John Ackerman

Founder & Builder at BackslashDev which pays the bills. We provide custom software development services to medium to large businesses largely in the Healthcare, Hospitality and Government Tech industries.

Product innovator and Indie Hacker by night. I have a long list of things that I built for myself or some imaginary customer that have never gotten off the ground, but have taught me a ton. Not one to give up, I continue to iterate on new ideas confident that someday I'll find the right magical incantation to delight customers with products.

Avid home bartender, food and wine connoisseur.

Products & Services

The things I enjoy working on

BuzzCraft.ai

Are you an Indiehacker or Founder struggling to get attention for your new product or service? Did you know that earned media performs up to 5x better than paid? We're launching a revolutionary new way to do earned media outreach, and we're looking for a few people to start working with. Find out if you're read to get more attention, today!

Pre-Launch, finding my audience $0
BackslashDev LLC

Custom web development agency focused on Healthcare, Hospitality and Government Tech. We've build custom AI-enabled voice applications for municipal governments and patient care management platforms with 100k+ active users.

2012-Present $1.5M+/Annual
Plavoro

Featuring one-snap recipe imports from any source, Plavoro is a cross platform web application that empowers users to digitize, organize and simplify their home cooking from recipes.

Recently Launched $0
Cocktail Book Reviews

This is a blog site I set up years ago as a traffic funnel to my recipe app ideas. These are cocktail recipe book reviews with deep analytics enabled by the Plavoro backend.

2019 - Present $0

John Ackerman

BuzzCraft.ai

BackslashDev LLC

Plavoro

Cocktail Book Reviews