Overview
About Me
Who I am, how I think about building, and what I hope comes from the products I create.
ByColby Reichenbach
Who I Am & My Background
My name is Colby Reichenbach, and I am the sole developer of AiBS. At my core, I am both a passionate baseball fan and a data nerd.
I spent about 13 years of my life playing baseball: travel ball, school ball, Little League, and just about everything in between. For a long stretch of my life, baseball was everything. Even when I was not playing, I was watching. During my time at UNC-Chapel Hill, I made countless trips to the Bosh just to catch games and stay close to the sport.
My interest in data, especially data science, really took shape during my senior year of college, which led me to minor in it. After graduation, I became much more deeply involved in AI and started using it as a tool to build intelligent analytical products.
To me, data should be accessible to everyone, regardless of background. AI makes that more possible. AiBS was built from that belief, and from my passion for baseball, data, and making complex information easier to understand. A non-baseball fan should be able to open this app and use the AI tools to understand the context behind what they are seeing. A baseball fan who is not especially technical should be able to ask a question and get a useful visual back. If they still need more clarity, follow-up questions should help them go deeper. Everything here was built with the user in mind.
Identity Crisis
What Would I Classify Myself As?
Truthfully, I am still figuring that out.
I am well versed across the broader data stack, and I still do not know exactly what I like best or where I fit best. At times, it feels a little like an identity crisis, but in a productive way. I enjoy building machine learning models. I enjoy designing polished, visually compelling frontends. I enjoy engineering backends and analytical pipelines that move data from raw systems into something useful for real people.
That is one of the reasons AiBS means a lot to me. It is a product that genuinely reflects the range of how I like to work. It showcases my ability to build across the stack, from using AI throughout my development workflow, to building user-facing AI tools, to engineering analytical pipelines that monitor those systems, to automating data ingestion and model auditing in a stable way.
The Future
What Am I Looking For?
In a perfect world, one of the products I build would grow into something I could eventually sell, whether through a subscription model or through acquisition.
I genuinely enjoy building. There is something special about owning a product end to end and shaping every part of it exactly the way I envision it. At the same time, the more experience I get as a solo developer, the more I understand how difficult it is to build everything alone. Many of my projects end up under-shared. I have never really been a social media personality, and marketing my own work has never come naturally to me.
More than anything, I hope naturally curious builders find this product, regardless of domain, and reach out because they want to build together. Maybe someone at a company sees this work and thinks I would fit well with the kind of problems they are solving. That is always a conversation I would be happy to have.
Closing
Thank You for Reading
If you are reading this, thank you for taking the time to learn a little more about who I am and for exploring something I built. I genuinely appreciate your curiosity.
I am always open to connecting, and I would be glad to hear from you. I hope you enjoy the product.
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