A note from Paul.
This is the page where I talk like a person instead of a website.
I spent twenty years in IT, mostly inside big companies that have whole departments for the stuff I now do solo. What I noticed the entire time: the corner shops and one-room restaurants I actually loved going to had none of it. Their websites were broken or embarrassing. Their phones cost triple what they should. Nobody could tell them how they were doing on Google, so nobody did.
The industry gave those businesses two options: pay an agency more than rent, or do it yourself at midnight after close. Both options are bad. I started BitBrd because I kept watching good operators pick between them.
Here's what I can promise you that no bigger shop can: the person reading your email is the person who builds your site. There is no account manager. When something breaks on a Saturday, you text me and I fix it, because I'm the one who knows where everything is. I put it there.
I also can't take every client, and I won't pretend otherwise. If your project isn't a fit I'll say so on the first call and point you somewhere honest.
About me
I grew up in the suburbs south of Detroit, Michigan, and moved to Arkansas as a teenager. Over the years I lived in four different cities across central Arkansas, which is why you'll spot Little Rock businesses in our client list. I visited New Orleans more times than I can count, fell in love with the city the way everybody warns you you will, and finally relocated here in 2024.
On the technical side: I specialize in Elixir, its Phoenix web framework, and Astro. Less common tools, exceptionally good at their jobs. Elixir and Phoenix power real-time dashboards and systems that stay up for months without a restart; Astro builds the fastest websites you can ship. They're a big part of why our builds measure the way they do.
Before BitBrd, I spent two decades running this stuff at scale: large NetSuite deployments, Docker server farms, fleets of Raspberry Pis in the field, and dozens of POS systems, many of which I built custom integrations for or rolled out across large deployments. If your register, your kitchen screen, or your back office needs to talk to your website, odds are I've already wired that exact system somewhere.
Languages & platforms I build with POS systems I've integrated or deployed