We build these because we needed them
A developer who ended up in manufacturing, or a manufacturer who ended up writing software. Depending which day you ask.
Who this is
I run Alpine Apparel Co, a water-based screen printing shop in Castle Rock, Colorado. I built the first version of this for my own shop because I could not buy anything that fit the way we worked. Everything since has been the same problem wearing different clothes.
Operator Stack is what happened when we stopped solving that for one business and started solving it for others. We are a small team: Jesse on systems design and the trade side, plus a developer on builds.
There are plenty of good developers who would take your project. Almost none of them have priced a job at 6am, watched an afternoon disappear on an inquiry that was never worth taking, or explained to a customer why the thing they asked for costs more than the thing they thought they asked for.
We're not visiting this from the outside
We teach
Startup Screen Printing Free resources, plus a course on the business side of printing. YouTube 120+ videos on technique, pricing and running a shop. Free.Published and interviewed at
What that's worth to you
We build on Airtable, Zite, Lovable, and custom code, and we pick from the work rather than from a preferred tool. See how we pick →
- Top-tier Replit builder, also building with Lovable and Zite
- Pricely, GroupKit and Packed are live products with paying users, built and maintained by us
None of that is what you are buying. It is why the people building your systems already know what a bottleneck costs.
Next step
Tell us where it hurts
Twenty minutes. We look at how work moves through your business and tell you what we would fix first, whether or not that involves us.