Buford

Casting Call Club: Scam Warnings in Messages

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

If someone wants to move this to Telegram/Discord, slow down You know the one. Someone loves your voice, they've got a huge project, the pay is great, and could you please continue this on Telegram/Discord? Then it's a "what's your bank account" even before they hear your voice and then it's gift ca

Casting Call Club: Phone app version 1.0.14 is live

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Version 1.0.14 is rolling out on iPhone and Android. Some of this you asked for, some of it was me fixing my own mess. 🖼️ Project cover images: Owners can set a cover right from the phone. 👉 Swipe to mark read: Swipe a notification and it's read. Satisfying. Like bubble wrap popping. 🎬 Video auditio

Casting Call Club: Label Cleanup

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

So the filters were pretty ugly after about a year of people typing in random stuff and the data getting really messy. So today I went in and cleaned up a bunch of things. Keep in mind that labels are type-in fields. That means they all come from you. I periodically go through these labels and merge

Shosay: Autosave while editing

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Capture form and survey editors save as you work. Neat, huh?

Shosay: Widget Embeds are HELLA fast

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

To render one widget on your site, an embed downloaded all 27 widgets, the wall renderer, all twelve wall themes, and every line of CSS the studio and the marketing pages and the capture forms need, including the editor styles for an editor the page doesn’t have. Then it rendered one widget. It now

Shosay: Another Brick in the Wall

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The wall editor now shows a live preview beside the settings, so you see the real wall as you change it. Same as the capture form, survey and widget editors. New walls also open much faster. Widgets got five more color controls: text, card background, highlight and highlight text, on top of the back

Shosay: Surveys

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Ask questions, like google forms Surveys are a new item in the sidebar, under Capture Forms. Build a list of questions, share the link, and respondents answer one screen at a time. At the end you can send them into the video, audio or text testimonial flow, and the proof arrives in your inbox attach

Closing Credits: Course chat is here. Bye Discord

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Every course now has its own room. Class ends, the Zoom window closes, and the question you actually wanted to ask arrives about four minutes later. 💬 One room per cohort. Hang out with people in your class. Yah! 🙋 Mentions. Type @ and pick a person, or use @staff when you need a teacher. 📌 Pinning.

Buford: One changelog for everything

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

So if you wanted to know what I do in public, you'd have to open 3-5 websites, like an animal. They're one list now at buford.bg/changelog . Casting Call Club, Shosay, and Closing Credits get pulled straight out of their own JSON, so it's pretty much verbatim. I write the Buford entries by hand.

Buford: buford.bg started

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Rebuilt my personal site from scratch. There was nothing wrong with the old one, but I was bored at the dog park. The three.js background is lifted straight off the Nouscraft book page. You should really be reading that website, not this one. Buy my books! Anyway, this site replaces siliconvict.com,

Casting Call Club: NOTES and Select and Copy andotherstuff on the mobile app

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Stop retyping things off your own screen Some things are so small nobody notices them until the moment they're needed, and then they're the only thing you can think about. Selecting text was one of those. You'd be halfway through a project description with a Discord invite sitting right there in it,

Casting Call Club: The Casting Call Club App

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Your whole casting life, now in your pocket Casting doesn't wait for you to get back to your computer. So I built the real thing: a proper native app, not that crappy mobile web stuff. It's out now on iPhone and Android. 📱 Actually native: Built from scratch for phones. Fast, gesture-friendly, dark

Buford: Warden

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Scout and Bugsnag wanted $2k a month to tell me about Casting Call Club. I nope'd out of that and built my own. It's better this way because first off, I have unlimited requests on my own app, so no sampling. Two, any error that pops up on Warden gets processed and automatically turned into a pull r

Buford: Mogul

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000

I built a clone of Google Analytics today because I hate Google Analytics. It's 33% more accurate than GA because of various technical reasons I'm not going to get into. I could have just paid for something off the shelf, like Plausible. I built it instead, which is a personality defect. It's also w

Casting Call Club: AND OR search filters.

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Cast a wider net — or a narrower one Project search just learned the difference between "and" and "or." Pile up multiple skills, accents, languages, or any other filter, and a small And / Or toggle pops up next to it. Pick And to match projects that need every single one of those things. Pick Or to

Closing Credits: Past Events - now actually findable!

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Lots of people have been asking about past events and where they can find the recordings for them. I've always been like, "it's in the past events tab!" And they were like, "Okay, but where is that?" And I was like, "It's.....wow, it's hidden under 10 different clicks." And then they were like :disa

Shosay: One input box to rule them all

Wed, 27 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Paste any URL. We’ll try to figure it out from there. Import used to be a choose-your-own-adventure — separate buttons for Twitter, LinkedIn, “manual entry”, a couple of others. Cute, but if you didn’t know which one to click you were a little stuck. So we collapsed it. Now there’s just one box. Pas

Casting Call Club: Just kidding about Shortlist Badge

Mon, 18 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

In an incredible display of "not knowing what the hell I'm doing", I misinterpreted what people really wanted. People wanted the Shortlist badge, but only after the role was closed or the project deadline had passed. Thanks for setting me straight. I went ahead and fixed it. I'm sorry. I'm so, so so

Casting Call Club: Shortlist Badge

Fri, 15 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Shortlist now appears on the submission row Here ye! Here ye! Lots of people asked for this feature: https://www.castingcall.club/mods/feedback/show-shortlisted-blue-badge-on-dismissed-auditions And now it is so.

Casting Call Club: Teams

Thu, 14 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

You don't have to run the whole show by yourself Casting a big project alone is a lot. Now you can invite trusted teammates to help — co-directors, assistant casting, that one friend who's freakishly organized — and they'll get the same management powers you do: reviewing submissions, sorting bucket

Closing Credits: Certificates - now actually works!

Thu, 14 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Certificates — the proof you finished the thing, now actually works! Course completion certificates got the once-over. If you've already earned one, the new version is waiting for you under your existing certificate link. What changed: The dates are right now. Previously some certificates were quiet

Shosay: Pokemon types

Mon, 11 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Same idea, much less duct tape Tags used to be like writing “talent” on a sticky note and slapping it on a proof. Stick that label on fifty proofs and you’ve got fifty independent sticky notes. Want to rename them all to “candidate” later? Hope you’ve got the afternoon free. Labels work the way you’

Casting Call Club: Add to Calendar

Sun, 10 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Project deadlines, straight in your calendar We can now email you an .ics calendar invite for a project's deadline. Open the email in Gmail, Apple Mail, or Outlook and you'll see a one-tap "Add to Calendar" button — no copy-paste, no fiddling with date pickers. Useful when you're juggling several pr

Shosay: Walls of Love

Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

A whole new way to share your social proof Widgets are great for slotting testimonials onto your existing site. But sometimes you just want a single beautiful URL you can drop in a sales deck, an email signature, or a DM. So we built Walls of Love — full-page hosted galleries of your proofs. Pick fr

Shosay: Built-in Changelog & Feedback

Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The old setup was an external Canny board that nobody wanted to log into. So we built our own. Submit feature requests or bug reports at /feedback , vote on the ones you want, and discuss in the comments. Drag-drop up to 5 screenshots per post. Authors can edit their own posts while they’re still un

Shosay: Eight new widgets

Mon, 04 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The library doubled, basically We doubled the widget catalog: List , Quote Grid , Bubble List , Highlights (scrolling soundbites strip), Image Gallery (masonry of imported tweet/LinkedIn screenshots), Rating Badge (inline pill, distinct from the floating one), Single Testimonial (one hand-picked car

Closing Credits: Hey, give me feedback on this ....uhhh, feedback board.

Mon, 04 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Closing Credits now has a public feedback board at /feedback . It's the place to suggest features, report bugs, vote on the things you most want, and watch them progress (or, more honestly, watch them sit in "under review" while we argue about them). www.closingcredits.com/feedback What you can do t

Shosay: Zine-style redesign across the app

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Big chunky borders. Hand-written section labels. Washi tape. We redesigned the in-app experience in a zine / scrapbook aesthetic. Cards have 3px black borders and offset drop shadows. Section labels are a handwritten font in a bright color. Display type is Bricolage Grotesque. Widgets and walls now

Closing Credits: Notifications, v1 — the bell icon you didn't ask for but secretly wanted

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

You now have a notifications inbox at Closing Credits. It is, in the proudest tradition of the genre, a list of things that happened that you might want to know about. Here's what we're celebrating: An actual inbox. When a course you follow opens for enrollment, when a brand-new course launches, whe

Casting Call Club: In-house Feedback board

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Say something you think would fit We've replaced our old feedback tool with a built-in feedback board at /feedback. Submit feature requests or bug reports, vote on the ones you want to see, and discuss them in the comments. No logging into some other system!! You can attach screenshots to make bug r

Closing Credits: Profiles (version 1)

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

You now have a profile! Head to What's New → Profile in the user menu (or visit /profile ) to fill it in. What's in this first version: Username — your unique handle (3-30 chars, lowercase letters, numbers, dashes, or underscores). Your public profile lives at /profiles/ . About + interest

Casting Call Club: Custom Profile Covers

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Make your profile uniquely yours Premium members can now upload a custom cover image for their profile. Head to your profile, click "Edit Cover Photo," and you'll see a new "Upload your own" tab alongside the existing preset designs. Your custom cover also shows up subtly as a blurred background on

Casting Call Club: Redesigned Email Preferences

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Clearer control over every email we send The Settings page got a major overhaul. Email preferences are now organized by message stream - Activity & Notifications, Newsletters, Onboarding, Billing, and Education. Each stream has a master toggle that overrides the individual notification toggles withi

Casting Call Club: Submission Buckets

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Organize auditions your way Project owners can now create custom buckets to organize submissions. Think of them like folders - create buckets like "Callbacks," "Top Picks," or "Maybe Later" and drag submissions into them. Each bucket gets its own color, and you can filter your submissions view by bu

Casting Call Club: Omnisearch Improvements

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

One search bar to find everything We completely rebuilt the search experience. The search bar in the navigation now takes you to a dedicated search results page that shows Members, Projects, and Credits all at once. Results are grouped into three sections with quick-filter tabs to narrow down by typ

Buford: Nouscraft World 3: First Past the Post published

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Book three is out. That's the trilogy done. I'm definitely going to take time off between this and writing the next one even though I'm bursting with ideas. The marketing is the hard part and I need to understand Amazon's monstrous ecosystem a bit more. I'll be running experiments when the audiobook

Buford: Accidentally emailed Brendan 70,000 times

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

A job that was supposed to send one email to one person sent seventy thousand emails to one person. That person was Brendan. Brendan was extremely nice about it.

Casting Call Club: The Great unblockening

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Some people wake up and choose chaos. Recently, that chaos was a DDOS attack that really wanted to ruin my week. In a panic, I had to block several countries entirely. This was, it must be said, rather unfair to the nice people there who just wanted to audition for things and had nothing to do with

Buford: Nouscraft World 2: Royale published

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Book two is out on Kindle. I used two editors (line and developmental) for this book and while I do think it made for a better book, it really slowed things down. I'm going to try book three with one fewer editor to test the waters.

Buford: Litizens started

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

I called it ficfolk at first and I'm still thinking of doing that. It's the next thing I'm going to build properly, once Shosay is where it needs to be. It's an audiobook centric website as a natural companion to CCC. I have a non-functional demo available here: https://litizens.bufr.co/ (you might

Buford: nouscraft.com

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

The Nouscraft site is up. Go check it out.

Casting Call Club: Talent Search

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Search across every performer on Casting Call Club, running on Elasticsearch. Started it on the 22nd, shipped it on the 23rd. Which sounds impressive right up until you ask why a casting site got search at the end of 2024.

Buford: First lines of code on Shosay

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

A login screen. I redesigned it 5 times and gave up. Shosay collects testimonials as video, audio or text and lets you embed them anywhere. Shosay spawned from the idea to share the work those creators have done. I believe sharing one's work, imperfect or otherwise, is beautiful, and necessary for t

💋 How to hire actually good engineers

Sat, 16 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Hiring engineers by what they have shipped rather than by how they perform under a whiteboard.

📺 Lessons starting a $500M & a $5M company in 5 years.

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000

What actually transferred between building Reforge and building Casting Call Club, and what did not.

➿ Raising $20M from A16Z

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000

A term sheet from Andreessen Horowitz, and what the process looked like from the inside.

💸 Choose Money First

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Build the thing that makes money first. Passion is much easier to find once the rent is covered.

🚶🏻‍♂️ On Parental Influence

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000

On what parents hand down without meaning to, and what that leaves you to sort out yourself.

🌉 On San Francisco

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:00:00 +0000

Seven years in the Bay Area, written down before I forgot what it felt like to arrive.