Too much of your business lives in email, spreadsheets, and paper.
I build the system that gets it out — one place where the work lives, instead of five places it hides. The retyping and copy-pasting goes away.
Founder-led software studio · Frederick, Maryland
Sillex Tech
I'm Doug Sillex. I build technology around how your business actually works — turning inefficient, manual work into efficient digital systems. I build and operate my own apps, VibeKitchen and MasalaBear, and I bring the same craft to small businesses in the Frederick area. Work with me and you work with the person who builds it.
Proof, not slides
Apps I build and operate
The best evidence I can ship real software is that I already do. These are my own products — live, in production, and still growing.
VibeKitchen
Menus, order links, preordersA live app that lets independent food sellers build menus, share order links, and manage preorders without living inside their DMs. I built it, shipped it, and run it.
Owned & operated by Sillex Tech LLC Visit VibeKitchen →
MasalaBear
Indian food media & recipesA food-media and recipe brand for Indian cooking that earns its audience through search — proof I build things people actually find and use.
Owned & operated by Sillex Tech LLC Visit MasalaBear →
I don't just recommend software. I build and operate it.
- Observe
- Find the friction
- Design the system
- Build or integrate
- Improve
Who I build for
If any of this sounds familiar, we should talk
Your software doesn't work the way your business does.
I build around your process instead of bending your process around someone else's product — the forms, workflow, and views your day actually runs on.
Customers struggle to book, order, pay, or get answers.
I replace the duct-taped front door with one that works — so the people trying to give you money can do it without calling twice.
You're not sure what technology is worth buying.
I evaluate systems for a living, and I'll tell you plainly what's worth it — including when the honest answer is to buy nothing at all.
Ways to work with me
Three ways in
Start here
Business Systems Review
We walk through how work actually moves through your business and find where it is slower, more manual, or more fragile than it should be. You leave with a clear, prioritized plan — useful whether or not you build with me.
Modernization Project
Take the one system that frustrates you most — booking, ordering, invoicing, scheduling — and rebuild it around how you actually operate.
Custom Software Build
When nothing off the shelf fits, I design and build the software your business runs on — purpose-made, and supported by the person who wrote it.
What part of your business feels harder than it should?
Fifteen minutes, no pitch. Tell me what's slowing you down and I'll tell you honestly whether software can fix it.
Book a 15-minute callBased in Frederick, Maryland — built for the small businesses nearby.