Software and servers built to actually run — and someone to answer when they don't.
Deaton Technology Solutions designs custom apps, dashboards, and self-hosted infrastructure for families, teams, and small businesses — then sticks around to keep it working.
Five things I build, on repeat.
No agency layers, no outsourced development — one person who scopes, builds, and supports what you get.
Custom Web Apps & Dashboards
Purpose-built tools for how you actually work — scheduling, monitoring, internal dashboards — not a template you have to work around.
Website Building
Fast, clean sites for small businesses and personal brands. No monthly page-builder fees, no lock-in to someone else's platform.
Self-Hosted Server Setup & Hosting
Your own infrastructure — provisioned, configured, and monitored. Docker, backups, and remote access, without the SaaS markup.
Ongoing IT Support & Maintenance
Someone who already knows your setup, on call when something breaks. Updates, backups, and troubleshooting handled.
Remote Support Licensing
A self-hosted remote-access platform for your own team — screen sharing and unattended access, licensed per seat, without the big-vendor markup.
Built, deployed, and still running.
A sample of production systems currently in daily use.
Family Scheduling App
A shared calendar built for one household — categorized events, per-person filtering, and push notifications straight to the browser. No subscription.
Community Game Server Hosting
Custom management dashboard and hosting for a private multiplayer server — start/stop control, backups, and player-facing status, built end-to-end.
Home Network & Media Platform
Security camera monitoring, remote access, and a personal media server, unified under one dashboard with role-based sign-in.
How a project actually moves.
Four stages, start to finish. No stage skipped, nothing handed off to someone else.
Discovery call
A short conversation about what you need, what exists already, and what "done" looks like.
Proposal & scope
A written scope and fixed setup price before any work starts — no open-ended billing.
Build & review
You see progress as it happens, with check-ins built around your schedule, not mine.
Launch & support
Handoff with documentation, plus an ongoing support option if you want one.
Rough pricing, so nobody's guessing.
Every project gets a fixed quote after the discovery call — these are starting ranges, not final numbers.
- One website or app build
- Basic server provisioning
- 30 days of post-launch fixes
- Custom app or dashboard build
- Managed hosting & nightly backups
- Monthly check-ins & priority fixes
- Multi-system infrastructure
- Uptime monitoring & SLA response
- Direct line for urgent issues
Your own remote-access tool, licensed per seat.
Screen sharing and unattended access for your team or your clients — hosted by me, or installed on your own hardware.
- Unattended & attended access
- Session history
- Email support
- Everything in Solo
- Shared device directory
- Basic alerting on endpoints
- White-labeled client & installer
- Dedicated hosted instance
- Priority setup & support
- Installed & configured on your server
- No recurring cost — you own it
- Support billed separately if needed
Need help after a self-hosted install? Support is available at $60/hr, or roll it into an ongoing support plan above.
Tell me what you're trying to build.
- contact@rickdeaton.com
- Phone
- (586) 298-1032
- Response time
- I respond as quickly as I can, evenings & weekends
- Based in
- Detroit, MI · remote projects welcome
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