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Grant, Wichita KS
Tell me what you’re working on

Your idea or your business, built and kept running by one person you can call.

I’m Grant Bellar, a software engineer in Wichita, Kansas.

Hi,

I’m Grant. I work with founders and small business owners who have hit the wall with software.

For some, it’s a first version of their idea, built with an AI tool, a no-code builder or your own code. It demos well, but it breaks when real people use it. For others, it’s the business itself: orders retyped from one system into another, or software that does most of what you need while the rest gets done by hand.

An agency will take months and put a project manager between you and the code. A freelancer from a marketplace is quick to hire, but you can’t tell if they’re any good until it’s too late.

With me, you work directly with the person doing the work. Before I suggest anything, I want to understand how your business runs and what’s costing you time. The first project is often small, like a weekly report you no longer put together by hand, or a checkout that keeps failing. If it goes well, we take on the next thing.

You own everything, including the code, the accounts and the data. I explain decisions in plain English, so you’re never stuck depending on me.

Grant Bellar
Founder, Sunnyside

Things I’ve built

Prototype

Board exam prep people pay for

The practice questions were written, but there was no way to sell them or give people access.

~5,000 questions, sold through Stripe since Feb 2024

What I built
Timed 100-question exams that predict your score, about 5,000 review questions, and checkout through Stripe.
What changed
People have been paying for it since February 2024. It’s on its third version now.
Rescue

Off no-code, onto one system

Seven separate tools shared one database, so every fix touched all of them.

23,664 records moved, plus 10,676 files, every one checked

What I built
One app to replace all seven tools, owned by the team. We moved over one piece at a time and checked every record and file.
What changed
All 23,664 records and 10,676 files made it across, and the old tools are shut off.
Automation

Following up with applicants automatically

Most applications were just an email and a resume, and recruiters chased every missing answer by hand.

48h to undo any automatic decline

What I built
Emails that ask applicants for whatever their application is missing. AI reads the replies. When someone clearly doesn’t fit, the system declines them, and a recruiter has 48 hours to undo it.
What changed
Recruiters spend their time on applicants who have already answered everything.
Automation

Catching fake applicants

Rings of fake applicants reused phones, emails and resumes, and recruiters lost hours to them.

101 of 7,571 applicants flagged high risk, no real hires among them

What I built
A risk score built from signals a person can check, like a phone number, email or resume that shows up on other applications. It flags likely fakes before anyone gets on a call with them.
What changed
It flagged 101 of 7,571 applicants as high risk. None of the people who were actually hired were flagged.
Custom tools

Invoices built from live data

Every month, someone built the invoices and vendor payments by hand in a spreadsheet.

0 records deleted in the switch, tested on production data first

What I built
A billing system that calculates invoices from live data and locks in the exchange rate. When hours change, the invoice updates to match.
What changed
I tested it against real production data before the switch. Nothing was deleted.
Data

From Word documents to a question bank

Questions, answers, explanations and sources lived in Word files with homemade formatting.

2,013 questions loaded, with the count matched at every step

What I built
Parsers that read the homemade formatting and turn it into quizzes. They check the question count after every step.
What changed
The first batches loaded 1,448 review questions and 565 exam questions, and every count matched.

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