Jackie Qin

building Venus · brooklyn, ny

The part people choose.
The part systems depend on.

Make the next action obvious. Make the operation less fragile.

Find it. Trust it. Act.
Hold it. Route it. Keep it.

One build, two kinds of proof.

ProductIn development

Venus

A social + real-estate product for Chinese communities in North America.

发现下一个家。find your next home
法拉盛flushing 多伦多toronto 华人街chinatown 洛杉矶los angeles 旧金山san francisco

Visit Venus

Distilled ink print: two groups of unequal marks pressed toward opposite edges of a cream sheet, a wide bare span between them, and one small cinnabar mark alone in that span
Developer toolingOpen source · WIP

macos-dev-sandbox

Safer local development environments, built in the open.

(version 1)
(deny default)
(allow file-read*
  (subpath "/Users/dev/project"))
(allow network-outbound
  (remote tcp "localhost:*"))
(deny file-write*
  (subpath "/Users/dev/.ssh"))

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Distilled ink print: three hand-cut enclosures nested inside one another with unequal margins, the innermost left as bare paper, and one narrow teal seam where the outer boundaries fail to close

Useful on the screen. Sound underneath.

A clear thing that works, can be explained, and is not a mystery next Tuesday.

Sparse paper-and-ink tea still life with a teapot, cup, rising steam, and abstract rain or window marks

Customer clarity

Surfaces that make the offer and the next step legible.

Operational shape

Foundations for the decisions a product keeps making.

Connected handoff

Surface and system as one honest product.

Open to coffee chats—and tea chats, too.

Agent skillsOpen source · MIT

Jackie-Qin/skills

This page is the demo. The design language it is built in, and the worktree flow that builds it, published as installable skills.

ui
xuanzhi-designpaper and ink zhuanke-sealseal carving
productivity
wt-startfresh worktree wt-closeclose on proof main-updatebatch sweep 
/plugin marketplace add Jackie-Qin/skills
/plugin install qin-skills

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  1. 01Idea
  2. 02Prototype
  3. 03Working product
  4. 04Maintained

A builder for the part after the idea.

I build products, systems, and websites that earn their place in somebody’s day.

I care about the final mile: the states people actually hit, the copy that tells them what to do, the maintenance nobody plans until they need it.

available for web & product work

Start with what people need to do.

Every scroll ends with room for the reader’s words. Tell me what is not working, or what your team keeps avoiding in a browser.