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Travis W.

@Traviticus
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Staff engineer with 12+ years building data pipelines and automation at scale. After building the same patterns over and over - sync this to that, filter these records, notify when X happens - I realized most of it could be described in a sentence. Building Flywheel to make that work.

Background: data pipelines handling 270M+ messages/month, microservices architecture, cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS). Led engineering teams. Now channeling all of it into making automation setup stupidly simple.

Sharing the build in public.

What are you working on

Skills/Interests: Automation • Data Pipelines • SaaS • Building in Public • AI/ML

  • Flywheel
    Live (early alpha)

    Data pipelines for startups. Connect your sources, set up syncs, see real-time metrics. Free to start.

  • Hexaverse
    On Pause

    Collaborative hex canvas - like r/place but with hexagons. Real-time multiplayer drawing on an infinite hex grid. Started as a civ-style game prototype, turned into a community art experiment.

Articles

  • Flywheel: A Complete Facelift
  • See Your Entire Pipeline in One View

Recent activity

  • Commented onGrowing the first AI-native financial DaaS to a 7-figure ARR2026-01-14
  • PostedI Deleted 5,600 Lines of Code I Spent Weeks Building2026-01-14
  • Commented onWhy Building in Public Changed My SaaS Journey Forever2026-01-14
  • Commented onWhy Building in Public Changed My SaaS Journey Forever2026-01-14
  • Commented onLearning to code and building a $28k/mo portfolio of SaaS products2026-01-12
  • PostedI structured my codebase for AI. Now I ship in hours.2026-01-12
  • Commented onThe Five-Foot Zone2026-01-12
  • Commented onWe built a terminal-style SaaS UI on purpose. Here’s why.2026-01-12
  • Commented onWhat 2025 taught me about growing a bootstrapped SaaS to $110K/MRR (WP Umbrella)2026-01-11
  • Commented onGo solo or find a partner?2026-01-11
  • Commented onFrom $0 to $62k MRR in three months2026-01-11
  • Commented onThe Five-Foot Zone2026-01-10

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