WISP — turning the small whispers of moments gone by into services
Turning the small
whispers of moments gone by
into services.
WISP is an acronym of Whisper from the past. A discomfort that lingered, a memory that suddenly came back, an idea too good to let slip — hotkkangs, an AI engineer and developer, turns these small voices from moments gone by into services and runs them personally, after work and on weekends.
When the past speaks up,
I build it myself
Starlight in the night sky left its source long ago and is only now arriving. A note left at a place is a memory that opens only when you go back there. The voice from a past call should be one only you can hear again. Looking back, many of WISP's services deal with signals the past sends to the present — AstroShare, a community for astrophotography; PigNote, which lets you bury memories in places; and voice-lock, which protects past calls. This is where I listen to those small whispers and build them alone, end to end, from planning to deployment and operations.
Projects
Ten projects I run myself, each one a whisper from the past turned into a service.
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Dokak
A mobile web + app for exploring mechanical keyboard switch sounds and decorating keycaps in a 3D studio.
Media · Community
03
Postit
A social blog for sharing posts and photos with friends. Set visibility and categories as you like.
Social · Blog
04
AstroShare
A community for taking and sharing astrophotos. Adds watermarks automatically and records shooting metadata.
Community · Media
05
Toss apps
A multi-tenant platform that serves several Apps in Toss mini-apps from one backend. It hosts three games and PigNote.
Toss · Mini-apps
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Today's Choice
A choice-driven adventure that starts at a crosswalk and branches into 26 endings. Progress is saved to your Google account so you can pick up where you left off.
Android · Game
07
PigNote
A note (sticky note) you leave at a place opens only when you go back there. The more you record, the more your character Pig grows.
Location-based · Social journaling
08
The Oddballs I Met (peek-a-moo)
A one-round-a-day quiz: guess the quirky name of the oddball who appears every midnight from just its voice and silhouette.
Android · Quiz game
09
voice-lock
Encrypts call recordings on the device with your own password and deletes the original only after verification passes. The server cannot open your recordings.
Android · Security utility
10
drover
herdr on your phone, just like on a desktop. An SSH client that handles Korean (Hangul) input and Ctrl·Alt properly.
Android · Developer tool
Curious how they were built?
Each project's page shows which technologies it uses and how it was built.