0 → 1000 followers in 6 days 🔥 Hi, I’m Krystian 👋 a product designer specializing in XR (AR/VR) & creative tech I’ve always been passionate about building products and side businesses This year, I took the leap to focus fully on #buildinpublic and explore new things (1/2) - ThreadSky

krystianzun.com • 177 days ago

0 → 1000 followers in 6 days 🔥

Hi, I’m Krystian 👋 a product designer specializing in XR (AR/VR) & creative tech

I’ve always been passionate about building products and side businesses

This year, I took the leap to focus fully on #buildinpublic and explore new things

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Comments

aa-frankie.bsky.social•177 days ago

If i wanted to branch into XR as a designer, how would you recommend i go about it? Im a designer too

krystianzun.com•177 days ago

I created XR Design Learning Roadmap exactly to answer that: https://krystianzun.gumroad.com/l/xrdesignroadmap

You should find there all resources and info to get started :)

Let me know if you find it useful

aa-frankie.bsky.social•177 days ago

Thank you 🎉

krystianzun.com•177 days ago

of course! 💖

krystianzun.com•177 days ago

In the last 11 months:

👉 Learned to code & built https://www.xrjobsboard.com
— 1k+ subs, first $150 MRR in 3 months

 👉 Created “XR Design Roadmap”
— 550+ downloads on Gumroad

 👉 Started monthly XR Design meetups in NYC & LDN

👉 Designed lecture and workshop on XR Design

 👉 40+ coffee calls

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krystianzun.com•177 days ago

And generally it’s been a great year of really stepping out of my comfort zone, and falling in love again with learning, creating, failing & growing

I love meeting new people so, please say Hi ٩( ✩'ω'✩ )و

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kenifxyz.bsky.social•173 days ago

hey krystian! this is a super cool space, i did a freelance project a couple of years back where we made job screening scenarios in unity with vr. was my first time dabbling in the space and a real eye opener!

krystianzun.com•173 days ago

sounds like a really cool application of VR, how did you find working in this technology?

kenifxyz.bsky.social•173 days ago

it was really challenging! i think a lot of the trouble is that it’s hard to catch bugs in the simulator, and the iteration loops are slower when you build it to test on the headset, were there any tricks that you used to get around this?

krystianzun.com•172 days ago

what hardware did you use?

If you use Unity and Windows, then you can just click play and interact with the experience

This speeds up the process. If you use Mac, then yeah, you have to go through the build process which is annoying

kenifxyz.bsky.social•172 days ago

right yeah! i used mac with the meta quest it was a real pain

johnnybuilds.bsky.social•175 days ago

Just added you to my #buildinpublic directory at https://publicbuilders.org/profile/krystian-zun - hope that's cool?

krystianzun.com•175 days ago

Of course! Thank you, Johnny! 🤗

kelvinong.bsky.social•177 days ago

Hi Krystian!

How long did it take for you to learn to code?

And then to launch?

Did you suffer from imposter syndrome??

krystianzun.com•176 days ago

hey Kelvin!

"Learned to code" is a bit of a stretch :D. I completed a couple of Next.js tutorials to have a general understanding and started building my idea using AI and googling as I went along

krystianzun.com•176 days ago

Launching and sharing early, even before my product was complete, was one of the best decisions

It helped to validate an idea and create a bit of buzz

I treat it as a learning project so don't feel much of an imposter syndrome because if it fails at least I learnt a lot

I hope it helps a bit

bynapkin.com•177 days ago

Love this post 🙏

krystianzun.com•177 days ago

thank you, Omar 💖

xjoshwalker.bsky.social•177 days ago

Curious what your revenue is for XR to date?

And if it’s lower than you want, what do you think needs to be different?

mark.speaker.blue•177 days ago

👏👏 Awesome story!

Why did you decide to specialize into XR tech ?

krystianzun.com•177 days ago

Thank you, Mark!

Previously I spent 5 years designing for all sorts of startups - edu, blockchain, b2b saas, etc.

at some point all of it start to feel too much like a boring office job

I found AR/VR very fascinating with novel design challenges and paradigms to explore