I'm Brandon Ta, a solo builder in Ho Chi Minh City shipping small, honest software for online sellers and Mac users, and posting the real numbers as I go.
Shopify payout reconciliation — running in production, review round 2 submitted 12 October and waiting on Shopify
Next: Pass the Shopify App Store review so merchants can install it
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Self-serve software for merchants, agencies and bookkeepers in the US and UK. No onboarding calls — if it needs a call to work, it is not finished.
React Router 7, Polaris and Shopify's managed pricing. Payout reconciliation and chargeback evidence, built for the Shopify App Store.
Expo and React Native on iOS, Tauri on the Mac. Local-first wherever the data has no business leaving the machine.
Full-stack React, Node and TypeScript, with AI and LLM features shipped into production rather than demoed. Remote for US teams, async by default. Not WordPress, PHP or Angular.
Tech stack
What I build with — in the eleven products and in client work
Front end
Back end & data
AI & agents
Tooling & mobile
A tiny macOS menu-bar and notch app. Put your headphones in and Cue turns on Focus, blocks distracting sites and starts a timer. Take them out and it is break time. Free, no ads, no tracking.
Something new is in the works. More soon.
Auto-generated Open Graph images, a scanner that finds and fixes broken link previews, and short links with their own preview — checked on 30+ platforms.
Scan a WordPress or WooCommerce site for accessibility issues, fix what's fixable in its own HTML, and keep a dated log proving what changed. Not a JS overlay.
How to calculate real Etsy profit per order after listing, transaction, payment processing, shipping and ad fees, plus the mistakes that make a sale look better than it was.
A step-by-step method for matching one Shopify Payments payout to its orders, fees, refunds and the bank deposit, with the checks that catch what a spreadsheet misses.
The recurring reasons Shopify sales and QuickBooks Online deposits disagree, from batched payouts and fees to refunds, sales tax and timing, and a month-end routine for closing each gap.
