Work

Case studies

Engagements where we built — or fought for — something real: custom field-operations software, a home for an author's work, and the IT that keeps a two-store family business running, including the telecom fight that saved it five figures.

Creator platformLive · 2026

iTaleSoWell

Dark short fiction by Aniken D. Robinson, scattered across five platforms that each owned a slice of his audience. VTS built him an address of his own — a masked host, twenty tales with cover art and an ePub apiece, a reader built for phones, a mailing list nobody can throttle, and the back office he runs all of it from.

Static siteEditorial back officeePub generationWattpad syncSES

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Custom softwareIn production · 2026

Pipetree

An operations platform for crossbore CCTV pipe inspection. Operators enter typed field data; the system derives a live infrastructure graph; project managers resolve problems inline on the graph. In production daily since early 2026, released open source under AGPL.

Next.jsPostgreSQLPWASelf-hostedOpen source

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$945/mounder $50/mo

FCC complaint won in 15 days · $10k+/yr saved

Telecom advocacyClient engagement · 2026

POTS-to-VoIP Migration

A 47-year AT&T customer was paying ~$945/month for copper POTS lines and got hit with an unauthorized $5,000 contract when they tried to leave. VTS ran the audit, built the case, won an FCC complaint in 15 days, and migrated them to VoIP for a fraction of the cost.

Telecom auditFCC advocacyVoIPNumber porting

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Since 2021

2 stores · 16 machines · backups verified off-site

Managed ITOngoing · 2021–

Bravo Farms

A family business since 1979, with two stores. VTS has looked after its IT since 2021: sixteen machines under remote management, register backups verified before they go off-site, the phones, the online store, and a written record of how each store actually works.

Remote managementVerified backupsPoint of saleVoIPOnline store

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Bravo Farms, Traver. Photo: “Bravo Farms ~ Traver, California” by Thank You (25 Millions ) views, CC BY 2.0.

Bravo Farms, Kettleman City. Photo: “Bravo Farms, Kettleman City” by kennejima, CC BY 2.0.

In development

Software we're building now. Both will change a lot before they're done.

Custom softwareIn development

reckon

Invoicing and time tracking for a small trade business, self-hosted, with the books, invoices and timesheets kept in agreement by the database itself.

SvelteKitPostgreSQLSelf-hostedOpen source

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Custom softwareIn development

Turf Tracker

A phone app for lawn and garden care: your soil test and product list in, the exact dose out, and every application logged with one tap.

PWANext.jsPostgreSQLSelf-hosted