SAEROON
Founder
Kim Dong-geon

Kim Dong-geon

“In pursuit of the most accurate way to build for the web.”

Intro

Twenty-three years building the web

I first touched a computer in fifth grade. No one taught me, but I tuned Windows 98 through the night, and in my first year of middle school I took silver at a homepage design contest.

I've built websites for twenty-three years since. Founding an agency, building a shopping-mall platform, working in e-commerce development — through all of it I learned in my bones what a customer actually wants from a site. In 2024 I founded Saeroon, and now I'm turning that answer into a service.

These days AI draws the screen fast. What I take on is everything that gets that screen running without stalling — payments going through, members building up, data that sticks.

The journey

A path learned without a mentor — and then, a tool

Years of learning without a mentor

There was a team, but no mentor. I taught myself and passed it on to teammates — the ones learning grew fast while my own growth came slower, but I never strayed from building for the web. When self-teaching hit a wall, I started an open KakaoTalk room for developers, designers, and planners myself, keeping company with more than a hundred people, and ran offline study groups regularly.

The first mentor I met: AI

I paid for AI coding tools one by one and tried them myself, then wrote my first code with Claude. Since then, I write all code together with AI — fast, but I choose what stays.

The 2017 business plan

In 2017, I wrote this in a business plan — build homepages that small business owners can use with ease, gather the structures used most often into a frame, and go on to the more demanding fields. What Saeroon is building now is exactly that picture.

I closed what I had built

Once, by my own hand, I closed a site editor I had poured care into. A site that runs without stalling came before features that decorate the screen. Looking good lasts three days; real satisfaction comes from the part you don't see.

The bottom, and the answer

Once I set my main work aside and turned to investing, losing all my startup capital; at the company that followed, my health gave out and I stepped away from work for a while. At that bottom I learned — look away and the main work collapses, and with the right tools in hand, you can build again.

Now

I still wake up and pick up what I was building yesterday. Plan, verify, build again. Some nights run through to morning, but each day moves a step past the last.

Career

The path so far

Founder, Saeroon

2024 – Present

Building and operating a website hosting platform

Founder, Wakey

2025 – Present

Running an ad and revenue analytics SaaS

Web Developer, It's Us

2017 – 2021

E-commerce platform development and technical support

Founded an agency

2017

Website production agency / early shopping-mall model

Silver, homepage design contest

2003

Where web development began

Now

Saeroon Hosting

I build the site the customer wants, exactly as they want it. Shopping, booking, content, and members attach without code.

I don't build from scratch every time. I bolt on the working part I've already built and proven, so it goes live faster.

Visit the hosting platform
Contact

Just reach out

For project inquiries or anything you're curious about, feel free to email me.

Email [email protected]

I still do the building myself

When a commission comes in, I build from screen to workings and put it live. Write down the site you have in mind and send it — that's where the conversation starts.