Prickles Tech

Prickles Tech LLC · Grand Rapids, MI

Let’s build something.

Prickles Tech is my company. I build things under it, I run software for a few people who asked, and I take on projects when they’re a good fit.

An idea, a stalled build, a site nobody’s maintaining, or an AI agent you want doing real work — all reasonable things to send me.

Email me about itWhat I've built

Right now

Taking new projects
Yes
Building now
Chef Buddy
Reply time
A day or so
Where
Michigan, remote

No forms if you'd rather not — contact@prickles.tech works.

The work

What's here so far.

One of mine so far, and room for what's next.

See all the work →
Own productChef BuddyA cooking platform for households — native iPhone and iPad apps, a web companion and admin, and an API behind them. AI is threaded through the whole thing: recipe import from a link or photo, meal plans generated from your library, per-step timers, and an assistant that already knows what’s in your kitchen.Private beta
OpenYour thingThis row is empty and I’d like it not to be.—

Working together

How it usually starts.

  1. 01

    You send a few sentences

    What you want, and roughly when. It doesn’t have to be figured out yet.

  2. 02

    We talk for half an hour

    Free. If the honest answer is that you don’t need me for this, I’ll say so.

  3. 03

    I write down the plan

    What gets built, by when, for how much. Then I build it.

Me

Jake Prickett.

I got my first computer in second grade and it’s been hardware and software ever since — running the family network, building machines from the motherboard up by middle school with the LED case lighting to match, hosting and modding my own Counter-Strike servers, and writing websites nobody asked for.

That turned into a career: mobile platform work at Ford that shipped in 26 countries, then principal engineer at Meijer on the ecommerce platform and the tooling twenty-odd teams built on. Prickles Tech is where I do that work on my own terms.

Outside of it there’s a home lab I keep finding excuses to expand, pizza I take too seriously, and a family in Grand Rapids.

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What do you want to exist?

Even if it's rough. Especially if it's rough.

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