Jack Hoge is a designer and product engineer, lately enjoying AI a bit too much.
/nowplaying harmonica on a paddleboard
Of all the millions of Sora-generated cat photos, this has gotta be the best.
GPT-5 is unsportsmanlike. It one-shotted Pong and just cheats against you on line 299. 😡 Technically, there's also a two-player mode.
GPT-5 one-shotted this seaside RPG, but kinda forgot to build a plot. You can collect some seashells, build walls, and faint.
While you're here, why not generate a LinkedIn post?
Quimbee
Developed new quiz and scoring features for this legal education startup's mobile app, built in Ionic Framework.
Matterport
Redesigned several marketing pages, created a new style template, and wrote front-end code for this 3D home tour hardware/software company.
Andy Sands
Designed and developed this WordPress site for a music producer in NYC.
Quickbooks
Sketched wireframes, designed mockups, built interactive prototypes, and conducted user research with the Care & Onboarding teams.
Puppygram
Designed and developed this silly site to let people send puppy-printed postcards anywhere in the world.
Morning Mill
Designed and developed this Mac menubar app to help anyone hit a writing goal of 1000 words per day. Launched with a Medium post and featured on Product Hunt.
Algolia
Worked with the sales team to close new deals, and advised existing customers on UI/UX, search performance, and integrating Algolia into their existing stacks.
Take Sunset
Improved performance and SEO, and wrote front-end code for this LA-based real estate company.
Brainscape
Prototyped new design concepts for this independent learning platform.
Gigster
Screened potential customers, handled my own sales pipeline, advised new customers on design and product strategy, and closed over $600,000 of new deals.
Milezguru
Designed and developed this mobile app to let people track their loyalty reward programs.
Networx
Designed and developed this mobile app that let corporate employees share anonymous feedback about their company.
Boot Camp Hub
Led an in-product interaction and visual redesign of core fitness areas; developed a chat interface with React, and built new fitness features in Rails.
Hua
Designed and developed this mobile app to let users practice languages by chatting with native speakers. Tested with language meetup attendees, launched a beta, and was featured on Product Hunt, Skift, and BRIT+CO.
Hipstermaid
Designed and developed the consumer-facing website, payment integrations with Stripe and Dwolla, scheduling algorithms, quality control logic, and a mobile webapp for cleaner check-ins.
Newslook
Designed and developed a video interface that let people browse videos by political leaning or sentiment.
CA Technologies
Helped build a DevOps-readiness quiz for kiosks at CA's annual convention.
Social Pandas
Wrote front-end code to support this B2B social network.
Ann Taylor
Wrote front-end code for the design of a new blogging effort.
ordrx
Designed mobile interfaces for this hotel food ordering product during Techstars NYC.
The Melt
Wrote front-end code to support kiosk ordering for this SF-based sandwich chain.
Contently
Designed new onboarding flows and an animated pitch deck for this content marketplace.
Lore
Helped write front-end code for this edtech startup's classroom interface during Techstars NYC.
Mutopo
Designed and developed this NYC-based agency's marketing site in WordPress.
Club Divot
Wrote web scrapers to fetch national golf course data, and built features to allow users to schedule tee times, browse courses, and connect with their friends.
Pantheon
Wrote front-end code for Pantheon's marketing site to get it ready for DrupalCon.
Smile by Webshots
Developed all the front-end interfaces for this new product that let legacy Webshots users store their photos and share with friends.
People I've Worked With
“Jack added tremendous value working with the companies in our summer program as a HackStar.”
“Jack helped us think outside the box and pushed us to explore a new type of design framework that we almost definitely would not have used otherwise.”
“His ability to pick up new frameworks quickly has allowed us to try new things that we otherwise wouldn't have touched.”
“We worked together remotely, in such a seamless fashion, to deliver a small agency site at a reasonable cost and in record time.”
“His expertise of HTML, CSS and jQuery saw us both through to the finish line, great person to work with!”
“Jack delivers work with a good design aesthetic and isn't afraid to innovate.”