Fiks’d IT is an independent tech-repair shop in Sedalia, Missouri. We fix phones, tablets, laptops, game consoles, and a steady stream of weird stuff people bring in (e-bikes, smart fridges, a clock once). Everything we ship in FixLogic comes from a problem we were trying to solve at our own counter first.
Like most independent shops, we tried to run on someone else’s software. We paid for a POS, a separate ticketing tool, a separate inventory app, an SMS plug-in, an email plug-in, a customer-portal add-on, and a reporting dashboard that pulled from half of those things and missed the rest. Every month the bill went up and every month a customer’s ticket fell between two tools that were supposed to talk to each other. The frustrating part wasn’t the cost. The frustrating part was that no one piece had been built by someone who’d actually used the whole stack at once.
So we started writing our own. The first version was a single POS screen we used at one register. Then a ticketing module because the inflow had outgrown a clipboard. Then inventory because we kept ordering parts we already had. Then customer messaging because phone tag was eating our day. Each new piece was added when an actual day at the shop forced it — not because a roadmap document said it should ship in Q3.
That approach has a side effect we like: every feature in FixLogic exists because somebody at our counter needed it. Nothing is decorative. Nothing is a checklist item. If you’ve ever looked at a feature in another tool and thought “why is this here, who would ever use this” — we promise we have done the same thing, and we’ve tried to keep our product clean of it.