Travis Bollenbach

travisbollenbach.com

Independent software builder.

AI-focused. Self-taught. Shipping constantly.

I've spent the last three years teaching myself to build by building — no CS degree, no ML research background. Just three years of hands-on, self-directed work, most of it public. GitHub tells the pace: 80+ self-directed projects, several new ones most weeks.

Travis Bollenbach crouched beside his dog on a stone wall

Travis — and his QA department

What this is — and isn't

What I bring

  • One person who ships working software end to end: frontend, backend, deployment.
  • AI woven into real products — agents, bots, business tools, content pipelines — using existing models and APIs.
  • Fast, because I build with AI tools myself. You can watch the pace on GitHub.

What I’m not

  • Not a PhD or an ML research lab — I don't train models from scratch.
  • Not a big team — I'm one builder, so scope accordingly.
  • Not vaporware — every service below links to shipped, working code.

Services

What I build, grounded in what’s actually shipped.

01

AI agents & companions

Custom LLM-backed agents with persistent memory, personality, and a measure of autonomy — built to run standalone, in a chat window, or on Discord.

02

Discord bot development

Full bot platforms, not single-command scripts: moderation, roles, voice, multi-bot fleets, and a dashboard to run it all from.

03

Small business software + AI

Real business logic — quoting, shop management, client portals, health tracking — with an AI layer wired into the workflow, not bolted on after.

04

Interactive 3D & web experiences

Three.js-built browser worlds: multiplayer environments, physics sandboxes, procedural generation — the kind of thing this very site is built from.

05

AI content & video pipelines

The newest line of work: end-to-end pipelines that turn a prompt into a finished video — script, narration, image or video generation, stitched and delivered to YouTube.