Fang-Pen Lin

Hi there 👋, My name is Fang-Pen Lin, best known as the creator of Avataaars Generator (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/avataaars-generator) in this community. I've been searching for a perfect note-taking app for my use case for a long time. I found myself sending myself messages or emails very often to write the note down or keep a file around quickly. But later, I realized it wasn't easy to...

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Hi, Maker of LIVELYBG here 👋 Most of us are now connected via video conferencing apps more than ever. I like the idea of video virtual background feature provided by zoom and other video conferencing apps. I found myself interested in making cool virtual background videos recently, and I see it as a new way for self-expression. I shared some of the virtual background with my friends, and...

Hi there, my name is Fang-Pen, I started teaching myself programming since I was 12 years old by building a hobby MMORPG. Since then, I’ve been coding and making different things continuously for 20 years almost every single day. In these years, I’ve learned things like how do you teach yourself a new language, a new framework. How do you decide what to learn? How do you find your motivation...

Sorry for long waiting, today, I am glad to announce Zero Inbox 2.0 is here! 🎉🎊👏 For people never heard of Zero Inbox, it's an iPhone email app I build for zeroing inboxes. I created a new kind of swipe action UI, it allows you to choose different actions via single swipe. Such as: - Right-Up-Right - Push to Todoist - Right all the way - Archive - Right-Down-Right - Trash Same 3 options...

Forgot to mention, major portion of this app was actually made on Caltrain, so I just published an article sharing how I did it https://medium.com/@fangpenlin/how-i-made-an-email-app-on-caltrain-866f482226ff

By the way, if anybody interested in how the UI was built, I use an interesting approach, I call it showcase driven development, I wrote an article before Boost Productivity with Showcase-driven Development for Mobile or Front-end App https://fangpenlin.com/posts/2018/12/01/boost-productivity-with-showcase-driven-development-for-mobile-or-frontend-apps/

Hi there, My name is Fang-Pen, you may know me via my previous pet project Avataaars Generator on Product Hunt. Here I am going to introduce my exciting new product Zero Inbox. I always wanted a simple iPhone email app that can help myself achieve zero inbox. And to get zero inbox, I found it really hard to do that with most email apps out there. Sometimes they are just too complex and doesn't...

Hi there, I made Avataaars https://www.producthunt.com/posts/avataaars Sketch library as a React component and open source it here. With it you can use avataaars in your React app easily! Thanks @pablostanley for his awesome design! I also updated Avataaars Generator https://getavataaars.com, you can configure the avatar style you like and generate the React code directly from the generator. It...

Hi guys, I saw @pablostanley posted avataaars https://www.producthunt.com/posts/avataaars on Wednesday, I love it so much and can’t help thinking it would be super awesome if there is a web app for generating avataaars, so that even people don’t have Sketch installed can also use it. With that idea in mind, I spent few nights building this simple web app. You can select the options you want in...

Hi there 😃 👋, I am the maker of TipWander. Four years ago I moved to San Francisco from Taiwan, I found myself still connected to friends from Taiwan but they are literally on the other side of the world, it's very easily reachable via social networks no matter how far they are, however, we are not really connected in any sense. So sometimes I wonder, why there is no such platform that allows...