April Lee

For as long as I can remember, I have loved horses. It might not sound related to a bookkeeping app, but that love is really the whole reason my life took the path it did.

I grew up in Burbank, California, raised by a single dad. When I was thirteen, he bought me my first horse, and that started everything. When it came time for college, Cal Poly Pomona was not close and I could not afford to live on campus, so I did my first two years of general education at Pasadena Community College and then finished with three years at Cal Poly Pomona. I was just shy of a master’s when I had my first child, but I earned my Bachelor of Science from Cal Poly Pomona’s College of Agriculture, majoring in pre-veterinary science, with my own focus on farm animal reproduction.

A few years later I landed a job in software and bought my first home, a small three-acre ranch in Little Rock, California. That is where my love of agriculture really got to grow. I kept horses, chickens, and turkeys, and because I have always been entrepreneurial, I was constantly finding ways to bring in extra money. I built an obstacle course on my property so people could bring their horses out to desensitize them, I worked with the U.S. government training wild horses and burros through their incentive programs, and I sold more than my share of chickens, hatching eggs, and baby chicks. That background, and that entrepreneurial streak, is what led me to build Traders Till.

I have been in the software industry for almost twenty years. Today I work remotely for a company that makes self-storage management software, where I am involved in just about every part of the business. Farm-stand software is a different animal, but I get to draw on nearly two decades of software experience alongside my farming background, and that is exactly what I have poured into Traders Till.

I am in the middle of planning a move to Florida, hopefully by the end of 2026 and no later than 2027. The one thing I want most, and cannot do from an apartment, is have a farm stand: something that can sit right out at the road and earn while I am inside working. I work remotely, so a farm stand feels like the perfect fit, and I would love to get back to selling baby chicks and chickens the way I used to.

Traders Till, together with Farm Stand Hub, is how I am building the tool I will want for my own stand, and the one I wish other makers had. As a single mom, I understand the struggle, and I know how much a little extra income can help a family. Whether it is keeping your pricing, recipes, and ingredients straight, staying on top of your county’s rules, or just knowing whether you are actually making progress, I am trying to pour my heart into this so that you and I both can grow something real.