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.
Most people have the idea and stop there. Hotka ships.
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.
Buzzly
ScalingMarket 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.comBroadcast
LiveEmail 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.comSupplyBridge
LiveFulfillment 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.comSlotly
LiveBookings, built in.
Scheduling and appointments for online stores — real-time availability, calendar sync, and paid bookings that check out in seconds.
slotlyapp.comBundlr
LiveSell more per order.
Product bundling that lifts average order value — smart discounts, revenue-safe by design, engineered so it never leaks a cent.
trybundlr.comRetain
LiveTurn 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.comTrackNest
LiveEvery order, tracked.
Order tracking that keeps buyers in the loop and cuts the 'where's my order?' emails to zero.
trytracknest.comPackSlip
LivePrint-ready in one click.
Packing slips and order documents, clean and automatic — the unglamorous thing every store needs, done right.
getpackslip.comWhere 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.
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.
If our paths
should cross.
Building something interesting, want to compare notes, or just found your way here — the door's open.