01 / LIVE · HOMESTEADING
Rabbit Calc
A practical rabbit-breeding calculator for the homesteader. Find it through Florida Hillbilly’s meat-rabbit guide.
Independent software studio · Custom solutions
Apps for people who actually do things.
We build small tools for real problems — Android apps, web utilities, and custom solutions. Got an idea but no idea how to build it? We’d like to hear it.
What we build
Small tools. Clear jobs.
Here’s what you can use today, and what we’re getting ready to ship. Live means usable. In production means we’re still working on it.
02 / LIVE · WEB UTILITY
Email List Scrubber
Clean an email-list CSV before paying for verification. Remove duplicates and malformed addresses, flag questionable contacts, and download cleaned and audit files. Optional network checks go deeper. Free to use.
03 / LIVE · OUR ROOTS
Florida Hillbilly
Hands-on gardening, homesteading, fishing, DIY, and the occasional lesson learned the hard way. Our established home on the web.
04 / IN PRODUCTION · ANDROID
SplitShot
Compare two photos with sliders, fades, and pivot views. Show a before-and-after, then export the comparison. Currently being prepared for release.
05 / IN PRODUCTION · ANDROID
DockLight StayAwake
Keep your Android screen awake when the device isn’t lying flat. Choose charging-only or anytime, then restore the previous timeout when you’re done.
06 / IN PRODUCTION · ANDROID
DockLight Sensor Ghost
A movable, translucent overlay for live sensor readings, battery information, and your screen-timeout setting. Read-only diagnostics, without accounts or tracking.
Studio principles
Software should serve the owner.
Docklight Labs products are built around control, durability, and direct usefulness.
Offline firstCore functions should keep working without a connection. Networking should enhance an app, unless the job itself genuinely needs the internet.
Bought onceSoftware: buy once, own it. No forced subscription to keep using what you bought. Ongoing services are different — a service can have a subscription.
Private by defaultNo unnecessary logins, tracking, or cloud storage. If the function genuinely requires them, we explain why. We hate that stuff too. We don’t want to be those people.
Focused scopeOne clear job beats a sprawling feature list.
“Ship what you can own. That’s the lane.”
Who we are
Built from practical experience.
I’m Darrell Batton. Most people call me db. DockLight Labs is my software studio, and Florida Hillbilly is part of the same family. Different projects, same guy.
I started with a TRS-80 and a cassette recorder. Then came the original Macintosh at school, the Commodore 64 and 128, the Amiga, and the first PCs. I bought a $4,000 XT that was obsolete in less than a year. An expensive education.
In the military, I worked with mainframes and alphabet soup like NSA and JCL. Paper tape, punch cards, 9-track tapes, removable disk platters bigger than wedding cakes, and 8-inch floppies. Eventually somebody introduced me to this strange new thing called a CD.
Computers have been there for almost as long as I can remember. The machines change. Figuring out how the pieces fit together — and making them useful — is still the job.
AI tells me I’m good at systems work. And let me tell you why that matters…
Contact
Have a practical problem worth solving?
Got an idea but don’t know how to make it happen? Tell us what’s getting in your way. We take on custom work, too — small tools, websites, and practical systems. We’d be happy to look at your problem and see whether we can help.