Nick Reese's Projects

Nick Reese's Projects

20+ years of building stuff. A look back at some of the projects along the way.

PewDB

2026-Present

A comprehensive database for firearms-related entities — think BroadbandNow, but for the firearms industry. Bringing transparency and data to a fragmented market.

Advising & Angel Investing

2025

Startup advising, angel investing, and building with AI. Helped save a friend's company from bankruptcy pro bono — a reminder that the best work often comes from showing up for people you believe in.

The Family Project

2024

In 2024, we made the family the project. We went around the world with the kiddos — 50+ days on cruise ships, 3 continents, 9 countries, countless memories. My son said he wanted to see penguins, so we went to see penguins in person. Surf lessons? Done. It was our "YES" year, and it was awesome.

GoAndorra

2023-2024

The one that got away. I scanned the entire country of Andorra with a 360 streetview camera, built my own Google Street View, and created a search engine for the country. 260,000 high-resolution panoramas and 18 months of work later, our family decided to move back to the US after traveling the world. Sometimes great projects don't fit the life you're building.

Find Energy

2021-2023

At Find Energy we're out to bring transparency to the energy industry. Easily look up the emissions, production, and sales data for all of the electric companies in the US. We also show you availability, average monthly bill and so much more.

Elder.js

2020-2023

Elder.js is an opinionated SEO focused static site generator for Svelte. Initially it was used to build ElderGuide.com. Instead of keeping it private I decided to open it up to help others. This site used to run on Elder.js — now it runs on Boom, an internal framework.

Elder Guide

2020-2023

Crunching more than 2 billion rows of government data to help families make informed decisions around senior care.

Business Internet

2017-2018

Businesses searching for business internet service have a unique set of problems. This tool is streamlined to help make their lives easier.

BroadbandNow

2014-2018

Easily Research, Compare, and Shop Internet Service in Your Neighborhood. So far we've crunched over 1,000,000,000 (that is a billion) rows of data to make this site possible.

Skip Winter Conference

2012 & 2013

A life changing annual retreat and mastermind for entrepreneurs in a warm location.

PhotoDropper

2012-2017

A WordPress plugin to find Creative Commons or stock photos for your website. This WordPress plugin has been used on over 130,000 sites.

Met My Wife

2012

Not really a project, but it's not every day you meet the girl of your dreams. The photo above is from the day we met. #partnerInCrime #soulmate

TaxReceipts.com

2011-2012

A tool to help small businesses and freelancers simplify their bookkeeping come tax season.

Traffic and Trust

2011

How to Turn Traffic and Trust into Sales was created as a plain English guide to affiliate marketing. It's a little dated now, but in 2011 it was "before it's time."

Microbrand Media

2009-2019

A company built with long time friend and business partner Duane Anderson. Between 2009 and 2019 we built 14 web assets ranging from tiny affiliate plays to major startups.

Auto Loan Business

2007-2014

A business I started with my Dad while I was in college (in addition to Gwun). During it's years we've helped over 150k people with bad credit get auto loans while cutting out the loan sharks.

Gwun

2006-2010

Absurdly effective email marketing for real estate. This was the freelancing business that I started under a bunk bed in a fraternity house. In 4 years I scaled this business to 100k/year, served over 400 realtors and marketed thousands of luxury properties. This was the training ground that started it all.

T-Shirt Company

2005-2006

We made fun college t-shirts, shutdown 9 months in due to legal issues. I lost my shirt, both literally and figuratively.

Published: 2020-09-02