Patrick Bollenbach

Projects

Things I've built and still run.

Recipe Kit

Shopify app

Shoppable recipe cards for Shopify stores. Food brands build a recipe in a drag-and-drop editor, ingredients link straight to products, and customers add the whole list to cart in one click. 1,300+ stores, 250K+ recipes, 10M+ views.

Jetson

SaaS

Support tickets go in, product decisions come out. It reads Help Scout, Zendesk or Intercom, separates the real bugs and feature requests from the noise, and files them to GitHub or Linear with the customer's own words attached.

Cuento

Community

Book club matchmaking for Vancouver. You pick the genres and books you like, and you get five or six nearby readers who meet at a local cafe. $15, once, and only if you actually get matched.

Better Blog Comments

Shopify app

Shopify blogs get a real comment section. Threaded replies, moderation, email notifications, star ratings, spam protection. About two minutes to install.

Wait.li

Shopify app

Referral-powered waitlists for Shopify launches. Customers sign up, share a link to climb the list, and get first access when stock lands.

Recon

Shopify app

Finds the people copying your store. Clones, typosquatted domains, phishing pages, and pre-written DMCA notices and one-click abuse reports to shut them down. It scans 1,500+ TLDs.

RunClubs.ca

Directory

Canada's largest directory of free running clubs: 260+ across 9 cities, filterable by day, pace and neighbourhood. It became the place people go to find a group run. I still haven't worked out how to make it a business.

Vancouver Community

Directory

40+ categories of social groups, clubs and meetups around Vancouver. I built it because this city can feel impossible to make friends in. Readers add the listings, which is what keeps it current.