Danny O. Burgans — Author, Songwriter & App Creator

Entrepreneur. Business builder. Author. Inventor. Creative problem-solver. A life assembled out of persistence and reinvention — one trade, one manuscript, one app, one verse at a time.

Danny O. Burgans is an author, songwriter, and app creator dedicated to building useful and entertaining tools. He is best known for his novel The Architect's Daughter, a story about blueprints, inheritance, and the weight of what our parents build for us. Beyond writing, Danny has created several free apps including Xtreme Notes, Dis-Solve, Bag Au Pair, and Stepping Out — all designed to solve real problems without collecting user data.

Danny's career spans multiple disciplines: he built and ran TintPros Auto Image, a successful auto window tinting business that taught him the fundamentals of customer service, pricing, and business operations. Alongside his entrepreneurial ventures, he has maintained a prolific creative practice, writing lyrics, poetry, and music that reflect his philosophy of solving problems and creating value.

What connects his tint shop, his novel, his apps, and his music is a single instinct: see a problem clearly, then build the thing that solves it. This website brings together all of his work — books, music, poems, art, and free tools — in one place.

The Architect's Daughter — the novel

In the late nineteenth century, as ambition and industry reshape the world, young Emily Laurent grows up in a home filled with both brilliance and warmth. Her father, a visionary architect, dreams of building structures that defy limits, while her mother creates a life of quiet beauty and love. But when a devastating illness shatters their family, Emily's world collapses, forcing her to face a future she never imagined. The Architect's Daughter is a deeply moving coming-of-age novel about love, loss, resilience, and the quiet power of growth. Available in paperback on Amazon.

Music, lyrics, and poems

Words came before everything else. Lyrics scrawled on receipts, poems written between jobs, verses tested out loud in an empty shop. This is the quiet engine underneath the businesses — the part of the work that never needed permission. Listen to original tracks, read the lyrics, and read short verse written between working days.

Free apps built out of necessity

Each of these started as a personal problem. Xtreme Notes is a notes app that behaves. Dis-Solve is a fun game for kids to protect the Earth with dots that destroy asteroids. Bag Au Pair helps you remember your reusable bags every time. Stepping Out tracks your walks, jogs, and runs with privacy in mind. All are free progressive web apps — no accounts, no analytics, no ads, and no data collected.