# Hongbeom Park

**Building a tweet discovery engine** — Seoul, South Korea

> 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.

Career Archetype: **Launchpad Navigator** (HS-DG) — One of the first Launchpad Navigators on Saywise

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hongbeom-park-636a5b257

## Experience

### Founder, Ultrablue inc (2022-12 – present)
Seoul, South Korea · 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.

### Founder, Glowvy (2020-01 – 2020-09)
Da Nang City, Vietnam · Glowvy is a cosmetics WIKI app for Vietnamese. Built with Flutter, go, node, and firebase.

### Founder, Onda (2019-01 – 2019-12)
Seoul, Seoul, South Korea · 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

### Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, UCLA (2018-01 – 2018-01)
Dropped out in the first semester

### GED, High school dropout (2015-02 – present)

### Associate of Arts - AA in Philosophy, Green River College (2015-01 – 2016-01)

## Projects

### BlogPro (2024-01 – present)
Notion-powered blogging platform · 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. · https://blogpro.so

### Xbase (2023-01 – present)
Tweet & bookmark discovery engine · 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. · https://xbase.so

### Onda (2019-01 – 2019-12)
Real-time bus tracking iOS app · 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.

## Skills

Node.js, Go (Programming Language), Swift (Programming Language), Firebase, Cloud Firestore, Mobile Application Development, English, Fundraising, iOS Development, Flutter, Svelte, JavaScript, Web Development, Product Development, TypeScript, React, Next.js, SEO, Growth Marketing, Product Management

## AI Fluency

- **Claude** — My daily driver for coding, writing, and shipping product features. (https://claude.ai)
- **ChatGPT** — Used in parallel for research, writing, and brainstorming. (https://chatgpt.com)
- **Codex** — Agentic coding — I use it to ship features for BlogPro and Xbase. (https://developers.openai.com)

## Q&A

### [What are your biggest strengths?](https://saywise.com/q/16458e492490)

- 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. (https://saywise.com/s/7541bb586e24)

### [What AI tools do you use the most?](https://saywise.com/q/10c2b363a976)

- 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. (https://saywise.com/s/489ca0a7b744)

### [What kind of work energizes you?](https://saywise.com/q/1b01f09b2021)

- 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. (https://saywise.com/s/8f05c257ca69)

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