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Derek's portfolio and journal

Good ideas.
Built for real.

Websites I design. Software I build.
Newsletters I write along the way.
This is where all of it lives.

Products. Websites. Things worth opening.Take a look around

Websites
I've designed.

Real businesses, real people behind the counter.
Both are live right now.

Real sites. Live right now.
Bobola's, the building
Family restaurant, Nashua NH

Bobola's

Menus, live open-now hours, pickup ordering and DoorDash, all one tap from the homepage.

  • Live open-now hours
  • Tap to call
  • Hours and address readable by Google
  • Every photo described

Design is the part I like most. These two show how I think about it.

Say hello

Out in the world.

Two to start with.
11 more live further down.

Short Order Labs

A home for restaurant software, local websites, and ideas shaped by the work itself.

Built from life
in restaurants.

Years on the floor. A notebook full of ideas.
This is where they become products.

MenuSparks
Live now

Specials worth talking about.

Chef-level specials from the ingredients already in your walk-in. The project at the heart of Short Order Labs.

Visit MenuSparks
Pour Plan
Sister project, in development

The beverage side of the business.

A companion for cocktails, drinks, and the ideas behind the bar.

Also taking shape

BacklineLive ToastTVIn developmentLEDGRIn developmentTempo SchedulerIn development

There's more
where that came from.

A studio with a few open tabs.
Explore the projects and ideas taking shape.

AI & creative tools

6 projects, 3 live

Live projects open in a click.

Fine Print

Upload a contract, bill, or collection letter. Get what it really says and the letter to send back.

PicMove

Pictures from your iPhone, straight to your PC. No cloud photo storage.

Also from the studioMaker & MachinehAIstory

A good reason
to open your inbox.

Four obsessions. Four newsletters.
Find the one that speaks your language.

From the newsletter desk

Find your signal.

Markets, investing, and the research behind the conviction. A closer look at what deserves your attention.

Read Signal & Noise

Behind
the scenes.

Every site, app and idea runs through one private back office.
This is DBTech HQ.

Every morning starts here. What broke overnight, what is moving, what is next.

  • Checks every site, deploy and repo each morning
  • Flags what is broken before a customer notices
  • Drafts, ideas and the to-do list in one place
Ask me about it I built it to run my own projects.
DBTech HQ Today screen, with private details blurred
Real screens. Names, addresses and numbers that matter are blurred on purpose.

I'm Derek. I build software, websites, and the ideas that won't leave me alone. DBTech45 is where they get out into the world.

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