My Favorite Spots in Toronto

I’ve been wanting to create a map that I can share with friends when they ask for recommendations. As I was curating this list, I realized that the places I like aren’t necessarily the ones with the best food or drinks. I like small businesses, spots that have local regulars and where I had good memories with people. These places are personal to me and you can read more about each in the notes I added on the map https://sungatae.

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Freelancing

As part of my 11 projects in 11 months initiative, I worked on a freelance project for the past couple of weeks. I initially declined because freelancing defeated the purpose of this initiative, which was to work on my own projects, but I ended up taking the project for a couple of reasons: The client validated the idea. It was addressing a problem his team was having at work and he also found out other companies were experiencing this problem.

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11 Projects in 11 Months

My goal of the year is to build a new project every month. This is something I’ve been wanting to do for many years after watching Pieter Levels’ talk, but I didn’t dare to try it while working full-time. Now that AI has made it much easier to write code, I decided there’s no better time than now to start. I’m going to publish the projects here no matter how good or bad they turn out, so stay tuned!

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DJing

Ever since my college roommates took me to my first EDM show in sophomore year, I’ve been a fan of electronic music and have gone to many shows and festivals where I danced my ass off and made great memories with friends. I grew to admire DJs who play just the right song at the right time to keep the energy pumping and take the crowd on a journey.

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I made a mobile app. Meet Billy!

Let me introduce you to Billy! Billy is an app that helps you split bills with your friends. Once you upload a photo of your receipt, Billy scans it and gives you a simple UI to assign items to each person. At the end, it provides a clear breakdown for each person that you can easily share with your friends. The app is only available on the App Store for now, but I plan to release it for Android soon.

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