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Doug Silkstone

Hogsend

Lifecycle messaging for software teams

Founder & CTO · Built the product, journey engine and cloud platform

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Hogsend lets software teams automate onboarding, customer messaging and retention in TypeScript rather than a visual workflow builder. The founder and CTO role covered the whole product: strategy, design, the journey engine, developer tools, cloud infrastructure and launch.

  • Built lifecycle marketing as code, with journeys reviewed in pull requests and tested before release.
  • Shipped the TypeScript development kit, journey engine, automated tests, Studio, command-line tools and MCP tools.
  • Built journeys that survive restarts, provider failures and releases while running for days or weeks.

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hogsend.com
#typescript#react#nextjs#nodejs#postgres#hatchet#lifecycle#attribution#docker#railway
Doug Silkstone

WithSeismic

Independent product engineering and growth

Founder · Scoped, built and supported 100+ client engagements

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WithSeismic is an independent product-engineering business that builds software, analytics and marketing automation for client teams. As founder and sole operator, the role spans finding the commercial problem, scoping the work, designing and building the solution, and supporting it after launch.

  • Delivered 100+ product-engineering engagements over 10 years for clients including Framer, The Motley Fool, Groupon, Contra and Weedmaps.
  • Scoped, priced, delivered and supported every technical build independently.
  • Runs a fixed ten-business-day, £12,000 Revenue Loop Sprint that finds one material commercial leak and ships one corrective system into production.

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withseismic.com
#typescript#react#nextjs#nodejs#python#llms#aws#gcp#postgres
Brian TigheHead of Technology @ The Motley Fool

Doug is a pro. I'd hire him again for any future marketing & technology initiatives.

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Doug Silkstone

Benson

Coupon-extension and AI-agent control for ecommerce

Founder & technical lead · Rebuilt and relaunched in ten days with AI agents

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Benson shows online stores which coupon extensions and AI shopping agents are in their sessions and what they cost, then lets them hide, cap or replace them with a holdout behind every change. The founder and technical lead role covered building, operating and selling the original getBenson platform, then reacquiring the brand and rebuilding it for the relaunch at trybenson.com.

  • Rebuilt Benson from an empty repository to a public relaunch at trybenson.com in ten days, against an original roadmap of 14 to 18 weeks.
  • Wrote the product as 44 PRDs and ran the build as an orchestrator, with AI agents delivering each task through tests, adversarial review and simplification: 836 commits and 785 test files in under two weeks.
  • Shipped ten apps and fifteen packages: a 2.5KB storefront loader, ingest on Redis Streams, Postgres with row-level security, a dashboard, an embedded Shopify admin, a WooCommerce plugin, a Cloudflare edge detector and an MCP server.

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trybenson.comHow Benson was rebuilt
#typescript#react#nextjs#nodejs#hono#postgres#llms#architecture#zerotoone#attribution#ecommerce#growth
Doug Silkstone

Vouchernaut

Automated voucher-discovery platform

Founder & sole operator · Built the platform and SEO acquisition

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Vouchernaut was a voucher-discovery website that brought retailer offers together on automatically generated brand pages. As founder and sole operator, the role covered the data collection, website and search acquisition, turning a large catalogue of affiliate offers into a business that could run without a content team.

  • Built and operated a programmatic-SEO voucher platform for six years at 90% margins.
  • Automated offer data for 100,000+ brands into landing pages.
  • Reached 250K sessions a month with no paid spend or content team.
#typescript#nextjs#nodejs#puppeteer#postgres#seo#growth#ecommerce