Speaker + Native app builder · Richmond, VA
Hi, I'm
Court Bluford
From the court to the code. I'm a practitioner—second-generation funeral home, self-taught developer, and speaker who helps funeral firms, state lotteries, and growth-minded teams win in the digital age.
Trusted on stages at NFDA, ICCFA, OGR & state lotteries
- 40+Apps shipped
- 400K+Monthly users
- 10+Years App Store
- 7Years pro basketball
What do you need?
Speaking
Bring clarity to your stage.
I'm a practitioner, not a brainstormer—I've been in funeral longer than I've been coding. I speak to funeral homes and conferences (NFDA, ICCFA, OGR), state lotteries, and teams on mobile, AI, web, social, and marketing—from zero to scale.
Every talk is tailored to the room in front of me. Not canned.
Topics I tailor to your room
- Social media in an ever-changing landscape
- Mobile apps, AI, websites, and marketing—from zero to scale
- Funeral home growth in the digital age
- App Store & Play policy for regulated and public-sector apps
- Native iOS & Android for product and leadership teams
For event planners
- Dress Business casual
- Slides Yours to use & modify
- Fee $2,000 (negotiable)
- Travel Round-trip economy
- Lodging Hotel for on-site duration
Trusted on stages including
- NFDA
- ICCFA
- OGR
- La Fleur's
- Virginia Lottery
- Arlington County
What people are saying
Very well presented, and very informative in today's ever-changing social media presence.
This was a fantastic class!
Please share your presentation with us.
Ignite your audience—and make the complex feel clear.
Mobile, AI, websites, social, marketing, funeral growth, lottery apps. Built for the people in the room.
Apps · Lissiland
Inside your codebase. Fix it. Get found. Grow it.
Swift and Kotlin in production—not slide decks. Through Lissiland, I help teams clear App Store rejections, ship MVPs, improve UX, and scale. For state lotteries, I've helped North Carolina, Virginia, and DC get past extended App Store rejections and back to shipping.
Typical outcome: clarity on why you're stuck, a prioritized fix path, and momentum back toward review and release—not months of guessing.
Founders · Free
You have the idea. I'll find the first step.
No pitch deck. No invoice. Serious founders only—the path I gave Seenu, StyleXtend, and LottaWins before they had a product.
- Yes: Native iOS/Android · you'll do the work · idea or sketches
- No: Free dev labor · paid consulting · speaker booking
About
The path.
I've been writing code since 2008, when I built VidSeller—video shopping, Craigslist meets YouTube. In college I learned by printing other people's websites, lining the pages up with the Inspect panel, rewriting the markup, and seeing what broke. Still how I think: ship, study what works, iterate.
- 01Court Pro basketball · 7 years
- 02Home Family funeral · longer than code
- 03Code VidSeller, 2008 → 40+ apps
- 04Stage Lotteries · conferences · founders
- NC, VA, DC lotteries (consulting) · extended App Store rejections cleared
- 400K+ monthly users · state lottery app
- #38 Social · iOS (Seenu)
- 3★→4★+ ratings rebuilt
Connect
One email. No gatekeeping.
I typically reply within 1–2 business days.
What to include
- Your name, organization, and timeline
- Audience and format (keynote, workshop, consulting scope, etc.)
- What success looks like in one or two sentences