A few years ago in software development, a "what if?" was a $30,000 question. Months of scoping. A devops shop. A budget most small teams couldn't justify. So most "what ifs" never made it past the whiteboard.

That math has changed. Fundamentally.

I drive a Chevy Bolt. My father-in-law watched gas prices climb and asked me a simple question: "So what does it actually cost you per mile?" Not a rough estimate. Not a calculator. My real cost, from my real electricity rate, from my actual charging sessions. I couldn't easily answer him since the electricity to charge my car was bundled with the rest of my household.

So I built GarageWatts. From question to production in two weeks.

Not vibe-coded. Architected. OWASP compliance, secure authentication via Supabase, a scalable data model, and 120 unit tests plus 74 end-to-end Playwright tests covering the critical paths. The kind of foundation that won't need to be rebuilt when it grows. What used to require a funded team and a four-month runway took two weeks because AI-augmented development with an experienced architect behind the wheel has completely changed the unit economics of building software.

The idea was real. The answer was real. The cost to prove it was a fraction of what it would have been three years ago.

GarageWatts is live, it's free, and if you drive an EV and charge Level 1 at home, it will tell you exactly what every mile costs you. Check it out at GarageWatts.com.

And if you run a small business sitting on a "what if" that could genuinely change how you work or help your bottom line, let's talk.