[Ep.2] Hackathons, Teaching Yourself to Code, and Being Open to Change with Ahyrun Moon
Update: 2015-08-20
Description
Ahyrun Moon is one of the founders of Etch, a new keyboard app that was created at the popular LAUNCH hackathon is San Francisco.
Ahryun is originally from Korea, but studied and worked in the US as a financial analyst.
In this episode, Ahryun explains how she was able to pivot her career from crunching numbers in Excel to now crunching code and launching products.
Her latest project, Etch, was featured by Apple just one week after going live. Ahryun shares how this happened and how you can launch with thousands of users on day one.
Ahryun has accomplished all of this without a background in programming and as a newcomer to Silicon Valley.
**Recommended Resources**
Ahryun's meetup in SF: App-a-Month (bit.ly/sk_app-a-month)
Abel's app: PooTime (bit.ly/pootime)
Stanford Course: Developing iOS 8 Apps (bit.ly/sk_ios8)
**Tell Me What You Think**
Send me your ideas, feedback, or interview requests to: abel@startupkorea.co
Abel on Facebook (bit.ly/fb_abel) + Website (bit.ly/web_abel)
Startup Korea on Facebook (bit.ly/sk_fb)
If you enjoy this show: please subscribe on iTunes (bit.ly/startupkorea_itunes)
Thanks for your support and for listening!
Ahryun is originally from Korea, but studied and worked in the US as a financial analyst.
In this episode, Ahryun explains how she was able to pivot her career from crunching numbers in Excel to now crunching code and launching products.
Her latest project, Etch, was featured by Apple just one week after going live. Ahryun shares how this happened and how you can launch with thousands of users on day one.
Ahryun has accomplished all of this without a background in programming and as a newcomer to Silicon Valley.
**Recommended Resources**
Ahryun's meetup in SF: App-a-Month (bit.ly/sk_app-a-month)
Abel's app: PooTime (bit.ly/pootime)
Stanford Course: Developing iOS 8 Apps (bit.ly/sk_ios8)
**Tell Me What You Think**
Send me your ideas, feedback, or interview requests to: abel@startupkorea.co
Abel on Facebook (bit.ly/fb_abel) + Website (bit.ly/web_abel)
Startup Korea on Facebook (bit.ly/sk_fb)
If you enjoy this show: please subscribe on iTunes (bit.ly/startupkorea_itunes)
Thanks for your support and for listening!
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