Build Rad Shit
Trond WuellnerBuilding rad shit people love. Product lessons and experiments from 18+ years of shipping products at Google—and the side quests I build to learn.
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What a darkroom hobby teaches you about shipping AI products
A selection of prints from my final project in Darkroom III at Foothill College. All made with the benefit of the GlassMeter app.
This is the third and final post about GlassMeter, the film light meter I built to actually understand how me...
Using Antigravity to switch from React to Swift in one shot
An early rough version of GlassMeter from when it was built in React
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about GlassMeter, the film light meter I built because I bought a Hasselblad with no meter and discovered I had no idea how to expose a scen...
From light to a print: how a photograph actually gets made
The GlassMeter posts are about a light meter I built to understand metering. But a meter reading is only the first link in a long chain, and the rest of that chain is where film photography actually happens: chemistry, water, time, and a lo...
I built a light meter to understand light
Me and the 4×5 in Yosemite. High contrast, one sheet of film, and a scene I had no idea how to expose when this all started.
It started with a broken light meter.
I bought a Canon AE-1 at a camera swap, a beautiful old 35mm SLR and one of...
Build the travel app you've always wanted
Every summer, before the big family trip, I make The Doc.
You might make one too. It's a Google Doc with a table. Flights up top, then hotels, then a row for every day: what's booked, the confirmation codes, who's going where and when. I h...
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I'm a Product Director at Google Labs, leading NotebookLM, and a lifelong builder. Founder of numerous products at Google. Currently shipping AI products; nights and weekends I build with my kids, develop film, and make things just to understand how
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