Hi, I'm Tyler.

For as long as I can remember, finding a good garage sale in town meant juggling a dozen Facebook groups, scrolling random one-off posts, and squinting at a newspaper classifieds section that gets quieter every year. My mother-in-law felt it from the other side when she ran her estate-sale business — she could put together an incredible sale and still struggle to reach the people in town who would actually show up for it.

YardHo! is what I wish had existed back then: one place to find every sale near you, one place for sellers to be found.

Born and raised in Enid back in 1983. Right out of high school I joined the U.S. Air Force as a firefighter and spent ten years on active duty, with stops at bases in Texas, Kansas, New Jersey, and Alaska — plus deployments to Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain in support of ongoing missions. I served a few more years in the Reserves after separating from active duty. I'm a 100% disabled veteran.

Coming home to Enid, I worked at Vance Air Force Base as a contract firefighter and emergency services dispatch supervisor. After that I started wading into small business: managing a fleet of Bird electric scooters in Enid as Tylamy Scooter Services, building up a YouTube channel and Amazon Influencer presence, and operating a private taxi service called Queen Wheat City Taxi. The taxi business eventually wound down so I could spend more time at home — as a single father, that part wasn't optional.

I'm a dad to four kids and have two granddaughters who keep me both very proud and feeling old at the same time.

I'm not a software developer. Before YardHo! I'd never written a line of code. What I had instead was a problem I cared about, the time to spend on it, and a new generation of AI tools that finally make it possible for a determined non-coder to ship real software.

Most of YardHo! was built by me describing what I wanted to a large language model, refining the output until it worked, testing it on my own phone, and iterating. It's a strange new way to build things, and honestly I don't think it would have been possible even two years ago.

That doesn't mean it's thrown together. YardHo! has been through a real beta program, ships through the Google Play Store as a properly signed Android release, and includes features you'd expect from a much bigger team: cloaked addresses for safety, smart route planning, AI-assisted post creation, weather forecasts for your sale day, curated thrift & antique shop listings, and an in-app assistant. But it's genuinely the work of one person in Enid, and I think that's worth saying out loud.

A free, friendly, low-ad way for people in any town to find what's worth driving across town for on a Saturday morning. A fair shake for sellers, whether it's grandma's downsizing weekend or a thrift shop that's been on the same corner for forty years. And a small reminder that the weekend treasure-hunt is one of the best things small towns still have going for them.