Yuna Park
prototype welder // ceramic-keyboard tinkerer
"I bought a 3D printer before I had a desk to put it on. Worth it."
- 14 v0.1 launches
- 3 rituals hosted
Est. 2026 // Members Only
munju.club
A club for first movers. 먼저 -- the ones who try, break ground, and pioneer before the rest catch on. No spectators. Bring your weird ideas.
The manifesto of going first
Four lines. Read them out loud. If they make you nod, you're in the right place.
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Try it before it has a name.
If a thing doesn't have a category yet, that's not a warning sign -- that's the entry ticket. We get curious about the unfinished.
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Ship Tuesday, not someday.
Polish is downstream of motion. We celebrate v0.1 launches, dirty prototypes, and the courage to show your half-baked thing to a real human.
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Trade taste, not opinions.
Anyone can have a take. We swap recommendations -- the bookmark, the demo, the obscure tool, the one bakery, the one collaborator who changes your output.
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Going first is a habit, not a flex.
It's not about being early-loud, it's about being early-honest: trying, reporting back, and pulling the next person through the door behind you.
Member spotlight
A handful of munju.club members. Tier badges shown via geometric corner markers -- shape = rank.
- Pioneer
- Trailblazer
- Day-One
- Founder
Bilal Aydın
indie game weirdo // shader gardener
"Every game I love started as a thing my friends thought was too small."
- 8 demos shared
- 22 shaders traded
Sora Tanaka
type designer // fermentation lab admin
"My pickles and my type both want to be a little weird before they're useful."
- 6 typefaces
- 2 kombucha tiers
Marisol Vega
tools-for-thinking maker // first-mover archivist
"Every interesting tool was someone going 'wait what if' on a Saturday."
- 11 apps shipped
- 1 book in progress
Theo Okafor
community organizer // curious-person-finder
"The best meet-ups are seven people in a room nobody else booked yet."
- 19 meetups hosted
- 5 cities
Hana Choi
hardware hacker // weird-keyboard archivist
"My first prototype caught fire. The second one made it to a magazine."
- 27 boards designed
- 1 small fire
What members actually get
Less swag, more access. Bring your work-in-progress; leave with momentum.
Members directory
A real, searchable book of members with what they're building, what they want to try, and what they'd happily talk about for an hour.
First-look drops
Tools, beta invites, gear pre-orders, residencies, and odd opportunities -- routed to members 48 hours before they're public.
Tuesday demos
Weekly 30-minute show & tell. Three members, one v0.1 each, plus one "this is broken, help me fix it" slot.
Field reports
A members-only newsletter where we test the thing first and tell you if it's worth your weekend, your money, or your trip.
Co-build calls
Members request collaborators for a specific build. Shape-matched: tinkerers paired with shippers, designers with coders.
Year-one merch
A risograph zine, an enamel pin shaped like your tier, and one wildcard object mailed to your door each spring.
The rituals
A members year, in shapes. Show up to as many as you want -- skip the rest, no guilt.
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Every Tuesday
Show & Tell
30 minutes. Three demos. One ask. Online and on the schedule like a heartbeat.
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First Saturday
Field Trip
Members visit a strange place together: an old factory, a maker fair, a vending-machine alley. Notes get written up.
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Every Quarter
v0.1 Festival
Tiny launch festival. Members ship something brand-new in two weeks. We celebrate the bugs along with the wins.
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Once a Year
먼저 Day
An in-person, day-long gathering of members in one city. Talks, tools, dinner. A pin for everyone who shows.
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Apply to go first
Membership is by application, not invite-only and not first-come. We read everything. We reply within seven days. Annual dues are deliberately small.
- Send us a thing you've made -- finished or not.
- Tell us one habit you'd like to start.
- Recommend one weird tool, place, or idea.