Aaron Ng

I'm Aaron and I'm currently building a new company. I'm also an investor + advisor to startups, and was one of the earliest members of the CashApp design team and spent some time on the Facebook AR Sharing team. During my time in technology, I've built multiple personal apps that have charted in the app store, helped startups like dYdX at their earliest stages, and have been lucky enough to be covered in a few publications. You can reach me on X ↩.

Founding

Apollo: Private & Local AI ↩

Acquired by Liquid AI. A popular platform for running offline AI models privately on a phone or tablet.

Hyper Online: Avatar Studio ↩

One of the most popular avatar tools on iOS, used by over a million avatar content creators. Backed by Y Combinator, Amazon Alexa Fund, Two Sigma Ventures, MakersFund, and more.

Projects & Interests

Cognition & Enhancement

Why can't we be elves? I've spent a lot of time trying to juice out improvements in memory, f, and g because these are limiters to everything. Some of my more unusual projects include growing broccoli sprouts to harvest sulforaphane, attempting to induce grapheme-color synesthesia with daily training, and designing an exercise regimen that included dosing an HDAC inhibitor to open a closed neuroplasticity window. I've been tracking biometrics like sleep, steps, and co2 since the early 2010's.

Short-form Video Algorithms

I spent months dissecting the TikTok algorithm at the peak of COVID and coached a group of friends to 100K+ followers each. The most successful of our group grew to 500K+ followers in 3 weeks, and many of our group have since built businesses on their following.

App Development & Design

I build apps for myself, and many of these spend time in the top charts. These include apps like Flocknet [2020], which indexed over 30 million accounts as a graph search tool for Twitter. Chroma [2015], the most popular Philips Hue app for macOS at the time. SystemLens [2012], a #1 charting macOS utility for performance monitoring, mentioned in publications like LifeHacker. Multimon [2012], a #1 charting macOS utility for multiple-monitor support. And many more.