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spizeck/README.md

Hi, I'm Chad

I'm a business owner and operator based on Saba, Dutch Caribbean.

I don't run a software company. I build software because running real businesses and working in a small community exposes plenty of problems that technology can solve better.

Most of what you'll find here started with a real problem: something inefficient, something that didn't exist, or something I thought could work better.

What I work on

🏝️ Business operations

Tools and systems built around the day-to-day realities of operating businesses on a small Caribbean island.

🤿 Tourism & diving

I own and operate Sea Saba, a dive operation on Saba. A growing amount of our technology is built in-house around the way we actually operate.

🏛️ Community & public-service projects

Software for local problems where an off-the-shelf solution either doesn't exist or doesn't fit Saba particularly well.

🍺 Brewing & hospitality

I also work in brewing and hospitality, which creates an entirely different collection of operational problems worth solving.

How I build

I'm not a career software developer.

My background is in operating businesses. I approach software the same way I approach operations: understand the problem, define the rules, build a system, test it against reality, and keep improving it.

AI has dramatically changed what's possible for someone working this way. I use AI coding agents extensively for implementation while I focus on product direction, domain knowledge, architecture, testing, review, and deciding what should actually be built.

The result is increasingly serious software built around problems I understand firsthand.

A few projects

  • Saba Water Delivery - A water-delivery coordination platform built to solve a real public-service challenge on Saba.

  • Sea Saba - The web platform for our dive operation, including tools and integrations built around the needs of an operating dive business.

  • ContractBuilder - An earlier system I built to solve group-contract and partner-coordination problems at Sea Saba. It's now being superseded by a much broader operational platform built from what I learned using it.

  • Deep Dive Brewing - Web technology for a working brewery and hospitality business.

  • NFL Picks - Because not every project needs to solve a business problem.

The common thread

I like finding places where real-world experience, good systems, and technology intersect.

Sometimes that's a booking workflow. Sometimes it's water delivery. Sometimes it's a brewery, a dive boat, or a football pool.

If it can work better, I'm probably interested in figuring out how.

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  1. deepdivebrewing-web deepdivebrewing-web Public

    Official website and content management platform for Deep Dive Brewing Co, a craft brewery on Saba, Dutch Caribbean.

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  2. nfl-picks nfl-picks Public

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  3. seasaba-web seasaba-web Public

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  4. saba-water-delivery saba-water-delivery Public

    Government RO water delivery request and driver dispatch system for Saba

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