Peter Mei

Detroit · Cranbrook ’27 · builds on school nights

Peter Mei

Four things that actually work. No adult supervision.

High-school senior near Detroit. Taught myself. Everything below is real and running.

  • 4things built, shipped, or shipping
  • 1startup with real users, volbase.app
  • 2native Apple apps, written in Swift
  • 0mentors. figured it out from the docs

shipping Kyou · running volbase · applying to college this fall

Live · volbase.app

Find it. Apply once. Leave with proof.

what
One place for students to find programs, apply once, and keep proof the organization signed.
hard part
Nearest-first search on a live map, sign-in, payments, email, and end-to-end tests. All of it solo.
stack
Next.jsSupabaseStripeMapLibreAI SDK
volbase.app
The live volbase.app landing page
demo
  1. 01volbase
  2. 02Rin
  3. 03Kyou
  4. 04Market Station

Elsewhere

Also: the parts without a keyboard.

  • FIRST Robotics

    Started the team.

    Rookie All-Star at Worlds, first season out.

  • Climbing

    Flashes V7. Projecting V10.

    Speed nationals with USA Climbing. Belay and lead certified.

  • Paby LLC

    Ran the warehouse.

    Ordering, inventory, fulfilment. One summer, one lighting company.

Photos

Also: a camera.

Shot on a Canon, mostly in Michigan, mostly things that hold still.

  • Cherry blossom against a grey spring sky
  • Late snow, a deer in the brush
  • An American robin on a berry branch
  • Purple hyacinth, close
  • The grille of an old orange GMC truck
  • A butterfly folded on a leaf
  • A crocus opening
  • Daffodils in a bed of periwinkle
  • A turtle sunning on a log
  • A squirrel mid-climb
  • A mallard, preening
  • Autumn canopy from below

About

Builder first. Plan second.

Swift · SwiftUI · AppKit · TypeScript · Next.js · React · Supabase · Stripe · Python · FastAPI

School
Cranbrook Kingswood, Class of 2027
Where
Detroit area, Michigan
Languages
English, Mandarin, Swift, TypeScript, Python
Sport
Climbing. Speed and bouldering
Before that
Varsity cross country. FRC and VEX Worlds
Next
Business, with a CS minor. Building the whole way through
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