From a Celestial Dream to Stocky Space: Building Business Solutions Through the Lens of the Universe

The Dream That Started It All

I've always been fascinated by what lies beyond—terrestrial objects, stars, planets, the Milky Way. That vast expanse of space pulls at something deep within me, drawing my vision upward to contemplate the incomprehensible scale of it all.

One night, nearly a decade ago, I had a dream that would eventually shape the core philosophy of what I'm building today.

In the dream, I found myself suspended in black, empty space. Planets rotated across my field of vision, moving through the cosmic void with purpose and precision. Somehow, my mind began running a simulation of their movements—tracking trajectories, calculating velocities, understanding the intricate dance of celestial mechanics.

Then something shifted. The view started zooming in. The complexity multiplied exponentially. Layer upon layer of detail revealed itself, and I felt my consciousness diving deeper into the simulation. It was consuming, chillingly so. My mind went all-in, completely absorbed in visualizing the infinite complexity of it all.

Suddenly, I felt myself slipping into a non-returnable state. Perhaps it was survival instinct, but I jolted awake, shocked out of the dream by my own mind's self-preservation mechanism.

I wanted to go back. Part of me still does. But that fear of being consumed by something so vast, so intricate, held me back. Maybe someday I'll return to that space. Maybe that moment is still waiting for me in the future.

At the time, I didn't know this dream would become the foundation of something real.

The Long Road to Understanding

Fast forward nearly ten years. I had successfully built SPURGE Rentals into an autopilot operation, and I needed a bigger challenge to solve. That's when Stocky Pro was born.

Initially, we started with a completely different vision—building endpoint management software (MDM) to control devices. The technology was fascinating and entirely new to me. Working with my initial team, I threw myself into learning everything I could. I even started learning Rust, convinced it was the path forward.

Four months in, reality hit: the technology we knew wasn't enough to build the best version of an MDM solution. We'd need senior Rust engineers, deeper expertise, a different approach. So we archived what we'd built and pivoted.

We turned our attention to Desk—an integrated support system that would connect organizations with their teams. It made sense as a stepping stone, a component that would eventually feed into the larger MDM vision. After a year of work on Stocky Pro, Stocky Desk went live.

The Moment Everything Connected

During that year of building Desk, something clicked.

I was brainstorming business solutions, thinking about how products, processes, and records move through organizations—whether physical inventory, digital workflows, quantitative data, liquid measurements, or bulk items. I realized that most companies handle this in one of two ways:

They use existing software that simply tracks in/out mathematics
They get custom software built around their specific processes

Both approaches felt limited. Constrained. Linear.

That's when the dots connected back to my dream.

What if I viewed business operations the way I viewed that cosmic simulation? What if organizations were galaxies, departments were planets, products were celestial objects moving through connected nodes? What if logs served as transaction records of movement through space, with data collection points configured as mandatory or optional waypoints along the journey?

The moment that vision crystallized, Stocky Space was born.

Building the Impossible

We built 50% of Stocky Space in parallel with Desk during that first year. There were pivots—UI changes, architectural decisions, months consumed by course corrections (4-5 months, to be specific). But after those pivots, I finally saw the path clearly.

The journey became about building integrated business solution apps, each one connected to the others by nature, flowing together like celestial bodies in an orbital system.

I know it needs fine-tuning. I know we're on a massive, ambitious journey. But we're already deep into building it.

The Team Behind the Vision

Here's what makes this even more remarkable: we're doing this with a tiny team.

Me, handling backend development
Three frontend engineers (we started with just two)
One senior DevOps engineer who's seasoned in virtually every technical domain

Together, in just one year, we've built:

Stocky Desk
Stocky Space
Stocky Leads
Multiple other business applications still under development

Give us another year, and I can see exactly where we'll be: better, stronger, more stable, and generating real revenue.

The Audacity of It

Let me be clear about what we're attempting here: a software product company started with 4-6 engineers, building a global product in one year (with one major pivot), embarking on a journey that will challenge bigger, established players in the market.

We're going after them with better solutions, better technology, better efficiency, and true scalability.

It sounds chillingly scary when I say it out loud. There are strong, entrenched players out there with massive resources. But what's the fun in building something mediocre?

It will take us time to fully realize this vision. But we're committed to the journey, driven by the belief that we can build better business solutions through pure engineering and problem-solving.

Stocky Pro → And this brings us to today. To Stocky Space. To a vision born from a dream about planets rotating through the cosmos, now manifested as a revolutionary way to think about business operations.

Looking Up

I still think about that dream sometimes—the infinite complexity, the consuming nature of diving too deep into the simulation. Maybe I'll return to that space someday, better equipped to handle what I find there.

For now, I'm building that complexity here on Earth, one business solution at a time, viewing each organization as its own universe waiting to be understood and optimized.

The journey continues. The vision expands. The dream lives on.

Sometimes the universe plants seeds in our subconscious years before we're ready to cultivate them. Sometimes a dream about planets becomes a framework for revolutionizing how businesses operate. And sometimes, the scariest visions are the ones most worth pursuing.