Yuefan Shang

Innovation Engineer

Tech ideas, some shipped. Language nerd, polyglot in progress. Instrument enthusiast building a one-person band.

Right now

Learning Spanish & Japanese

Picking up Violin

Building a language shadowing app

Idea dump→

Piano Practice as Flashcards

seed

Imagine Anki, or Duolingo, but with your sheet music that tracks your progress. You don't need to spend time planning your session, just show up and launch the app - it knows what you should practice to get better.

10 languages. 10 instruments.→

6/10Languages

🇨🇳 Mandarin🇺🇸 English🇪🇸 Spanish🇩🇪 German🇫🇷 French🇯🇵 Japanese???

4/10Instruments

🎷 Saxophone🎸 Guitar🎹 Piano🎻 Violin????

Things I've made→

open_source

Markdown UI

Lightweight extension that turns Markdown into interactive UI elements — buttons, sliders, dropdowns — rendered at runtime. Reached #4 on HackerNews.

startup

Bloop

AI teammate for Slack that turns chat conversations into trackable tasks with timely reminders. Currently in closed beta.

open_source

takemeto

Command-line tool for setting up OpenVPN-based VPN infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code.