Building the tool that should already exist.
I'm Jacob, a solo developer in Port Huron, Michigan. Somewhere in your operation, someone is doing a job by hand that software should have handled years ago. That's what I build. And I build it well enough that people notice.
Why BWstack exists
My day job is in IT leadership at a regional education agency in Michigan. Earlier this year my boss asked me to coordinate our IT department's response for a professional development day — the first one our agency had hosted in 12 years. He also asked me to present, for four of the five hours we'd be there.
I knew our team would carry the day, and I wouldn't be free to run it. So I built a small tool that let our techs check off presenter rooms as they prepped each one — confirm the laptop's connected, audio and video test clean, presenter's ready. Simple idea. The kind of thing that should already exist.
The event ran without a single tech issue. One attendee told my director it was the first conference he'd been to in 30 years where nothing went wrong. Another attendee — a former assistant superintendent now working in education technology — asked who built the tool and told me to sell it.
That tool became Ready Space.
“First conference I've been to in 30 years where nothing went wrong.”— Conference attendee
What I do
I think of myself as a translator. Most of my career has been spent between people who deeply understand technology and people who don't — figuring out what someone actually needs and turning it into something that works.
AI-assisted development changed what's possible for me. I can take a real business problem — the recurring task someone keeps doing manually, the communication breakdown that costs an hour every shift — and ship a working tool for it. Fast. Built for the actual job, not for a generic market.
If you run something in the Blue Water area (or anywhere) and the friction is starting to add up, I'd like to hear about it. I take on a small number of custom projects — if the problem is real and the fit is right, let's talk.
My Flagship Product
Ready Space
LIVEYour next event won't have a tech meltdown. Ready Space gives venues and event coordinators a live, map-based operations layer — upload a floor plan, drop pins for tasks and trouble spots, and your staff gets a magic link straight to the live map. It keeps working when the signal doesn't: staff in a dead zone still see the map, and their updates sync the moment service comes back. No app installs. No walkie-talkies. No surprises.
Free to start — one map, 25 pins, no card. Paid plans from $79/mo, or $149 flat for a 14-day event.
Custom Work
Course Registration Platform
LIVEA full course-registration and payments platform I built end-to-end for a Michigan professional-training provider. Students browse the catalog and register through a guided flow, paying by card or invoice; the client's team runs courses, rosters, and reporting from a single admin dashboard. Now live on their own domain.
Want something like this built for your business? Let's talk →Also Building
ReadyClass
COMING SOONThe self-serve version of the custom course-registration platform above, for any business that runs classes or workshops. Publish your classes, take card payments — or send invoices — and manage rosters and waitlists, all from one link. Payments land in your own Stripe account, so you stay in control.