About Bryan Benner

The website guy (2000s to present)

At 13 I was working under the table at ma-and-pa pizza shops and ice cream booths. By my mid-teens I was chasing commissions: Cutco, vacuums, pots and pans, Scentsy bears. Every one of those jobs promised the same two things, residual income and my own hours. None of them delivered, but I never stopped wanting exactly that.

The end of high school was a factory night shift. Work to school, school to sleep, sleep to work, around and around. Then I lost my pinky in a work accident. Losing a finger makes you rethink things. I left the factory, enrolled in business school, realized halfway through it was not for me, and started picking random courses to find what felt right. Human psychology. Electrical engineering. Computer programming.

I had never used a computer in my life. The programming was rough, but it pushed me sideways into web design and development, and that was a world built for me. I fell in love. When class handed me an assignment, I turned it into a client: if the homework was a header carousel, I would find a logo company and build theirs for free. I walked out of college with a client base. Twenty years later it is still the same instinct, figure out what can run itself, then build the thing that does it.

When I was not working on client websites, I was working on my own. Countless failed projects, and a few that got big. One hit the Alexa top 1,000 within a month before Google shut it down overnight, cease and desist and all. The lesson stuck: don't try to poke a hole in someone else's water tower.

Autoview (2011 to present)

That circle led to Bitcoin, and Bitcoin led to me creating Autoview: automated trade execution, born alongside crypto itself. That was the last 15 years, trading automation and the SaaS life. More than 21,000 traders have signed up to Autoview, and 15,000+ follow the trading tools, strategies and indicators I put out along the way. The funny part is I could never focus on my own trading automation, because I was always building it for everyone else. Autoview is still running and still profitable, but AI, the vendor cut and Canadian crypto regulations have made it less needed than it once was. It forced a pivot.

Living Websites and the organism swarm (2026 to present)

Then AI came out, and changed it all again for me. I run a swarm of AI organisms now. They build, they measure, they keep their own records, and they publish everything, including the failures. When I finally pointed the machinery at my own trading ideas, it proved they lose to a coin flip. I published that too.

I spent 20 years making money from websites and online tools. Now I want to do it for others. Trading is a part of me, but it was never what I did for a living. Helping others make money through automation is what I want to do now, and AI finally makes that possible at a scale one person could never reach alone.

Contact

Reach Living Websites directly: hello@livingwebsites.ca or 647-701-8646.