I'm Josh Fritzjunker. I build software in Burlington, Iowa.
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// the 15-year arc
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I started writing code at 15 — self-taught on a hand-me-down laptop because I wanted to build something. That turned into a software development degree, and a decade-plus of shipping real tools inside real companies. Most of what I built lived behind the scenes: dashboards, integrations, automation scripts, and internal apps that replaced spreadsheet-and-email workflows someone's team had been running for years.
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Somewhere along the way I became the person coworkers came to when their spreadsheet turned into a monster. The "I can just build that" person. Fritz Automation is how I do that work independently now — for businesses that need it, on their terms, with their code in their hands when we're done.
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// how i work
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const values = [
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"Honest scope and fixed prices. No surprise invoices.",
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"I write the code I'd want to inherit.",
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"You talk to me, not an account manager — the whole way through.",
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"You own everything I build.",
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]
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// why fritz automation exists
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Software consulting is full of shops that'll sell you what they want to sell, in the shape of a retainer. I wanted to run something smaller and more direct — where the person you hire is the person who does the work, where pricing is legible, and where the goal is shipping something you'd recommend to a friend.