Web developer & systems builder · Brooklyn, NY

Yitz Shapiro

I build fast, clean software and the systems that keep teams running. After hours: jazz piano, mycology, and getting tapped on the jiu-jitsu mat.

Personnel
Yitz Shapiro — keys, code, spores, guard
Recorded
Brooklyn, New York
Now playing
TVGuessr, a live-TV geography game

Selected work

Things I’ve built

Side project · Live now

TVGuessr

The world is on your TV.

A geography game played with live television. You land on a real broadcast from somewhere on Earth — a local news desk, a game show, an unfamiliar jingle — and drop a pin on the map where you think it’s coming from. I built it, and it’s dangerously easy to play one more round.

  • 150+ countries
  • 10 rounds a game
  • 1,000 pts per right answer
  • No account
Play at tvguessr.garden
TVGuessr home screen: “The world is on your TV.”TVGuessr in play: round 1 of 10, a world map waiting for a guessCH 1 · Home
Turn the dial

Day job · Senior Operations Manager

MeanPug Digital

I run internal operations and systems for a lean marketing team that serves U.S. law firms — automations, dashboards, reporting, and recruiting. I’ve hired more than half the team.

  • Apps Script
  • Airtable
  • Slack
  • Notion
  • Asana
  • Zapier & Make

You’re looking at it

yitzshapiro.com

Next.js, hand-inked SVG, and a Web Audio piano you can actually play. The previous version — a fake command line with two games and too many easter eggs — still runs.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • SVG filters
  • Web Audio
Open the terminal

What I do

Clean systems, technical and human.

  • Build

    Fast, accessible websites and web apps, from first sketch to production — and the dashboards behind them.

    • React
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Node
    • Supabase
    • Firebase
  • Automate

    Glue between the tools a team already uses, so reporting, hand-offs, and busywork run themselves.

    • Apps Script
    • Airtable
    • Slack
    • Notion
    • Zapier
    • Make
  • Get found

    Technical SEO built in from the start: semantic HTML, structured data, Core Web Vitals, sensible content architecture.

    • Schema.org
    • JSON-LD
    • Core Web Vitals
    • Headless CMS

Off the clock

After hours

Keys

Jazz piano

I play jazz piano. It’s the best way I know to practice structure and improvisation at the same time. Here’s a keyboard — take a chorus.

Now sounding—

Your keyboard works too: the Z row plays from C3, the Q row from middle C.Tap a key, or drag across for a glissando.

Spores

Mycology

Fungi run the oldest network on Earth, and I could read about them all day. This one grows in your browser — tap the dark to drop a spore.

A white jiu-jitsu belt with two stripes on its black rank bar

Mat

Brazilian jiu-jitsu

Two stripes on a white belt, which mostly means I’ve tapped a lot and learned something every time. Systems thinking, except someone is trying to choke you.

Rank
White belt
Stripes
2 of 4
Taps
Plenty

Contact

Let’s build something.

Open to web builds, ops and automation work, and good conversations about any of the above.