Builder. Leader. Product maker.

I'm Dan Pettit, founder of Barefoot Apps. I build polished, opinionated apps for everyday moments: choosing what to play, understanding what is in front of you, remembering what matters, noticing more of a place, or getting back to something physical.

I have spent a long time as a builder and engineering leader, guiding teams through the real work of turning ideas into shipped products. That experience shows up here in the boring-important parts: scope, taste, technical judgment, sequencing, and follow-through.

The studio is intentionally small and product-focused. The public story is the products themselves: Analog DJ, Ricorda, Cocktail Menus, Neighborhood Crawl, and the ideas that will follow.

Barefoot Apps lets me bring the builder and leader parts of my background together: picking the right problem, shaping the product, making the engineering tradeoffs, and keeping the work close enough to the user that it stays honest.