About

Small on purpose. Senior on every task.

Hill Country Devs is Will Schwanke and Austin Taylor — a developer-designer duo who got tired of watching good ideas die in agency handoff chains. So we built the agency we'd want to hire: small, senior, and still around long after launch.

The founders

Will Schwanke

Co-founder · Engineering & Architecture

Fifteen years building software across .NET, Go, and Node — from startup MVPs to systems that outlived the companies around them. Owns architecture, backends, and the hard bugs. Firmly believes the best code is the code you don’t have to write.

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Austin Taylor

Co-founder · Design & Frontend

Designer who codes, or developer who designs — depends on the day. Owns brand, UI/UX, and the frontend that makes the design real. Has strong opinions about type, and stronger ones about loading states.

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What we believe

Small is a feature.

Two people means zero bureaucracy, total accountability, and answers from the person actually doing the work.

Ship early, improve always.

Working software beats perfect plans. You’ll see real progress from week one.

Stay past launch.

Version 1.0 is the starting line. The products we’re proudest of are the ones we’re still improving years later.

Honesty over upsells.

If you don’t need it, we’ll say so. If someone else does it better, we’ll point you to them.

Let's build something your business can rely on.

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