Mobile apps, custom platforms, and problems other shops walk away from. Handled by a studio of 20+ tech-industry veterans who quit the corporate theater and kept the craft.
A person reads it. Usually the same day.
Broadly: hard things, properly. Specifically:
iOS and Android, shipped to both stores and kept alive long after launch. Native-feeling apps built by small senior teams, the same way we built our own.
The system off-the-shelf software won’t do: client portals, internal tools, APIs, the integration everyone says is impossible. Scoped honestly. Shipped in weeks, not quarters.
Aging systems, stalled rebuilds, vendors who vanished mid-contract. A decade of government modernization work taught us how to renovate without burning the house down.
We audit and remediate to WCAG 2.2 and Section 508. Everything we build is accessible from the first commit, because retrofits always cost more.
Building our own products keeps the saw sharp between client work. Latest off the bench:
For the consistently inconsistent
Energy and mood tracking for ADHD brains. Ten-second check-ins, three times a day; research-backed signals like burnout risk, mood shield, and peak windows. No streak guilt, no notification spam, no data selling. Built by our ADHD brains, for brains like ours.
Built with React Native · Next.js · Hono · Supabase
The bench is rarely empty. The next one’s already drying.
We’re twenty-some engineers, designers, and problem-solvers from big tech, agencies, and government IT. We grew up loving computers, then watched corporate process slowly make them unfun. Six-month roadmaps for six-week work. Meetings about meetings. So we left, kept the discipline, and ditched the theater.
Small teams of senior people. Nobody learns on your dime. The people who scope your project are the people who build it.
No account managers. You talk to the engineers and designers doing the work. We answer our own email.
Built for humans. Accessible, fast, and maintainable isn’t a premium tier. It’s the default setting.
Fun is fuel. A team that loves the work ships better software. Most of us have ADHD; hyperfocus is a renewable resource.
Varnish Labs
