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Travis Bumgarner
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Creating color palettes - @photopalettes.com

These are artifacts of my experiences learning, creating, and exploring. They're not always polished or completed, but they've shaped who I am today.

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Automating my job search with my own app 🙃
November 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Job seekers - Do you find browsing company pages to find relevant and recent job postings to be tedious and time consuming? I'm automating the entire process!

Check it out here: travisbumgarner.dev/marketing/cl...

PS - I'm looking for a new software role!

#jobsearch #jobs #automation
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I made Dice of Sending, for when your dungeon master wants you to roll online but you dislike digital dice. This was a goofy little project I worked on. It's fully open source and you can check it out here: github.com/TravisBumgar...

#dungeonsanddragons #tabletop #boardgames #trpg
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Built a prototype to better engineer the menu for a friend's restaurant.

Highlights:
- English and Spanish support
- Export PDF and CSVs
- No internet required

If you're interested in this or working together on something - reach out!

#buildinpublic #restaurants #menuengineering #menu
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Photo Palettes launches tomorrow on Product Hunt!

www.producthunt.com/products/pho...

Inspired by my photo series Seis Colores (seis.pointlessprojects.com), this became my biggest project yet: 9 designs · 306 tasks · 19,758 lines of code
October 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Sundays fundays. Building a bluetooth dice for Dungeons and Dragons
October 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Social media posts tedious? Not anymore!

This is my newest iteration on making social media posts easier for @photopalettes.com Now, I can use AI to generate some moderately popular tags specific to Instagram, Bluesky, and Twitter.

#socialmedia #buildinpublic #instagram #bluesky #twitter
October 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
September 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
new things coming soon.
September 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Experimenting with some auto generated posts for Instagram.

#buildinpublic #color #colorpalettes #design
September 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
@photopalettes.com is App Store approved for beta. 🔥

Beta invites coming soon!

#buildinpublic
September 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Continued design and experience improvements.

Before / After

#buildinpublic #design #colorpalettes
September 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
How it started vs how it's going.

Still work to do but making good progress.

#design #buildinpublic #color #colorpalettes #colors
September 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Looking for folks invested in hobbies to do mock interviews with. Painting, guitar, birding, dancing, whatever it may be. Working on a new #podcast exploring #failures, #successes, #inspiration, #motivation, and more. If interested, send a message!

#creativity #pasttime #pursuit #avocation #hobby
September 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
User testing is easy when you're also a user. However, you're "a user" and not "the user". Sometimes I forget. The result? Edge cases. A photo of a cat, poorly cropped. I'm excited for this new OG tag gracefully handles many more aspect ratios.

#buildinpublic #edgecases #design #userexperience
September 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
When the easy task to start the day becomes the entire day.

#buildinpublic #softwaredevelopment
September 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I originally put all of @photopalettes.com's functionality behind a login wall. This created a barrier to malicious actors but did the same for genuine traffic.

Now, you can try a lite version before signing up. The experience is live: photopalettes.com

#buildinpublic #marketing #topofthefunnel
September 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"At 10k lines is where the maximum magic is" - ThePrimeagen instagram.com/reel/DJUoZI8yqZK

This week I hit 10k lines for the first time with @photopalettes.com!

You can grab the line counting script here: gist.github.com/e0dd0f8530a8270da6e852cd294ddbd7

#buildinpublic
September 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
There's something so magical about the first few lines of a new feature. I'm queuing up the deep dive. I can feel the flow state coming.

#softwareengineering #buildinpublic
September 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
How it started.
August 31, 2025 at 9:05 PM
How it's going vs how it started. Check the first reply for a video of how it used to look. It's nice to see progress with my design capabilities.

@photopalettes.com #buildinpublic
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
@photopalettes.com runs on web and iOS as a single codebase! I moved my overly complicated #nextjs app to pure #reactjs. The only thing missing from #nextjs was dynamic OG tags so I wrote a little Express server to handle that. CapacitorJS made it easy to get up and running with iOS. #buildinpublic
August 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Pay attention when the voice in the back of your head is saying "this #code is too messy and it's making the task harder than it should be". That voice spoke loud this week so I took some time to standardize all my API endpoints. These changes will reduce attacks and errors.

#techdebt #cleancode
August 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I love when a project pushes past MVP and you can start to enhance functionality. Today's focus was on making the color picker for @photopalettes.com easier to use.

#buildinpublic #photopalettes #design #mvp
June 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM