Waygate Technologies, LLC / Boulder, Colorado
Waygate Tech builds consumer software and helps startups scale engineering. Home of Holler, the spontaneous hangout app for iPhone, and Grimoire, the local-first Markdown editor for Mac.
15 yrs engineering leadership 2 products in the wild 2 acquisitions, from the inside
An app for spontaneous hangouts. Send a holler about what you are doing, your friends see it in their feed, and anyone who wants in taps Going. That is the whole flow. Holler skips likes, follower counts, and location tracking entirely, so plans happen in real life instead of in a group chat.
App Store ↗ justhollerapp.com ↗A local-first Markdown editor. Your notes live as plain text files on your machine, with wikilinks, backlinks, full-text search, and a knowledge graph layered on top. Everything works offline, and there is no account required. Pro adds sync across devices and version history.
grimoirehq.com ↗Fractional CTO and engineering leadership for startups. Fifteen years of building systems that scale and teams that hold up under pressure, including engineering leadership through acquisitions at Zillow and Target and high-growth scaling at Minted. You get the experience without the full-time hire.
Zillow (RentJuice) / Target (Shipt) / Minted / Early-stage startups
Waygate Tech is Brian Seitel. One person, two products, and a consulting practice, all run from Boulder, Colorado.
Brian has spent fifteen years in the trenches with engineering teams, from scrappy startups through acquisitions at Zillow and Target to scaling organizations like Minted. Along the way he learned that great technology comes down to two things: systems that actually scale, and teams that thrive under pressure. Waygate Tech is where he applies both, to his own products and to yours.
Away from the keyboard you will find him on a long run along the Front Range or up in the mountains with a camera.
Waygate Tech (legally Waygate Technologies, LLC) is an independent software studio in Boulder, Colorado, founded by Brian Seitel. It builds consumer software and provides engineering leadership consulting for startups.
Two: Holler, an iPhone app for spontaneous hangouts with friends, available on the App Store, and Grimoire, a local-first Markdown editor for Mac, available at grimoirehq.com.
Yes. The studio offers fractional CTO services, technical strategy, system architecture, and team scaling for startups. Engagements are flexible, from a few advisory hours a month to hands-on leadership.
Email brian@waygatetech.co. The studio is based in Boulder and works with clients anywhere.
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Boulder, Colorado / Remote everywhere