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Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.

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Building and Exiting a Mobile Scanning App

Rylan Barnes discusses his journey building ShopSavvy, a mobile barcode scanning app, from early technical experimentation through to a successful exit. The podcast episode explores how childhood programming experiences and marketplace innovations led to the creation and eventual acquisition of his most successful venture.

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Summary

Rylan Barnes discusses his journey building ShopSavvy, a mobile barcode scanning app, from early technical experimentation through to a successful exit. The podcast episode explores how childhood programming experiences and marketplace innovations led to the creation and eventual acquisition of his most successful venture.

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mobile-scanning · startup-exit · entrepreneurship · product-development · barcode-scanning · venture-capital

Key entities

Rylan Barnes (person, 0.99) · Noah Labhart (person, 0.95) · George Mocharko (person, 0.95) · ShopSavvy (organization, 0.99) · Code Story (organization, 0.99) · Purch (organization, 0.9) · barcode-scanning (technology, 0.98) · Logo programming language (technology, 0.85) · ShopSavvy exit (event, 0.9)

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transcript · language en · status final

Provenance

claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/be@0.1.0, confidence 0.85, 6 Aug 2026