Hi👋 I'm Zoe Chew

Full-time product builder and MVP coach helping entrepreneurs ideate, validate, and market Internet-native products.For fun, I made apps that got featured on Product Hunt #1, Lifehacker, HackerNoon & tech blogs in 7 countries.

Medium Top Writer 3x

LinkedIn Influencer x1

HackerNoon Winner 2x

Product Hunt #1

If you can nail the customer problems, make sense of the markets, and deliver great product value, you can build and grow any products. My work revolves around giving you these valuable insights:

Helping builders with...

Free Product Guide

Learn to validate customer problems, identify high-potential product ideas, create functional MVPs with my free Product Guides.

Video Consultation

Get a 1:1 Zoom call for advice on no-code MVP creation and market validation strategies. Price: 200USD/hour

Product Promotion

Want to reach out to more customers without hard selling? You can buy a sponsorship and advertise on my newsletter.

What people are saying 💕

Words from people who've benefited from my product building advice

Hacker Noon interview 😻

I was featured by HackerNoon, a tech publication with 8 million monthly readers that includes technology leaders, developers, and founders.

Public speaking 🤓

Before working in tech, I was as a freelance marketing trainer, coach and instructor for businesses and employees.

About Me 😊

I enjoy building and writing at the intersection of product, MVPs, and early-stage startups. Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Always building, occasionally online:

Currently ⭐️

Previously 👈

  • Remote consultant for early-stage VC-backed tech cos based in Japan, San Francisco, and New York City

  • Advising on MVP development, product strategies, & startup marketing

  • Mainly helping to grow digital-first products with global market accessibility

  • Before working in tech, I was a freelance marketer in content marketing and online advertising

Expertise 😎

  • Turning ideas into reality with fast prototyping

  • Building no-code MVPs (minimum viable products)

  • Helping early-stage startups with market validation

  • Closing the gaps between Product, Market & Solution

  • Getting new products in front of paying customers

Global Mention 🌎

My Journey 🐾

  • First Class Honor Bachelor's Degree in International Business & Marketing

  • Started freelancing as a marketer shortly after graduating from college

  • Got into coding and no-code prototyping to develop and monetize my own products

  • Building profitable businesses full-time with an international customer base

How I Learn 🧠

  • Learn by doing, building & creating

  • Pursue knowledge in T (width and depth)

  • Micro consumption, macro execution

  • Cross-disciplinary, a multifaceted approach

  • A generalist who thrive in the digital age

Personal Moats 🥇

  • Mastery in creating, building, and selling

  • Rare combination of a marketer, product thinker & designer

  • Can-do spirit, sustained dedication to achieve anything I set my mind to

  • Learn patterns, break patterns. Try until I start winning :P

Productivity Tips ⚡️

  • Develop single-pointed, unwavering focus ability

  • Become easy to find, but (almost) impossible to reach

  • Develop prolonged & sustained mental, physical and emotional energy

  • Practice deep work and deep rest to prevent burnout

  • Protect your energy and time as if they were life and death

Product Lessons 🥳

  • Don’t chase new startup ideas. Focus on the problems to solve, then you will have ideas.

  • Build something you wish existed and become the user of your own product.

  • The best sign for product-market fit is when sustainable number of people pay to use your product.

Fun Facts 😂

  • Back in college, I dabbled in electronic music production and DJing

  • I composed and released my first EDM track on a record label based in Miami, United States

  • The same track had also been featured on local radio station

  • Performed and DJ-ed in front of 5,000 people at a corporate event

Favorite Quotes 🖊️

  • "Figure out how to figure it out" — Sam Altman.

  • "Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born" — Nikola Tesla.

  • "Entrepreneurship is not about starting companies; it's about solving problems." — Michael Seibel.

  • "What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create" — Laws of Attraction

Realization 🚦

  • Stay humble. Everything we have accomplished, owned, experienced, and accumulated is merely temporary "rentalship," never lasting "ownership." We come with empty hands and back to nature ⚰️ with empty hands.

  • Be perceptive. Death will eventually eradicate what was never ours in the first place., i.e. job title, identity, property, lovers, money.

  • Struggling emotions are usually caused by confusing happiness with joy; intellect with wisdom; and outside validation with passion.

  • Be your own creator. Following a "templated" life defined by any authority will leave you feeling as if you are not living up to other people's "standard".

Learn the most from 📚

  • Jiddu Krishnamurti

  • Ramana Maharshi

  • Sadhguru

  • Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Performance

Pricing

  • Subscribers — 4,400+

  • Open Rate — 40.92%

  • Price — $200 USD per issue (big main highlight)

  • Audience—United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Amsterdam, India

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