Sacramento, California

Zachery
Converse

I build Vol.

A lot of pilots I know are lonelier than they say. Finding people to fly with can be hard. Becoming friends and staying connected when you're not flying is harder. I want Vol to make both a little easier.

JP Summers and I started Vol in Verbier, Switzerland. He is my friend, flying partner, and cofounder. I am the only engineer trying to see how far one engineer can get with AI.

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Zachery Converse on a rock climb, looking toward the camera

Vol

A flight log built around the people you fly with.

I built the codebase and the infrastructure from nothing: flight logs, 3D replay, maps, the feed, notifications, chat.

The track is not the point. Follows, stickers, comments, photos, messages. A place to stay in each other's days after you land.

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Vol mobile screens: a flight post, a share sticker, a pilot profile with heatmap, and logbook stats
Flight posts, stickers, heatmap, logbook.
The Vol explore feed, with a live flight post, map, and stats
Explore. Flights from people on the app today.
Zach Converse on Vol: cofounder, P4 and T3, flying since 2021
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How I build

One engineer. A lot of agents. A live product.

I still write code. I also run several agents at once. Cursor, cloud agents, Codex, Claude, SuperGrok, Amp Code. They implement, research, review, test, and debug. I decide what we are building, the shape of it, and what ships.

The interesting part is not the tool list. The tools will change. The interesting part is what happens when one person tries to operate a real web and mobile product this way, in production, with pilots using it.

I use machines so fewer humans are required to ship software. The software I'm building is about needing more humans in your life.

Elsewhere

  1. ServiceCore

    2024 - now

    Software

    I also write software at ServiceCore, a field-service product company.

  2. Floify

    2022 - 2024

    Software engineer

    Mortgage automation used by millions of borrowers.

  3. Stream

    2021 - 2022

    Software engineer

    I worked on Stream's open-source React Chat SDK, including accessibility and internationalization. Stream Chat is used by over a billion users.

    stream-chat-react
Composing a flight post on Vol

Outside

I paraglide, fly tandem, and travel to fly. I climb. Lately I'm on a foil as much as a wing: wing foil, dock starts, parawing, Foil Drive.