Salzburg-based. Always building.

Hi, I'm Gerhard. I build tours, tools and systems.

I keep making things: tours, courses, directories, booking systems. Most of them are simple. All of them connect back to this city. This site is where the work gets written down.

Salzburg

Most of what I build only makes sense because it is shaped by living here. It is the home base and usually the starting point.

Tourism

Guiding taught me how to simplify information, tell a story clearly, and build systems around people instead of around software.

Digital

I do not just build websites. I build the systems behind them: teaching, booking, publishing, managing. Tools that work together.

Recent writing

All 14 posts
  1. My Own Site Inventory Was Wrong in Four PlacesI had a careful written inventory of this site before migrating it. Fetching every URL instead found 13 posts rather than 10, and 23 images broken for years.Work and Systems3 min
  2. Action is Black and WhiteA work session only counts when something tangible changed. Why acting early beats sitting on a decision until it gets heavy.Work and Systems3 min
  3. How Competence Levels the Pace of Building: From Kitchens to CodeBuilding moves in waves of slow preparation and sudden execution. Competence flattens the waves by making preparation leaner and decisions stick.Work and Systems6 min
  4. Killing Your DarlingsWritten while cancelling a domain: why languages, music and half the side projects had to go so Salzburg could get everything.Reflection and Diary3 minarchive

What is running

All 9 projects
  • Free Walking Tour SalzburgThe tip-based walking tour started in 2018, grown from one guide taking sign-ups at a hostel reception into a small licensed team.
  • Rikschatours SalzburgSalzburg's rickshaw tour company, taken over from its founder after the pandemic pause: site and booking rebuilt, the offer cut back to three tours.
  • Exclusive ExplorationsPrivate guiding in Salzburg, run with licensed guide Markus. Small scale, fixed experience categories, no marketplace and no upsells.
  • KoreanischkursA German-language Korean course grown from lockdown YouTube videos into 300 videos, three books, live classes and an eLearning platform.
  • Hyunok JangThe English-language counterpart to Koreanischkurs, run as Hyunok's own teaching brand and deliberately limited to a YouTube channel and translated books.

What the work has been about

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