkonda.com","startDate":"2019-01-01","endDate":"2019-12-01","summary":"The app helps people get on the bus without having to wait at the bus station. The app got featured by the Korean app store multiple times."}],"education":[{"institution":"UCLA","studyType":"Bachelor's degree in Philosophy","startDate":"2018-01-01","endDate":"2018-01-01"},{"institution":"High school dropout","studyType":"GED","startDate":"2015-02-01"},{"institution":"Green River College","studyType":"Associate of Arts - AA in Philosophy","startDate":"2015-01-01","endDate":"2016-01-01"}],"projects":[{"name":"BlogPro","description":"The easiest blog with Notion. Turn a Notion database into a fast, SEO-optimized blog on your own domain — with email capture, newsletter digests, member-only posts, and analytics. No code required.","url":"https://blogpro.so","startDate":"2024-01-01"},{"name":"Xbase","description":"A discovery engine for X (Twitter) — find, save, and organize the tweets and bookmarks worth keeping, and surface the ideas that matter. Backed by a seed round from Primer.","url":"https://xbase.so","startDate":"2023-01-01"},{"name":"Onda","description":"A Korean real-time bus tracking iOS app that lets people get on the bus without waiting at the stop. Featured by the App Store multiple times.","startDate":"2019-01-01","endDate":"2019-12-01"}],"skills":[{"name":"Node.js"},{"name":"Go (Programming Language)"},{"name":"Swift (Programming Language)"},{"name":"Firebase"},{"name":"Cloud Firestore"},{"name":"Mobile Application Development"},{"name":"English"},{"name":"Fundraising"},{"name":"iOS Development"},{"name":"Flutter"},{"name":"Svelte"},{"name":"JavaScript"},{"name":"Web Development"},{"name":"Product Development"},{"name":"TypeScript"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"Next.js"},{"name":"SEO"},{"name":"Growth Marketing"},{"name":"Product Management"}]}