Web app or mobile app: which should you build first?
A practical way to decide between building a web app or a mobile app first, based on how your users will actually reach you.
Solutions
Six services, and the same people on all of them, from the first sketch to launch day.
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Concept study
A finance app rebuilt for daily use
Northwind · invented client, our own process
Products
The products we build and run ourselves, held to the standard we hold client work to.
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Now live
Dusk
Living wallpaper, drawn on your GPU
Concept study
An AI product taken to launch
Lumen · invented client, our own process
We bring product thinking, design, and engineering together to build digital products from the ground up.
People use products we’ve built, every day. Most of them will never know our name. We think that’s the point.
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What we do
iPhone and Android apps, designed and built end to end.
02Internal tools and dashboards that replace manual work.
03AI features and assistants, tested before they ship.
04Websites and web applications that load fast and stay fast.
05Brand identity and product interface, designed as one system.
06Connections between the tools you already use, so repeated work stops.
Selected work
We work on client products and build a few of our own. Either way, we care about what happens after launch.
Concept study · Product design · iOS engineering
A complete redesign and re-engineering of an established finance app, delivered in twelve weeks.
Case study
Concept study · Web app · Automations
A custom operations platform that replaced six disconnected spreadsheets across the business.
Custom build
Concept study · Brand · Next.js development
Product design, brand and engineering for a new AI product, from first prototype to public release.
Product
Concept study · Figma design · Shopify build
A complete rebuild of the purchase flow: fewer steps, faster pages, more completed orders.
Commerce
The practice
The people who design the product are the people who build it. Nothing is lost in a handoff, because there isn’t one.
What we ship
Our products
We don't only build for clients. We design, build, launch, and run products ourselves. It keeps us close to the realities of building software: getting something out the door, seeing how people use it, and improving it from there. See all three.
Consumer · SocialA social journal for everyday life. Write a line, add a photograph, and see the same day back from a circle small enough to name. One post a day, and no endless feed.
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AI · AssistantAn AI assistant for everyday work, tested against evals on every change. We wrote the test suite before the features, and we use it ourselves every day.
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macOS · WallpaperLiving wallpaper for the Mac. Every frame is drawn on the GPU rather than played from a file, so it moves all day and never loops. Seventeen compositions, each one yours to retune.
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Consumer · Social
AI · Assistant
macOS · Wallpaper