Travis Russi
Developer, Marketer, Entrepreneur, Adventurer
I love managing the technical complexities of rapid product development. I love formulating marketing messages that make prospects crave a product. I love finding clever and efficient ways to get to market faster, cheaper. I try new things, take risks, break things, and grow with each experience.
Developer
As a full-stack developer, I get heads-down into the production coder ‘zone’ and own product delivery from database, to API, to third-party integrations, to web UI, to native mobile applications.
Marketer
As a marketer, I clearly articulate the problem, identify an audience longing for a solution, and deliver a compelling solution with crystal clear call-to-actions.
Entrepreneur
As an entrepreneur, I can embrace a vision, break it into tangibles, and execute with ferocity that drives to measurable outcomes. It’s about moving fast, getting product into customers hands quickly and closing the feedback loop to iterate into product-market fit.
Adventurer
As an adventurer, I’m always willing to try something new! Two months in Pakistan at 16. Two months in Nepal at 18. Started skiing at 22 months. Climbed El Capitan in Yosemite. Spent a year exploring Europe in a 1972 camper. Bought a 35′ sailboat with no sailing experience.
Shipped Products
Over the years, I’ve worked on a lot of different products.
Here are some of the more interesting ones that actually shipped.
Free Your Form
Simplify the process of capturing form submission data across many diverse web sites. Web application is live.
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Simple Deal
No typing, no maps, no camera. Just point at a restaurant location and gain instant access to all deals and offerings being made available to you… At that exact moment.
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StuffHub
Sell used items through the Facebook platform without having to write a description or take a picture of the item. Just search and post. Fastest way to sell used stuff.
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Easy Typer
Hunt and peck typing made easy. Bring your monitor to your fingertips using your mobile device. See what you’re typing, as you type. Zoom the screen up to 5x.
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Projects That Haven’t Shipped
As much as I’d like to say that all my projects make it across the finish line,
the nature of my work is that some don’t.
Flow Rocket
Project management solution based on dynamic workflows that could accomodate ad-hoc changes as projects evolved over time. Prototype was built, but never publicly launched.
Dealette
Leveraging a lucrative piece of the credit card transaction infrastructure that our Client had rights to. Only made it to the very early planning stages.
Wampum
Color-coin implementation built on top of the bitcoin blockchain. Built a prototype of a color-aware mobile wallet using Xamarin for iOS, but was never publicly released.
Easy Agent Promo
Marketing automation platform for real estate professional that generated videos and landing pages. Launched in 2012, but not currently live.
Kiss Framework
An ASP.Net starter project to make starting a new project easier. Feature complete, but not publicly released.
Prop Builder
Proposal management solution for large-scale federal proposals. Mock-ups were created, but a prototype was never built.
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. Russell Simmons
Interesting Clients I’ve Worked With
Marketing Projects
Some of the projects I’ve worked on were experimenting with interesting approaches
to market or position existing service offerings.
XKLaunch
Explored a unique way to fund early-stage startups using a fixed-fee pricing model to build out an initial MVP.
FounderLess
Challenging the assumption that products need founders. Working on model for highly subsidized SaaS products.
Dabble Lab
Worked on a productized service offering to help early stage entrepreneurs get from idea to MVP faster.