Hi! I’m Ben Borgers.

I’m a high school senior in Boston, MA. I make things with JavaScript, Node.js, React, React Native, and most recently Laravel.

I’m on twitter and github. If you wanna get in touch, I love getting emails: benborgers@hey.com

Here’s a skimmable bullet point timeline about me:

Built a version 2 of my app Blocks, an app for my school’s schedule used by 1,900+ students and teachers

2020-2021 school year
Building Bagel Institute, tools for more interactive college teaching

fall 2020 - now
Return software development summer internship at IBM

summer 2020
Freelance: built the website and class registration system for Diyi, an online school based out of Boston

summer 2020
Freelance: worked on Rep.ly, a public Q&A platform by the agency Dip

summer 2020
Building Underline, a dead-simple and affordable way to send newsletter

spring 2020 - now
Built Coronavirus by County, a mini site that shows the number of COVID cases in your county using data from The New York Times

spring 2020
Freelance: built an app for Sophrosyne, a mental health-related club at my high school

spring 2020
Built Potion, an open-source reverse-engineered API for Notion

spring 2020
Built Pausebot, an iOS app that helps you pause videos on TikTok for the pause trend

spring 2020
Software development summer internship at IBM

summer 2019
Built EMOJICDN, a simple API for getting an image of any emoji that serves over two million requests per month

spring 2019
Wrote a collection of unit summaries for AP Chemistry

2019 - 2020 school year
Wrote a study guide of questions for preparing for the AP Biology test

2018 - 2019 school year