Hyunsung Shin

Hyunsung Shin

I build learning products people actually use. Currently co-founding cookr — before that I founded PeanutStudy and sold it. CS undergrad at HKUST, based between Hong Kong and Korea.


Selected Work

coming soon

cookr building

TikTok for studying — a scrollable feed of AI-generated practice questions from your own notes. I own product and engineering: Expo, TypeScript, Supabase, and a multi-pass LLM pipeline for question generation and grading.

PeanutStudy landing page

PeanutStudy acquired

A gamified study app built solo — collectible characters, live study rooms, Pomodoro sessions. 10,000+ users, 1,500 peak DAU, 58% D1 retention. Grew entirely through short-form content (3M+ Reels views), then sold.

preview soon

852Planner shut down

AI-powered travel itinerary planner for Hong Kong, generating personalized plans with Google Vertex AI and the Maps API.

Handible landing page

Handible live

A web library for real-time hand detection and 3D gestures using only a webcam.