Overview
-
Quest is a safari quotation platform for tour operators. I co-founded Quest as CTO and lead a 3-person engineering/product team building the platform: operator dashboards, admin tools, travel requests, itinerary planning, pricing, branded PDF generation, quote email delivery, content libraries, billing, and release workflows.
+
Quest is a Kampala, Uganda-based safari quotation platform for tour operators that I work on remotely from Seoul. I co-founded Quest as CTO and lead a 3-person engineering/product team building the platform: operator dashboards, admin tools, travel requests, itinerary planning, pricing, branded PDF generation, quote email delivery, content libraries, billing, and release workflows.
Problem
Tour operators often build quotes through spreadsheets, scattered assets, manual document editing, and repeated back-and-forth with travelers. Quest turns that workflow into structured software: requests become itineraries, pricing becomes traceable, and final proposals become branded PDF and email outputs.
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Overview
-
HoverNotes is a privacy-first AI video note-taking product that turns online lectures, tutorials, and course videos into structured notes users can keep in their own Obsidian/Markdown workflows. I founded and built the product across browser-extension workflows, a Next.js web app, AI note-generation systems, payments, analytics, localization, SEO, and production operations.
+
HoverNotes is a U.S. company and privacy-first AI video note-taking product that I operate remotely from Seoul. It turns online lectures, tutorials, and course videos into structured notes users can keep in their own Obsidian/Markdown workflows. I founded and built the product across browser-extension workflows, a Next.js web app, AI note-generation systems, payments, analytics, localization, SEO, and production operations.
Current Scale
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index dac5aba..30a0a05 100644
--- a/career_evidence/index.yml
+++ b/career_evidence/index.yml
@@ -15,10 +15,11 @@ roles:
- id: quest-platform
public_name: Quest Safari Quotation Platform
- organization: Quest
+ organization: Quest, Kampala, Uganda
public_url: https://questheaven.com
role: CTO and Co-founder
period: 2026 - Present needs confirmation
+ location: Kampala, Uganda; remote from Seoul, South Korea
evidence_file: roles/quest-platform.md
source_repos:
- private-local-workspace/quest/quest-web-app
@@ -31,9 +32,10 @@ roles:
- id: quest-pdf-service
public_name: Quest PDF Service
- organization: Quest
+ organization: Quest, Kampala, Uganda
role: CTO and Co-founder / PDF infrastructure owner
period: 2026 - Present needs confirmation
+ location: Kampala, Uganda; remote from Seoul, South Korea
evidence_file: roles/quest-pdf-service.md
source_repos:
- private-local-workspace/quest/quest-pdf-service
@@ -44,9 +46,10 @@ roles:
- id: hovernotes
public_name: HoverNotes
- organization: HoverNotes
+ organization: HoverNotes, U.S. company
role: Technical Founder and CEO
period: Jul 2025 - Present
+ location: U.S. company; remote from Seoul, South Korea
evidence_file: roles/hovernotes.md
source_repos:
- private-local-workspace/hovernotes/hover-notes-web-app
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index c7828fc..8b0242a 100644
--- a/career_evidence/linkedin/2026-06-05-linkedin-update-plan.md
+++ b/career_evidence/linkedin/2026-06-05-linkedin-update-plan.md
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Full-time
Location:
-Remote / Seoul
+U.S. company; remote from Seoul
Dates:
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Jan 2026 - Present if you want to match the xAI parser inference; otherwise 2026
Description:
-Co-founded Quest as CTO and lead a 3-person engineering/product team building a safari quotation platform for Uganda-based tour operators.
+Co-founded Quest as CTO and lead a 3-person engineering/product team building a Kampala, Uganda-based safari quotation platform for Uganda-based tour operators while working remotely from Seoul.
Quest turns operator quoting from spreadsheets, scattered assets, and manual documents into a structured workflow for travel requests, itineraries, quote pricing, branded PDFs, quote email delivery, billing, analytics, and content libraries.
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ Contract
Location:
-Remote
+Kampala, Uganda; remote from Seoul
Dates:
@@ -369,7 +369,8 @@ Additional skills worth keeping:
- Remove or reduce emoji-heavy section labels in older experience entries. They are memorable, but the profile now needs a cleaner senior/founder tone.
- Add Quest and xAI as current roles so LinkedIn reflects current reality.
-- Update HoverNotes location from `United States - Hybrid` if that is no longer the desired public framing.
+- HoverNotes location confirmed on 2026-06-06: officially a U.S. company, with Hamza working on it remotely from Seoul.
+- Quest location confirmed on 2026-06-06: set up in Kampala, Uganda, with Hamza working on it remotely from Seoul.
- Avoid saying `zero cloud data storage` unless it is strictly true. Safer phrasing: `local-first workflows` and `privacy-first note ownership`.
- Replace `45+ language localization` if current supported production locales are closer to 10. Safer phrasing: `localized UI/content and multilingual AI note workflows`.
- Keep Slid technical depth, but compress it slightly so HoverNotes + Quest feel like the current center of gravity.
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index a5af3e1..a9b2ee5 100644
--- a/career_evidence/linkedin/2026-06-05-new-about-section.md
+++ b/career_evidence/linkedin/2026-06-05-new-about-section.md
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ I’m a technical founder, CTO, and AI/full-stack engineer building products whe
Right now I spend most of my time on two products:
-**HoverNotes** - a privacy-first AI video note-taking product that turns online lectures, tutorials, and course videos into structured notes users can keep in their own Obsidian/Markdown workflows. I founded and built the product across the Chrome/Edge extension, Next.js web app, realtime video-in notes-out AI workflows, payments, analytics, localization, SEO, and production operations. As of June 2026, HoverNotes is doing over $10K/month in revenue with around 20K installs across Chrome and Edge.
+**HoverNotes** - a U.S. company and privacy-first AI video note-taking product that I operate remotely from Seoul. It turns online lectures, tutorials, and course videos into structured notes users can keep in their own Obsidian/Markdown workflows. I founded and built the product across the Chrome/Edge extension, Next.js web app, realtime video-in notes-out AI workflows, payments, analytics, localization, SEO, and production operations. As of June 2026, HoverNotes is doing over $10K/month in revenue with around 20K installs across Chrome and Edge.
-**Quest** - a safari quotation platform for tour operators. I co-founded Quest as CTO and lead a 3-person engineering/product team building the platform: operator dashboards, admin tools, travel requests, itinerary planning, pricing, branded PDF generation, quote email delivery, content libraries, billing, and release workflows.
+**Quest** - a Kampala, Uganda-based safari quotation platform for tour operators that I work on remotely from Seoul. I co-founded Quest as CTO and lead a 3-person engineering/product team building the platform: operator dashboards, admin tools, travel requests, itinerary planning, pricing, branded PDF generation, quote email delivery, content libraries, billing, and release workflows.
I also contract with xAI Human Data on software-engineering model evaluation, reviewing AI-generated code across languages and domains to help improve coding-model quality.
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ My work sits at the intersection of product judgment and deep engineering execut
Right now I’m focused on two products:
-**HoverNotes** - a privacy-first AI video note-taking product that turns online lectures, tutorials, and course videos into structured notes users can keep in their own Obsidian/Markdown workflows. I founded and built the product across the Chrome/Edge extension, Next.js web app, realtime video-in notes-out AI workflows, payments, analytics, localization, SEO, and production operations. As of June 2026, HoverNotes is doing over $10K/month in revenue with around 20K installs across Chrome and Edge.
+**HoverNotes** - a U.S. company and privacy-first AI video note-taking product that I operate remotely from Seoul. It turns online lectures, tutorials, and course videos into structured notes users can keep in their own Obsidian/Markdown workflows. I founded and built the product across the Chrome/Edge extension, Next.js web app, realtime video-in notes-out AI workflows, payments, analytics, localization, SEO, and production operations. As of June 2026, HoverNotes is doing over $10K/month in revenue with around 20K installs across Chrome and Edge.
-**Quest** - a safari quotation platform for tour operators. I co-founded Quest as CTO and lead a 3-person engineering/product team building operator dashboards, admin tools, travel requests, itinerary planning, pricing, branded PDF generation, quote email delivery, content libraries, billing, and release workflows.
+**Quest** - a Kampala, Uganda-based safari quotation platform for tour operators that I work on remotely from Seoul. I co-founded Quest as CTO and lead a 3-person engineering/product team building operator dashboards, admin tools, travel requests, itinerary planning, pricing, branded PDF generation, quote email delivery, content libraries, billing, and release workflows.
I also contract with xAI Human Data on software-engineering model evaluation, reviewing AI-generated code across languages and domains to help improve coding-model quality.
@@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ My work sits at the intersection of product judgment and deep engineering execut
Right now I’m focused on two products:
-**HoverNotes** - a privacy-first AI video note-taking product that turns online lectures, tutorials, and course videos into structured notes users can keep in their own Obsidian/Markdown workflows. I founded and built the product across the Chrome/Edge extension, Next.js web app, realtime video-in notes-out AI workflows, payments, analytics, localization, SEO, and production operations. As of June 2026, HoverNotes is doing over $10K/month in revenue with around 20K installs across Chrome and Edge.
+**HoverNotes** - a U.S. company and privacy-first AI video note-taking product that I operate remotely from Seoul. It turns online lectures, tutorials, and course videos into structured notes users can keep in their own Obsidian/Markdown workflows. I founded and built the product across the Chrome/Edge extension, Next.js web app, realtime video-in notes-out AI workflows, payments, analytics, localization, SEO, and production operations. As of June 2026, HoverNotes is doing over $10K/month in revenue with around 20K installs across Chrome and Edge.
-**Quest** - a safari quotation platform for tour operators. I co-founded Quest as CTO and lead a 3-person engineering/product team building operator dashboards, admin tools, travel requests, itinerary planning, pricing, branded PDF generation, quote email delivery, content libraries, billing, and release workflows.
+**Quest** - a Kampala, Uganda-based safari quotation platform for tour operators that I work on remotely from Seoul. I co-founded Quest as CTO and lead a 3-person engineering/product team building operator dashboards, admin tools, travel requests, itinerary planning, pricing, branded PDF generation, quote email delivery, content libraries, billing, and release workflows.
I also contract with xAI Human Data on software-engineering model evaluation, reviewing AI-generated code across languages and domains to help improve coding-model quality.
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ I’m a technical founder, CTO, and AI/full-stack engineer building products whe
Currently, I’m focused on **HoverNotes** and **Quest**.
-At HoverNotes, I founded and built a privacy-first AI video note-taking product with over $10K/month revenue and around 20K Chrome/Edge installs. The product turns online lectures, tutorials, and course videos into structured notes users can keep in their own Obsidian/Markdown workflows.
+At HoverNotes, I founded and built a U.S. company and privacy-first AI video note-taking product with over $10K/month revenue and around 20K Chrome/Edge installs, working remotely from Seoul. The product turns online lectures, tutorials, and course videos into structured notes users can keep in their own Obsidian/Markdown workflows.
-At Quest, I’m CTO and co-founder, leading a 3-person engineering/product team building a safari quotation platform for tour operators: requests, itineraries, pricing, branded PDFs, quote emails, content libraries, billing, and release workflows.
+At Quest, I’m CTO and co-founder, leading a 3-person engineering/product team building a Kampala, Uganda-based safari quotation platform for tour operators while working remotely from Seoul: requests, itineraries, pricing, branded PDFs, quote emails, content libraries, billing, and release workflows.
I also contract with xAI Human Data on software-engineering model evaluation, reviewing AI-generated code across languages and domains to improve coding-model quality.
diff --git a/career_evidence/roles/hovernotes.md b/career_evidence/roles/hovernotes.md
index 859ce50..9a68e3b 100644
--- a/career_evidence/roles/hovernotes.md
+++ b/career_evidence/roles/hovernotes.md
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
## Metadata
-- Evidence status: Repo-backed working draft, user-confirmed revenue/install metrics as of 2026-06-05
+- Evidence status: Repo-backed working draft; user-confirmed revenue/install metrics and U.S. company setup as of 2026-06-05/06
- Public name: HoverNotes
-- Organization/client: HoverNotes
+- Organization/client: HoverNotes, U.S. company
- Role/title: Technical Founder and CEO
- Period: Jul 2025 - Present
-- Location: Remote, United States / Seoul, South Korea needs confirmation
+- Location: U.S. company; operated remotely from Seoul, South Korea
- Source repos:
- `private-local-workspace/hovernotes/hover-notes-web-app`
- Remote: `https://github.com/HoverNotes/hover-notes-web-app.git`
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@
## One-Line Positioning
-Founded and built HoverNotes, a privacy-first AI video note-taking product with around 20K Chrome/Edge installs and over $10K/month revenue as of June 5, 2026, turning online videos into structured notes through a browser extension, a Next.js web app, local-first Obsidian workflows, and multimodal AI note generation.
+Founded and built HoverNotes, a U.S. company and privacy-first AI video note-taking product operated remotely from Seoul, with around 20K Chrome/Edge installs and over $10K/month revenue as of June 5, 2026, turning online videos into structured notes through a browser extension, a Next.js web app, local-first Obsidian workflows, and multimodal AI note generation.
## Context
-HoverNotes is a privacy-first video learning platform. The product spans a Chrome/Edge browser extension, a Next.js web app, local file/vault integrations, payment and subscription systems, analytics, SEO/content infrastructure, and an AI backend integration for transcript, screenshot, and multimodal note generation.
+HoverNotes is a U.S.-based privacy-first video learning platform that Hamza operates remotely from Seoul. The product spans a Chrome/Edge browser extension, a Next.js web app, local file/vault integrations, payment and subscription systems, analytics, SEO/content infrastructure, and an AI backend integration for transcript, screenshot, and multimodal note generation.
The local web app repo is currently a production Next.js app (`hover-notes`, version `1.17.17` in `package.json`) with active changelog entries through June 2026.
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ The local web app repo is currently a production Next.js app (`hover-notes`, ver
- Exact revenue wording and whether to publish publicly: over $10K/month revenue, not MRR because annual subscriptions are included.
- Exact Chrome/Edge install count and whether to round publicly as 20K+ installs.
- Exact job title to use publicly: `Technical Founder and CEO`, `Founder`, `Founder/Engineer`, or another framing.
-- Location phrasing.
+- Location phrasing confirmed by user on 2026-06-06: officially a U.S. company; Hamza works on it remotely from Seoul.
- Extension repo path, backend repo path, and whether they can be named.
- Backend provider details: OpenAI/GPT-4, Whisper/Groq, LangChain, LangGraph, FastAPI.
- Whether internal funnel metrics can be used publicly, and at what precision.
diff --git a/career_evidence/roles/quest-pdf-service.md b/career_evidence/roles/quest-pdf-service.md
index 45da82a..d165d80 100644
--- a/career_evidence/roles/quest-pdf-service.md
+++ b/career_evidence/roles/quest-pdf-service.md
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
## Metadata
-- Evidence status: Verified local repo and user-stated CTO/co-founder role, dates need confirmation
+- Evidence status: Verified local repo and user-stated CTO/co-founder role and Kampala/Uganda setup, dates need confirmation
- Public name: Quest PDF Service
-- Organization/client: Quest
+- Organization/client: Quest, Kampala, Uganda
- Role/title: CTO and Co-founder / PDF infrastructure owner
- Period: 2026 - Present needs confirmation
-- Location: Needs confirmation
+- Location: Kampala, Uganda; Hamza works remotely from Seoul, South Korea
- Source repo: `private-local-workspace/quest/quest-pdf-service`
- Existing public artifacts: Not yet integrated into site/resume
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Led the PDF infrastructure for Quest, building a production microservice that tu
## Context
-Quest needs professional quote documents for safari operators and travelers. The web app sends structured quote data to this service, which renders branded templates, paginates content, generates PDFs in headless Chrome, and uploads the result to Cloudflare R2.
+Quest needs professional quote documents for safari operators and travelers from its Kampala, Uganda-based platform. The web app sends structured quote data to this service, which renders branded templates, paginates content, generates PDFs in headless Chrome, and uploads the result to Cloudflare R2.
The PDF service is part of the broader Quest CTO/co-founder role and pairs with the web app's quote builder, page settings, preview/edit drawers, quote email workflow, R2 asset handling, and output-level monetization.
diff --git a/career_evidence/roles/quest-platform.md b/career_evidence/roles/quest-platform.md
index cb00e19..b1aef1c 100644
--- a/career_evidence/roles/quest-platform.md
+++ b/career_evidence/roles/quest-platform.md
@@ -2,24 +2,24 @@
## Metadata
-- Evidence status: Verified local repo and user-stated CTO/co-founder role and 3-person team leadership, exact dates need confirmation
+- Evidence status: Verified local repo and user-stated CTO/co-founder role, 3-person team leadership, Kampala/Uganda setup, and remote-from-Seoul work location; exact dates need confirmation
- Public name: Quest Safari Quotation Platform
-- Organization/client: Quest
+- Organization/client: Quest, Kampala, Uganda
- Public URL: https://questheaven.com
- Role/title: CTO and Co-founder
- Period: 2026 - Present needs confirmation
-- Location: Needs confirmation
+- Location: Kampala, Uganda; Hamza works remotely from Seoul, South Korea
- Source repo: `private-local-workspace/quest/quest-web-app`
- Repo remote: `https://github.com/questdev-canine/quest-web-app.git`
- Existing public artifacts: Not yet integrated into site/resume
## One-Line Positioning
-Co-founded and leads technology for Quest (https://questheaven.com), a production Next.js platform that helps Uganda-based tour operators create accurate safari quotations, manage itinerary data, deliver branded quotes, and run operator-facing quote workflows.
+Co-founded and leads technology for Quest (https://questheaven.com), a Kampala, Uganda-based production Next.js platform that helps Uganda-based tour operators create accurate safari quotations, manage itinerary data, deliver branded quotes, and run operator-facing quote workflows while Hamza works remotely from Seoul.
## Context
-Quest is a web application for Uganda-based tour operators. The platform supports Quest/admin operations, operator dashboards, company onboarding, document verification, content libraries, travel requests, itinerary building, quote generation, quote email delivery, PDF previews/exports, tourist tracking, billing, and analytics.
+Quest is a Kampala, Uganda-based web application for Uganda-based tour operators. The platform supports Quest/admin operations, operator dashboards, company onboarding, document verification, content libraries, travel requests, itinerary building, quote generation, quote email delivery, PDF previews/exports, tourist tracking, billing, and analytics.
## Ownership
@@ -131,5 +131,6 @@ Quest is a web application for Uganda-based tour operators. The platform support
- Exact start month and whether to use `2026 - Present` or a specific month.
- Exact public role title: user stated CTO and co-founder.
+- Location phrasing confirmed by user on 2026-06-06: Quest is set up in Kampala, Uganda, and Hamza works on it remotely from Seoul.
- Launch status, customer/user scale, and any measurable business outcomes.
- Which features Hamza personally built versus inherited.