i'm jia (佳)(jiā). i grew up a sensitive gay girl with an active imagination in an unpredictable conservative asian immigrant household in the midwest.
jia cheni'm co-founding jam. any developer can get their users by talking to ai @ spreadjam.com.
github contributions, live updated ·
also currently hacking:
- open source typescript rate limiting analytics library @ asillios.com
(star on github if you see this)
previous stuff i did
- co-built sprint.dev. devtool distribution platform. 20k users in 5 months, 48k profit
- won 23 hackathons at places like yc, upenn, princeton
- 240k streams organically on spotify and apple music as an indie musician
- got 120 mil views on social media with 130k followers
- drone research at nasa usrc
- got software engineering infra offers from disney and intuit
2025 portfolio @ jiaseed.com
current thoughts
february 2nd, 2026, 12:37pm pst
day 517 of chin-ups
past thoughts
february 1st, 2026, 4:26pm pst: beta day
january 31st, 2026, 1:09pm pst
day 516 of chin-ups
january 30th, 2026, 8:00pm pst
day 515 of chin-ups
january 29th, 2026, 1:28am pst: music and food
january 27th, 2026, 3:52am pst
day 514 of chin-ups 40 a day in a few hours