About
Practical tools for real workflows.
Build With Barker is where I build useful digital products, templates, workflow systems, and experiments in public.
I'm Andrew Barker, a product-minded builder focused on workflow automation, practical AI systems, templates, and digital products that solve real problems.
After spending the last decade in the United States, I recently moved back to New Zealand. This site is part fresh chapter, part product studio, and part public workbench for the apps, templates, experiments, and Working Notes I'm shaping next.
The focus is simple: turn messy workflows into clearer systems. Sometimes that means a product. Sometimes it means a template, an automation, a prototype, or a practical note from the build process. The common thread is usefulness.
What I'm building
A connected set of products, templates, experiments, and notes.
Vault is in design
Products
Collector-focused software for scanning, organizing, searching, and exporting cards, physical media, vinyl, books, games, and the objects people actually care about.
Business and personal systems
Templates
WordPress and Notion templates shaped around real workflows, so small businesses, creators, and operators can skip the blank page and start with something structured.
Small bets and prototypes
Experiments
Apps, data visualizations, training tools, workflow tests, and practical AI ideas that help prove what is useful before something becomes a full product.
Writing from the process
Working Notes
Notes on workflow automation, product decisions, AI-assisted systems, launch lessons, and the work of turning messy problems into clearer tools.
How I think about the work
Less scattered, more useful.
A good system does not need to be complicated. A useful product does not need to promise everything. The best ideas usually start with a specific frustration: too many manual steps, too much information spread across too many places, a process that has outgrown a spreadsheet, or a product idea that needs shape before it can become real.
Build With Barker exists to explore those problems and turn them into practical tools with clean structure, clear purpose, and enough polish to be genuinely usable.
Work With Me
Turn a messy workflow into a clearer system.
Alongside the products and templates, I work with small businesses, creators, startups, and operators who need help shaping workflows, systems, or product ideas.