hi, i'm donna
berlin / sf / zurich / tallinn
i'm an engineer and founder.
i'm helping build flatsforfriendz into the first network-based flat rental marketplace.
you may also find me at founders inc working on noe.
a few other things I've built in the past:
- a keyword data visualization tool for SEO and search trend monitoring
anotherkeywordtool.com - noe - AI-powered skincare
iOS app - unit economics as a service
checkfa.st
i really like building consumer apps, and what they teach about dynamic systems at scale. but i also do some slightly more academic writing:
- Collective attention dynamics in tech discourse
collected a dataset of semantically encoded articles to reason about the corpus' semantic structure - Predicting the stock market based on public sentiment on Hacker News
latent time series FSA to test whether sentiment in a technically informed community predicts 2-3 month stock returns for tech companies. (spoiler: no)
and (very rarely) I also write: