An app studio and consultancy for people interesting enough to have difficult problems.

Field notebookAmersfoort, NL

Gray–Scott reaction–diffusion

Drag across the medium to inoculate the culture

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§ 00The hypothesis

Strict engineering doesn't kill strange ideas. It's the only medium they can grow in.

Prediction: held to the grid, the odd ones ship. Left loose, they die on the plate. Status: under test, one project at a time.

§ 01Field of work

We build and fix software for founders and builders.

From serious startups to scrappy side projects. If it deserves real engineering, we're your people.

Tell us about your project

§ 02The experiments

Specimen slot: today's puzzle is being prepared
Our own daily puzzle, themed to Hacker News, served live by the engine.

Exp. 01 · Constraint / structure

The Good Word

A crossword engine for publishers. Original puzzles themed to a publication's own reporting, embeddable in one snippet, published on a daily, weekly, or monthly cadence.

In production · goodwordcrosswords.comgoodwordcrosswords.com ↗

Design & business
Freya
Build
James
Wardrobe → season

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Sorted in your browser by the app's actual classifier. Hover a swatch for its verdict.

Exp. 02 · Perception / spectrum

Hue IQ

A TensorFlow model that reads your wardrobe and tells you which color season each piece belongs to.

In production · iOS & Android

Design & business
Freya
Build
James
Fastfile
# fastlane add_plugin godot

lane :beta do
  godot_set_version(from_git: true)
  godot_export(preset: "iOS")
  gym
  pilot
end
Real lane from the plugin's README. Every footgun we hit shipping our own game is handled inside godot_export.

Exp. 03 · Open source / pipeline

fastlane-plugin-godot

A fastlane plugin for shipping Godot Engine games to the app stores: headless exports with real diagnostics, export-template checks, and version sync, composing with the fastlane actions that already handle signing and upload. Ship iOS from CI without a Mac.

v0.3.0 on RubyGems · MITgithub.com ↗

Build
James

§ 03Protocol: how it works

  1. 01

    You tell us what's up

    Send over your idea, your half-built thing, or the project keeping you up at night. We read every word.

  2. 02

    We map the way forward

    A clear plan and honest scope, so you always know what's happening and what's next.

  3. 03

    We build it and hand it back

    Clean, documented, and fully yours.

See how we work

§ 04Field report

Previously at

§ 05The lab

Notes on the lab

We're a small software studio run by experienced people who love this stuff. We've shipped for startups across medtech, biotech, and analytics, handled data at serious scale, and built an app that hit the top 5 in its category.

More about us

Let's get your project moving.

Tell us what you're building or what's gone sideways. We'll take it from there.

Tell us about your project