Founder, Buffalo NY
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Born in Buffalo in 2003. I started in business, taught myself to code, and now build companies here. I write about Buffalo, building small, and the work behind Buffalo Projects and Strelva.
Latest essay·4 min read
43North made ambition credible here. Now the cost of trying has collapsed, and Buffalo should measure itself by what exists on Wednesday that didn't on Monday.
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A place for people in Buffalo to show what they're building, find each other, and make local work easier to see.
Websites and software for businesses. The work that repeats becomes products other teams can use.
I don't have to leave to build.
Buffalo isn't something to work around. It's where I'm from, and it's full of people, businesses, and problems worth my attention.
Be specific enough to be wrong.
Say what it does, who it helps, and what happens next. Then build it and let reality edit the thesis.
The person using it is the point.
I care about work that gives people more time, ability, or choice. Capability without a human on the other end is just a demo.
New tools should change the work.
When something gets dramatically easier, the answer isn't doing the old process faster. It's redrawing the process around the outcome.
If you're visiting Buffalo, start here. Go on a weeknight and tell them I sent you.
If you're building something in Buffalo, or want Strelva to build it with you, write to rhinehart514@gmail.com. Code lives on GitHub, the rest on LinkedIn.