Send it
Bug, tweak, or brand-new feature — send it in anytime. It becomes a tracked request the moment it arrives, and you can watch its status the whole way.
A one-person software studio
Reported at breakfast.
Live by lunch.
Shortbird builds and maintains software with turnaround measured in hours, not sprints. Senior craftsmanship, an AI‑accelerated pipeline, and every change fully reviewed and tested before it reaches production.
One ticket, one morning
how a request moves, hour by hour
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9:14 am
Reported
“Checkout is failing on saved cards.” Ticket opened, client notified.
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9:31 am
Agent drafting
An AI agent writes the patch in minutes, on a branch, with tests.
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10:05 am
Human review
I review the agent’s work and test it against the real product.
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10:40 am
Staging approved
Client clicks through the fix on a staging link and signs off.
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11:02 am
Live in production
1h 48m from report to deploy.
0yrs
building production software
0%
of agent work reviewed & tested by me
1
person to talk to. Ever.
Process
Three steps. No tickets lost,
no sprints to wait for.
Built with AI leverage, reviewed by me
Speed from the machines, judgment and accountability from a senior engineer.
You approve, it ships
You get a staging link (usually within hours). Nothing touches production without your go-ahead. Say the word and it’s live.
What I build
Web apps & MVPs
From idea to a product your first customers can use — in weeks, not quarters.
Internal tools
Dashboards, admin panels, and automations that fit how your team actually works.
Integrations
Stripe, Supabase, CRMs, email — the plumbing between your services, done right.
Ongoing care
A retainer that means your software has a person. Issues fixed in hours, forever — and with automated crash reports, I often ship the fix before you’ve noticed the problem.
Selected work
Small studio. Real products.
Live product
Optio
An education platform where students build self-validated diplomas through quests — evidence portfolios, XP, an AI tutor. Designed, built, and run end-to-end.
Live product
Dub
Tournament bracket picks with friends — fill out a bracket, earn points on every correct call, climb the leaderboard. Shipped to the App Store and Google Play.
Ongoing care
Sites & internal tools
A portfolio of production websites and web apps under active management — plus the school automations that saved staff dozens of hours every week.
Who’s behind Shortbird
A decade teaching computer science.
A doctorate in how people learn it.
Shortbird is Dr. Tanner Bowman — a former high school computer science teacher of ten years and the school’s automation engineer, where the internal tools he built saved staff dozens of hours every week.
Ten years of programming experience: apps published on the App Store and Google Play, and a portfolio of production websites and web apps under active management. The teaching habit stuck — expect clear explanations, not jargon.
- Doctorate Educational Technology
- M.S. Instructional Design
- B.S. Information Technology
- B.S. Technology & Engineering Education
Kind words
“We’ve worked with dozens of programmers over the years. Even with AI tools, other devs would quote us 2–3 weeks for small changes. We hired Shortbird and get rapid iteration — sometimes multiple changes per day! One dev shop quoted us an 18‑month timeline for what we wanted, and it happened in 4 months with Shortbird.”
“Wow! You’re fast! It takes me a lot longer to figure out what I want or what needs to be changed than it does for you to implement the changes!”
“Platform was SO easy and organized! The process was actually so nice! Very organized and easy to use.”
“Using the app was so easy and very nice.”
Have something that needs
to exist by Friday?
Tell me what you’re building — or what’s broken. You’ll hear back within minutes.
hello@shortbird.dev