Welcome to kota.com

An engineer and his dog named KOTA

People ask if it’s for sale. I don’t have any intention of selling, but I could possibly be persuaded with a few commas.

This site is a sandbox. A story. A slow reveal of the things we’re building—from dashboards to tech, and everything in between. If you’re here, welcome. If you’re curious… stick around.

Kota the Bernese Mountain Dog with a Porsche

Open to the right offer

KOTA.com may be available for acquisition. I’m not actively looking to part with it, but I will consider serious inquiries at an asking price of $495,000.

Domain name only. Full payment through Escrow.com.

Inquire about KOTA.com

The family got bigger

Meet Okaa Mocha

Apparently, one Bernese Mountain Dog was not enough.

Her full name is Okaasan—Japanese for “mother”—but around here, she answers to Okaa. More accurately, Okaa Mocha. She came to us as a rescue after spending her earlier life being used for breeding in an Amish puppy mill.

That was her old job. Her new job description is considerably better: be the kindest, sweetest dog imaginable and collect a lifetime of overdue belly rubs.

She also has a very specific way of requesting those belly rubs. After growing up in an Amish barn around chickens, Okaa doesn’t simply tap us with one of her enormous Berner paws—she pecks. Just a quick, determined little paw-peck until everyone understands that the petting should have started already. Whether the chickens actually taught her is impossible to prove. We have chosen to believe they did.

She went from spending her life in a stall to living the life she always deserved: air conditioning, soft beds, endless affection, and rides in Porsches.

Kota may still have top billing in the domain name, but Okaa has already negotiated a very strong supporting role.

Illustration of Okaa Mocha, a Bernese Mountain Dog wearing an OKAA name tag

FAQs

What are your plans for kota.com?

We have big plans for kota.com, but I can’t reveal those yet—so please stay tuned!

What kind of engineer are you?

Let’s just say I design and build products—and not the “it works most of the time” kind. I’ve developed some of the best-selling products in the world in their respective categories, and I’m just getting started. The plan is simple: take that same obsession with quality and pour it into products under the KOTA name.

I live for details. Materials, tolerances, fit, finish—it all matters. To me, engineering isn’t a job; it’s an obsession. I probably have a touch of the ’tism.

That’s the standard. Because if I’m going to build something with my name on it, it’s going to be the best in the world. Just like my dog Kota—best engineer, best dog. Simple as that.

Can I purchase kota.com?

Possibly. I’m not actively looking to part with KOTA.com, but I will consider serious inquiries at an asking price of $495,000. The offer is for the domain name only, with full payment completed through Escrow.com.

Have you had offers?

I’ve had someone offer me $100 because their aunt’s last name was Kota—sweet sentiment, but not exactly convincing. On the other end, I’ve had serious six-figure offers come through. Still, nothing that makes me want to part with it.

I collect Porsches, and it would take the right offer to make me reconsider owning KOTA.com. That is why the current asking price is $495,000.

Can Bobby be a part of KOTA?

Ah yes, Broke Bobby—our resident dreamer, part-time philosopher, full-time Subaru driver. Bobby talks a lot about becoming a business owner one day. He also talks a lot about 0% APR and how “Subies handle better in the snow.” Inspiring stuff.

We love Bobby. He’s got ambition. He’s got ideas. What he doesn’t have… is a Porsche. Or a plan. Or a product. But hey, he’s got heart and the ability to talk enough shit as if he’s made it. As if he owns a four-letter domain.

One day, maybe Bobby will trade in his dreams (and his Subaru) for something German and rear-engined. Until then, he remains KOTA’s unofficial mascot of motivation—a reminder that you can’t build greatness by just talking about it.

Is this site a joke?

A joke? Really? You think someone would spend good money on a four-letter dot-com—the digital equivalent of beachfront property—just to make a joke?

Yes, actually. That does sound like something I’d do.

But no—this isn’t a joke. This is KOTA. A site about an engineer, his Berner, and an unhealthy obsession with building ridiculously good products. Stick around. You might laugh. You might learn. You might end up wanting to name your dog after a domain too.

Man in the Arena

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

Illustration of Kota, a Bernese Mountain Dog wearing a KOTA name tag