Hi, I’m Chris.

I’m a husband, father, and founder. I’ve spent 30 years building products, companies, and communities.

My wife Christina is a high school teacher and avid runner.

In 2015, we moved from Brooklyn to Boulder with our kids, Tegan and Killian. Later that year, Riley was born. Along the way, we added a dog named Bear to the family.

What I’m making

Studioworks

Proposals, invoices, payments, and a home for every client at your own address or even your own domain (with Jessica Hische)

Faculty

My product studio for founders who have an idea worth believing in

Schoolcase

A smart assistant that helps families stay on top of school and activities

Scoutalong

Live trip tracking and storytelling for Scout troops, and the first piece of Mapalong, an idea I’ve been circling since 2005

Roost

My indie coworking studio in Boulder for founders, freelancers, and creatives

You may also know me from

Brooklyn Beta

A beloved design conference that ran from 2010–2014 (with Cameron Koczon)

Backcountry Club

An outdoor adventure club for indoor people

Landice

A map-based travel blog from a 2009 trip around Iceland, made before our phones had GPS (with Andrei Zmievski and Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson)

Web Advent

An Advent calendar for web developers that ran from 2007–2012 (with Sean Coates)

From the archive

These are the days. They always were.

• WIRED — quoted as “Chris Shiflett (not of the Foo Fighters)”; one day I’d like to be written about without the qualification
• The Great Discontent — an interview series about creative work that I was honored to be part of
• New York Times — my photo was in the paper on May 5, 2011, the day my daughter was born
• Talks at SXSW, Webstock, O’Reilly OSCON, Foo Camp, and more

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