Product
Scope, ship, and iterate with real users in the loop.
Full-stack founder
I ship production systems end to end — not demos.
Backend, frontend, infrastructure, and the operational work that keeps products live. Six things below are running in production today — open them.
How I work
Founder-builder.
Code, product, and uptime.
I design and run the whole stack — APIs, interfaces, databases, deploy pipelines, mail, TLS, and the boring ops that keep a site answering at 3am. The portfolio is the live internet, not a Figma deck.
Full stack
Web, mobile, services, data — one owner across the cut.
Operations
Infra, observability, and the unglamorous keep-it-up work.
01 — Design
Start from the problem, not the stack.
Who uses it, what breaks today, what “done” actually means in production.
02 — Ship
Empty repo → live URL.
Interfaces, APIs, auth, data models, and the first deploy that real people can hit.
03 — Run
Then keep it honest.
Monitoring, mail, certs, incident habits — the part that separates a demo from a product.
Selected work
Six products.
All live.
Taglines pulled from each product’s own site — click through and use them.
FrontDesk24
Auditable AI front desk and staff-facing PMS — kiosk, voice, reservations, folios, night audit, and reviewable traces on every AI action.
frontdesk24.us →ARC-Relay
DMARCbis-compliant email forwarding with ARC sealing and SRS rewriting for 100% pass-through — DKIM signing, sender rules, optional grounded AI replies.
arc-relay.ai →SensaVista
Spatial computing for somatosensory rehabilitation after stroke, TBI, and acquired brain injury — adaptive retraining on native headset sensors, no external hardware.
sensavista.com →Aether Tools
Instruments for the liminal — a family of iOS apps at the junction of esoterica and serious engineering. Every reading is computed on-device.
aethertools.us →FD24 Learn
Live classes and an AI instructor for FrontDesk24 hotel teams — schedule, deliver in the browser, and track who’s certified.
learn.fd24.us →Co·oParent
Coordination for co-parents — shared schedules, messaging, and expense tracking, built once for web and mobile.
cooparent.work →About
Rick Hoopes.
Builder and founder.
I take products from empty repo to production and keep them there — full stack, infrastructure included. Recent work spans an AI-driven hotel operations platform, DMARC-safe mail infrastructure, spatial health tech, an on-device iOS studio, hotel-team training, and a co-parenting app.
- Founder mode Own the problem, the roadmap, and the runtime.
- Full stack UI, APIs, data, deploy, and the glue between them.
- Live proof Every card above is a real domain you can open now.
Let’s talk.
Product collaboration, technical partnership, or something you want built end to end.