Orca Solutions

Make the
moving parts
make sense.

An independent software studio. Products, open tools, and custom systems that make complicated things useful.

Explore the work Bring a problem

Founded and led by Jason Fricano

An abstract orca sculpture assembled from curved black and ivory forms around a vivid vermilion cylinder.

Useful takes different forms.

Selected work / 01—04

01

Roost

A personal film library, thoughtfully organized.Proof of concept

Personal film library / Product

Every film.
A place of its own.

Keep films, favorites, and personal lists together in a library built for browsing, sorting, and rediscovery.

Try the browser demo

Public proof of concept with fictional films. Changes stay in your browser; no accounts or live search.

From the working product
Roost’s dark-themed home screen showing a personal film library with fictional films and custom lists.
Roost / Actual browser demo
02

iYosi

A clearer answer to a local question.In development

Local information / Mobile pilot

A local question.
A clearer answer.

A pilot exploring clearer information about designated and reported smoking areas in Metro Manila. Making that distinction visible is part of the product.

View the landing preview

In development. The preview is not a released mobile app.

iYosi app icon.
iYosi / Pilot identity
03

StreamOtter

Live information that knows when it is out of date.Release candidate

Live application state / Open tool

Fresh information.
Honest signals.

Kafka-backed state for browser applications, with explicit signals when a view is stale. Because the last thing a system showed you may no longer be the whole picture.

Read the source & docs

A conceptual view of the system

  1. 01KafkaEvents arrive
  2. 02StreamOtterState reaches the browser
  3. 03ApplicationFreshness stays visible
LiveStale
Illustrative flow, not a live connection or product screenshot.
04

Lontra Creek

An invented watershed. A real streaming system.Public demo planned

A tool, put to work / Demonstration

An invented creek.
A real pipeline.

A fictional watershed exercises a real StreamOtter and Kafka pipeline. A place to make streaming behavior visible, inspectable, and a little more tangible.

The public demo is not yet hosted.

StreamOtter identity artwork featuring an otter and flowing data lines.
StreamOtter / Identity artwork for the underlying tool

An index of the studio’s work. Open a project to inspect the details.

02 / The studio

A small studio.
A name on
the work.

Orca Solutions is founded and led by Jason Fricano.

It is the home for the products, open tools, and custom software he designs and builds. Product decisions, architecture, and delivery have a clear owner.

The work starts with what needs to become clearer: a decision, a workflow, a changing system. Then comes software that makes the next step possible.

Make room for what’s possible.

We build software that clears the way for your ideas to grow.

03 / Your moving parts

What needs to
make sense?

A workflow that resists the tools. A product that needs to exist. A system ready for its next chapter.

Bring the situation.
Start with a conversation.

Email Jason