thomas schüller
builder · co-founder · oslo ↔ lisbon
about
cto at wolve.ai (loyalty & retention for e-commerce). co-founder of mittalmar (youtube research for creators) and seawiz (maritime data platform for shipping). also running y corp labs, a small personal holding & consultancy.
msc from ntnu's school of entrepreneurship (2022–2024), with a summer at boston university. bsc in IT from oslomet before that.
previously: one of the first employees at indyriot (direct-to-fan platform for musicians). full-stack consulting via my own shop. built a covid-era loan calculator for dnb, norway's largest bank, among other things. bachelor capstone was skillsnest, an internal consultant-to-project matching tool for tietoevry that stayed in use for a few years.
what i'm good at: shipping software people use. some of it makes money, some of it doesn't. all of it taught me something.
also: i write occasionally and invest in weird things (chickens, below).
work
- wolve.ai · cto. loyalty & retention platform for e-commerce. turns first-time buyers into repeat customers.
- mittalmar · co-founder. youtube research & niche-finding tool for creators.
- seawiz · cto & co-founder. maritime information platform with benchmarks & analytics for shipping.
- logoru.sh · solo project. ai logo generator. describe it, remix it, ship it. a few paying customers.
- nøkternt.no · solo project. free norwegian news rewritten by ai to be calmer and more neutral. a few users so far.
- piss olsen · solo project. the norwegian card game for browsers and desktop, with bots and private online rooms.
- y corp labs · personal holding & consultancy (wip)
- tanzania chicken farm · small-stake investor in a poultry operation in tanzania 🐔
writing
- · the second file wasn’t free, so i built a converter
- · building nøkternt
- · hello, world
- · how to deploy a bun app to azure web app ↗ · medium
- · a dive into window managers ↗ · kode24 (also: medium )
publications
probably my first and last 🙃
- sandvold, schuller, rolfsvåg, sikkerbøl, medola, sandnes. revisiting redundant text color coding in user interfaces ↗ , uahci / hci international 2023, copenhagen. springer lncs 14020.
graveyard
things i shipped and shut down. the price of finding out what works.
- valemon (2023): templated restaurant websites with the usual stuff. spent a day building a prototype, then killed it without ever properly launching, testing, or trying to sell it. built instead of finding out if anyone wanted it.
- cc invest (2020–21): built with a couple of friends. scraped stock exchanges and collected billions of end-of-day and intraday datapoints for algorithms and machine-learning models that were supposed to predict stock prices. then split the whole thing into approximately one repo per idea and overengineered it into oblivion. an impressive amount of data, with less impressive returns.
- rize.so / tradechat.no: two-sided marketplace connecting esports teams with sponsors. couldn't crack the cold-start.
- headoutofass.com: tongue-in-cheek game about norwegian exit-tax, co-built with trond hauga. picked up by finansavisen / kapital. (offline, might revive)
- drinkifyapp.com: first full-stack thing i shipped end-to-end. tiny app for cocktail recipes. (domain long gone)
fun facts
- chicken investor in tanzania 🐔
- summer at boston university's entrepreneurship program (2023)
- wrote the first node sdk for indykite. it was super bad and got rewritten quickly. shipped is shipped 🙃
- at 14 i ran a door-to-door cookie business with friends
- got my first computer at ~10 and immediately wrote a minecraft mod on it
- almost got hit by a seaplane once while driving my boat with a banana tube