riktom.com is a small software venture run by Tommy Nijem and Ricky Browning, two developers based in the Hahira area of South Georgia. We build free, practical web apps for the communities and landscapes we actually live in.
The idea is straightforward: South Georgia has rivers worth fishing and forests that burn. There are good public data sources out there — NASA satellites, USGS river gauges, National Weather Service alerts — but they're scattered across government websites that weren't designed with local outdoors folks in mind. We pull that data together and present it in a simple, mobile-friendly format that's actually useful when you're standing in a boat ramp parking lot at 5 a.m. deciding whether to launch.
RiverWatch gives fishermen a quick read on river conditions across Georgia using USGS National Water Information System gauge data. Instead of digging through raw gauge numbers, RiverWatch translates current flow and stage readings into plain-language conditions — Good, Fair, or High Water — so you can make a fast decision about where to fish.
Fire Watcher is a wildfire situational-awareness dashboard built for Lowndes County and the surrounding counties of South Georgia. It pulls NASA FIRMS satellite fire detections, National Weather Service red flag warnings, and drought monitor data, and displays everything on a map updated hourly. It started as a personal tool during the dry spring of 2026 when smoke from multiple fires in the area made it clear there wasn't a good local resource for tracking what was burning and where.
We don't sell subscriptions. We don't require accounts. We don't track you beyond what's necessary to serve the page. Our apps are free to use because useful local tools should be free, and because the underlying data is already publicly funded.
We're a small operation — two people building things on nights and weekends. If something's broken or you have a feature request, we'd genuinely like to hear from you.
Reach us at hello@riktom.com.