


// CHAPTER I
Grids started as a side-project born out of a Tweet.
Goal: give every creative a "grid" to express themselves - a link-in-bio, portfolio, and personal website all in one.
> team
// CHAPTER I
Grids started as a side-project born out of a Tweet.
Goal: give every creative a grid to express themselves - a link-in-bio, portfolio, and personal website all in one.
team:
// CHAPTER I
Grids started as a side-project born out of a Tweet.
Goal: give every creative a grid to express themselves - a link-in-bio, portfolio, and personal website all in one.
team:




We built a drag-and-drop editor that let creatives shape their own unique grid with:
> images
> videos
> text
> links
// product
Our drag-and-drop builder let creatives build a unique bento grid:
> images
> videos
> text
> links
// product
Our drag-and-drop builder let creatives build a unique bento grid:
> images
> videos
> text
> links










Yiyang
This is a longer version of my bio to see what a multi-line bio would look like.
你好~ 我是白欣
Website
What I’m about
Who am I?
Reinventing myself at 29. Building a one-person online business in public.



Follow on Twitter






Take a breath
And let’s fly ☁️

// growth
We designed a simple waitlist that gave each sign up their own grid number to tweet, creating a small growth loop:
> 1,000 signups in 24h
> 5,100 total
// growth
We designed a growth loop that assigned each waitlist member a unique Grid number to share, resulting in 5,100 signups.
// growth
We designed a growth loop that assigned each waitlist member a unique Grid number to share, resulting in 5,100 signups.






After talking to 50+ designers, we learned their deeper motivation: while they wanted to showcase their work, their real goal was getting hired. Another link-in-bio tool wouldn't help them achieve this.
> We decided to pivot
After talking to 50+ designers, we learned their deeper motivation: while they wanted to showcase their work, their real goal was getting hired. Another link-in-bio tool wouldn't help them achieve this.
> We decided to pivot
After talking to 50+ designers, we learned their deeper motivation: while they wanted to showcase their work, their real goal was getting hired. Another link-in-bio tool wouldn't help them achieve this.
> We decided to pivot
After talking to 50+ designers, we learned their deeper motivation: while they wanted to showcase their work, their real goal was getting hired. Another link-in-bio tool wouldn't help them achieve this.
> We decided to pivot
After talking to 50+ designers, we learned their deeper motivation: while they wanted to showcase their work, their real goal was getting hired. Another link-in-bio tool wouldn't help them achieve this.
> We decided to pivot
// GRIDS 2.0
We re-designed Grids from the ground up as a job platform with three main features:
> Smart job matching powered by AI
> Tinder-like browsing to filter out jobs
> Portfolio builder focused on getting you hired

























// END
In late '24 we made the decision to focus on other, more exciting opportunities in AI and stopped working on Grids.