Slick Engineering & Consulting, Inc.

06/02/2026

Your check engine light is on. The code is P0301. A shop can charge $100–150 just to read it. 🚗

CarSense reads it for you.

Plug in a ~$40 Veepeak OBDCheck BLE+ Bluetooth adapter and our AI explains, in plain English: what the code means, how urgent it is, whether it's safe to keep driving, the likely causes, and what the repair typically costs — tailored to your exact make, model, and year.

✅ Free to start
✅ Bring your own ~$40 adapter — no expensive proprietary dongle locked to one app
✅ Pre-Purchase Inspector: scan a used car before you buy and get a Buy / Caution / Walk Away verdict with negotiation points

Now live on the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/carsense-ai-car-diagnostics/id6760952816

05/25/2026

NameVerdict — a 60-second clearance report for your next product name.

You pick a name. We screen it across six lanes — domain availability, USPTO trademark filings, common-law product use, social handles, search results, and category collisions — and hand you a GREEN / YELLOW / RED verdict you can actually act on.

Built it because I kept seeing indie founders fall in love with a name, build the site, design the logo... then discover the .com is parked at $8K, or there's a trademark filing in their exact class, or a 3K-follower Etsy shop already owns the brand on Instagram.

$39 for a single name. $99 for five (handy if you're stuck between candidates).

👉 nameverdict.com

05/20/2026

Today we're launching PacketMole — the newest product from Slick Engineering.

It's a hardware kit that solves a problem most software VPNs quietly fail at: making your devices look like they're at home when you travel. A pre-configured GL.iNet Brume 2 stays plugged in at your home router. A pocketable Beryl AX travels with you. They're bound by a Tailscale tunnel — and unlike most competing kits, PacketMole works on the CGNAT-based ISPs (T-Mobile Home Internet, Starlink, cellular hotspots, most apartment WiFi) that silently break WireGuard.

$349 one-time. No subscription. No account required.

Watch the 23-second teaser at https://packetmole.com — full specs, comparison vs alternatives, and the order link all there.

Or watch it here:

05/03/2026

Just shipped: NameVerdict — a $39 brand-name clearance tool for founders.

Naming a product is the most reversible decision you make — until it isn't. By the time you've printed the t-shirts, registered the domain, set up Stripe, and onboarded your first 100 customers, renaming costs days and dignity.

The existing options miss the middle. Free tools (Namechk and friends) check 2-3 signals and stop. Trademark attorneys do thorough searches at $400-1,200 per name. There's nothing in between for a busy founder running a Tuesday morning gut-check on a shortlist.

NameVerdict runs six independent clearance lanes in parallel:

🌐 Domains (.com / .io / .app / .dev / .ai live registry data)
⚖️ USPTO trademarks (scoped to your product's Nice class)
🔍 Common-law collisions on GitHub, Reddit, App Store, Product Hunt, Crunchbase, Etsy
🌍 Google's first-page search results
🎯 Category overlap
📱 Social handles on X, Instagram, GitHub, TikTok

Each lane verdicts independently. The aggregate comes back as a GREEN, YELLOW, or RED verdict per name — with every piece of evidence cited inline so you can audit the call.

$39 for one name. $99 for up to five.

→ https://nameverdict.com

04/04/2026

FlickerSpec is now live on the App Store.

We built FlickerSpec to solve a real problem — LED lights can flicker at frequencies you can't see, but your eyes and body still feel it.

Headaches, eye strain, and that annoying banding you see on camera? That's LED flicker.

FlickerSpec turns your iPhone into a professional flicker meter with IEEE-compliant measurements. No expensive lab equipment needed.

Whether you're a lighting professional evaluating products, a facility manager checking office lighting, or a videographer troubleshooting banding — FlickerSpec gives you the data you need in seconds.

Download it here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flickerspec-led-light-auditor/id6759629660

Learn more: https://flickerspec.slick-engineering.workers.dev/

03/29/2026

We're now on X. Follow for behind-the-scenes looks at what we're building, app updates, and thoughts on AI-augmented development.

Same mission, one more place to connect.

04/19/2022

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/04/inspired-prehistoric-creatures-nist-researchers-make-record-setting-lenses

Five hundred million years ago, the oceans teemed with trillions of trilobites — creatures that were distant cousins of horseshoe crabs. All trilobites had

02/15/2022

An on-demand laser ‘auxiliary sun’ may soon help power satellites and cut down on creation of space junk.

07/29/2021

For some 30 years, scientists have used superconducting materials to record the tiniest specks of light imaginable — individual photons, or single particles

07/08/2021

Canbridge-based Riverlane software now in use on Seedqc chip