Product studio without agency bloat
Slides do not launch products. Design, engineering, and launch need to sit with the same team on the same schedule.
Design and engineering share one backlog, so the visuals never drift away from what can realistically ship on time.
Most people who reach this page are companies evaluating software development agencies. Custom software delivery across web, mobile, AI, and backend systems, owned by senior engineers.
What you get
- Custom software products
- Clear scope and timelines
- Senior engineering quality
- Post-launch support
- Documented handover and runbooks
- Help getting it deployed
How engagement works
Our software development service covers discovery, build, and launch, with the option to keep improving things once you are live.
- 01
Discover
Goals, constraints, data sources, and success metrics, all settled before we touch architecture or prompts. You see progress on the critical path every week.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. On software development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. The work for remote and worldwide teams stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
How we build it, and why
The stack is chosen per project, not applied from a template. For software development agency work these are the defaults, and the reason each one is on the list.
- TypeScript
- types across the whole stack, which catches the class of bug that only shows up in production
- Next.js
- server rendering and static generation in one framework, so marketing pages stay fast and app routes stay dynamic
- NestJS
- structure and dependency injection on the backend, which keeps a growing API from turning into a pile of route handlers
- Cloud
- managed infrastructure sized to the traffic you actually have
- AI
- model-backed features scoped to the parts of a product where they measurably help
What the first weeks look like
- Week 1
Scope and architecture
Users, data, integrations, and constraints, ending in a written plan for the software development that you approve before anyone opens an editor.
- Weeks 2-3
Design the critical path
The screens that carry the product, prototyped and clickable. Design and engineering review together, so nothing gets drawn that cannot ship.
- Weeks 4-8
Build in weekly slices
Every week ends with something on a real URL. custom software products lands early, because the rest of the plan depends on it working.
- Launch
Ship, measure, hand over
Release, monitoring, analytics, and a documented handover, so your team can carry it without calling us.
Weighing up your options
There are three realistic ways to get this built. Each is the right answer for someone.
A solo freelancer
Cheapest per hour and fine for a contained task. The risk on software development is breadth — one person covering design, backend, infrastructure, and launch usually means one of them is weak, and there is no cover when they are unavailable.
An in-house hire
A permanent engineer is the right call once the software development is continuous rather than a project. Before that point you are paying a salary, recruiting for months, and carrying the risk that the first hire is the wrong shape for the problem.
Arcode
A small senior team. The people who scope the software development write the code, you get weekly demos instead of status decks, and the engagement ends when the thing is live and handed over.
Work we have shipped
Quickee UI Library
Design system · Tailwind
Tailwind component library for React and Next.js with reusable UI patterns inspired by Tailwind UI.
Code Band component kit providing a variety of production-ready Tailwind components with Redux-friendly patterns for React and Next.js apps.
- · Reusable Tailwind components
- · React and Next.js ready
- · Consistent interaction patterns
- · Faster UI assembly across projects
React · Next.js · Tailwind · Redux
CRM Dashboard
Frontend · Analytics
Customer relationship dashboard with management workflows and data visualization on Next.js.
Freelance CRM surface for managing relationships and visualizing key metrics, deployed on Vercel.
- · CRM management views
- · Data visualization
- · Responsive dashboard layout
- · Vercel deployment
Next.js · React · Tailwind · Vercel
Agile IT Blog
Frontend · Astro
Performance-minded blog maintained in Astro with Markdown, Tailwind, and modular content integrations.
Stellar Stack content site where I improved performance and scalability across modular Astro components and data integrations.
- · Astro static content pipeline
- · Markdown-driven posts
- · Modular component structure
- · Performance and scalability pass
Astro · Markdown · Tailwind · SCSS
Where we work
Fully remote engagements across time zones. We work remote-first, so the time zone matters less than keeping updates clear and regular. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with Remote worldwide teams
Remote-first engagements run on written updates, a shared backlog, and a weekly demo call. We keep at least four hours of overlap with whichever time zone you work in, and everything else happens asynchronously so nobody waits on a meeting to unblock work.
What Remote worldwide clients usually need
Most remote briefs arrive as a rough product idea with a deadline attached. The first job is separating the slice that has to ship from the rest of the roadmap.
Contracts, data, and compliance
Contracts are milestone-based, invoiced against agreed deliverables. Code lives in your repository from the first commit, so there is no handover cliff if you take the work in-house later.
