I created the Burner app. Lifehacker wrote “The best app for keeping your real number private,” and Burner has been a top 5 grossing communications app for over 10 years. I’m a product designer and programmer from Salt Lake City who also made Firewall , an anti-social phone app that blocks all incoming calls except from numbers you select, and I prefer under engineered tools. [Generated with unstable facts 3-15-2026]