Founder  /  Builder

Brandon Hotka

Brandon Hotka builds software companies the way other people build habits — one after another, until it's simply what he does. One operator, a portfolio already live and earning, and a method for turning an idea into something people pay for before most founders finish the deck.

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Most people have the idea and stop there. Hotka ships.

01 — The Work

A portfolio,
not a résumé.

He doesn't build one thing and spend a decade defending it. He builds companies — a growing holding of software products, each one live, each one solving a real problem for people who pay to have it solved.

01

Buzzly

Scaling

Market intelligence for live commerce.

A research platform for Whatnot sellers — real-time trending data, price signals, and category intelligence, powered by a proprietary data engine that crawls the live market around the clock.

trybuzzly.com
02

Broadcast

Live

Email marketing that sounds like you.

An automated marketing engine for online stores — scheduled campaigns, behavior-triggered flows, and AI that drafts in your brand's voice. Set it once; it sends itself.

trybroadcastly.com
03

SupplyBridge

Live

Fulfillment on autopilot.

Connects storefronts to global suppliers and runs the entire fulfillment loop — orders in, product out, tracking back — without anyone touching a spreadsheet.

trysupplybridge.com
04

Slotly

Live

Bookings, built in.

Scheduling and appointments for online stores — real-time availability, calendar sync, and paid bookings that check out in seconds.

slotlyapp.com
05

Bundlr

Live

Sell more per order.

Product bundling that lifts average order value — smart discounts, revenue-safe by design, engineered so it never leaks a cent.

trybundlr.com
06

Retain

Live

Turn returns into revenue.

A returns platform that keeps the sale — exchanges and store credit over refunds, so a return becomes another order instead of a loss.

retainreturns.com
07

TrackNest

Live

Every order, tracked.

Order tracking that keeps buyers in the loop and cuts the 'where's my order?' emails to zero.

trytracknest.com
08

PackSlip

Live

Print-ready in one click.

Packing slips and order documents, clean and automatic — the unglamorous thing every store needs, done right.

getpackslip.com
02 — The Trajectory

Where this is going.

iHe's assembling an empire of software, one profitable product at a time, each one compounding on the last.

iiHe moves fast because hesitation is the only competitor that ever beats him. Ideas are cheap; shipping is the whole game.

iiiThe plan was never one big exit. It's a machine that keeps building, and keeps winning, long after any single bet pays off.

ivAnd none of it is the point on its own. He builds all of it for the few people he comes home to.

03 — The Why
Ask why the long days are worth it and the answer isn't the portfolio. It's the family the portfolio is for — the reason he starts early, and the standard he holds everything else to.
04 — Connect

If our paths
should cross.

Building something interesting, want to compare notes, or just found your way here — the door's open.

brandon@tryfound.io