Waycross Labs
Independent software studio

Waycross Labs Est. Charlotte, NC · 28214

An independent software studio. Built in the Carolina Piedmont.

35.2914° N · 80.9659° W
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About
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A workshop, not a factory.

Waycross Labs is an independent engineering studio. We build small, useful software products one at a time — the kind that hold up under real use, not the kind that demo well and crumble. The lab is small on purpose: every product gets built with care, shipped without ceremony, and judged on whether it earns its keep.

  • Build for the long haul
  • Ship without ceremony
  • Earn the keep
Founder
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JT Earl

John "JT" Earl Founder & Engineer

Ten years of software engineering inside heavily regulated finance taught JT Earl to build for the long haul — systems where being wrong was expensive. He carries that rigor into Waycross Labs as Founder & Engineer: AWS Solution Architect and AWS Developer certified, deliberately tech-stack agnostic, picking the right tool for the problem rather than the loudest one. The work itself is the point — build, create, never stop asking why, never finish learning. Waycross Labs is where that runs.

Credentials
  • AWS Solution Architect
  • AWS Developer
Products
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01 / 01 live

What the lab is shipping.

01
Live

FrameFocal

Photo galleries built for photographers and clients.

A modern, cost-optimized platform for photographers to share their work with clients through secure, password-protected galleries — with optional watermarking, client favorites, and download analytics. Quietly engineered to keep storage and CDN costs in check while looking the way photography is supposed to look.

  • Password-protected client galleries
  • Optional watermarking & download analytics
  • EXIF metadata, favorites, expirations
  • Built on AWS · S3 · CloudFront · Lambda