Hi there 👋
My name is Val and I'm a start-up founder, programmer, husband, dad and someone who tries to be a good human every day.
I've had a long career in mobile app development and still consult as an Android & iOS developer as my main job. You can find some of my old blog posts on mobile development on Medium.
I love building & growing my own products and am using whatever extra time I have to do just that. My first venture into this was building Curated - a social network for discovering and browsing your favourite content. It got picked up and featured on the Google Playstore shortly after being released.
I took my learnings from it and decided to move into the web - a platform I hadn't had much experience in but one that I felt was much more open & accessible for startups. Most importantly - in web development you can iterate much quicker.
I am now actively developing Thankbox along with my wife and partner - a family startup if you will! Its an online card that lets you group together with colleagues or friends to celebrate someone’s special occasion by collecting messages, images, gifs, videos and cash. I am learning a lot while doing it - both about the technical side of web development but also about marketing & growing a startup efficiently.
Want to follow me and my work? You can reach me on Twitter and LinkedIn.