Hi, I'm Jonathan Bree.
Building 20 startup experiments: 20startups.me ⚡
Playing at the intersection of spatial interfaces, social dynamics and incentives
Pioneer tournament winner
🎓 MIT Bootcamp alum (scholarship)
X: LEGO, Telefonica, Samsung, WhereIsMyTransport
Fellow at OnDeck, Founders of the Future and The RSA
Writing
I write about my product experiments → johnnymakes.co
Essays → distortions.substack.com
Tweets at → @johnny_makes
Projects and work
A virtual island for your remote team. Feel more together and recreate the flow and serendipity of working side-by-side.
Arranging an activity or event? Easily gather money and people's specific orders in advance with SquadPay.
No more missed connections 🔀
Discover the most relevant people currently working in the same coffee shop or coworking space as you, and connect with them 🙋♀️🙋♂️
Zero Percent is a space for non-drinkers - with a habit tracker bot 📈, a community chat 👨👩👧👦 and crowdsourced non-drinker venue recommendations 📍
Being a solo founder doesn't have to mean working alone. Join your own team of solo makers and founders, working side-by-side and getting more done. Support, accountability. and connection. Wherever you are.
No more SIM swapping or being locked out of your online accounts. Get your 2-factor codes forwarded to a designated email or alternate number, or simply log in and see your received messages.
Building a community of early adopters and matching them with bold early-stage food startups - providing early product feedback and early brand support.
A social experiment in motivation. Does a regular reminder of the limited span of life encourage a person to make the most of every day?
Enabling businesses to reduce their operating costs through sub-leasing their excess desk inventory, and connecting teams and entrepreneurs to lower cost workspace.
A product studio with an emphasis on social impact and partnerships with startups.
A global multi-platform communications service that I product managed, and grew to its 1st 1M users.
A sustainable clothing company project that I launched & ran as a side-project while at university.
A physical product designed to counter poor nutritional habits by providing a hassle-free way to eat cheaply and healthily at work.
An app concept to locate friends/contacts in low-connectivity environments, through a Bluetooth mesh-network.
Exploratory research work into what the potential future role of a mobile network could be.
Acknowledging that people have different personas in different social scenarios, Flip provides a different mobile number for each area of your life, allowing users to keep interactions segmented.
Packaging concept that aimed to address workplace diversity in technical industries through the power of play and long-term thinking.
A pair of hand-worn wearables providing non-visual navigation, indicators, incident detection, and fitness data.