Custom software without enterprise bloat
Big agencies are slow to decide, and a single freelancer can struggle with the full breadth of a product. A studio-sized team sits comfortably between the two.
We bring product thinking and engineering together, so structure, UI, APIs, and the launch checklist live in one plan.
We work best with companies evaluating software development companies who want a partner that ships. End-to-end software development for startups and growing teams, covering web, mobile, AI, and cloud platforms.
What you get
- Custom software platforms
- MVP to scale delivery
- AI-capable architecture
- Reliable remote collaboration
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your software development company, we run a shared backlog, design reviews, and engineering sprints, and you keep one point of contact throughout.
- 01
Discover
Goals, constraints, data sources, and success metrics, all settled before we touch architecture or prompts. The work for teams in Singapore stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. You see progress on the critical path every week.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. On software development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
How we build it, and why
The stack is chosen per project, not applied from a template. For software development company 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 platforms 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.
A local agency in Singapore
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying Singapore market for SaaS, fintech, and AI engineering. rates for the whole team including the layers that never touch your software development, and a local shortlist is a small shortlist.
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
React Email Templates
Email systems · Resend
Reusable React Email templates sent through Resend for production transactional mail.
Freelance email kit using React Email, Resend, TypeScript, and Tailwind to create and send branded emails from a React app.
- · Reusable email templates
- · Resend delivery integration
- · TypeScript-safe composition
- · Tailwind-styled layouts
React Email · Resend · TypeScript · Tailwind
Horizan Labs
Frontend · Internship
Marketing website contribution during the Arsol internship, focused on responsive UI and frontend delivery.
Early-career site work at Arsol using React, Next.js, and Tailwind to help ship the Horizan Labs web presence with the team.
- · Responsive marketing pages
- · Team-based frontend delivery
- · Modern React/Next stack
- · UI performance and accessibility focus
React · Next.js · Tailwind · MySQL
Case Management Hub
Full-stack engineer · NestJS · Next.js
HIPAA-compliant healthcare SaaS for 150+ US organizations, with dual databases, realtime collaboration, billing, and secure client portals.
Enterprise case management platform for healthcare and social-work organizations with encryption, realtime messaging, Stripe billing, Zoom, and calendar sync.
- · HIPAA-ready architecture with encryption and audit logging
- · Realtime collaboration via Socket.io + Redis
- · Client portal and role-based access control
- · Stripe billing and document workflows
Next.js · NestJS · TypeScript · MongoDB · Redis · Socket.io
Working with teams in Singapore
Singapore market for SaaS, fintech, and AI engineering. We work with clients in Singapore remotely and keep overlapping hours in SGT. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with Singapore teams
Singapore is SGT, three hours ahead of us, so mornings overlap fully. Decisions raised at the start of your day are usually resolved before it ends.
What Singapore clients usually need
Singapore work concentrates in fintech, logistics, and regional SaaS, frequently products that need to serve several Southeast Asian markets from one codebase.
Contracts, data, and compliance
We invoice in SGD or USD. PDPA obligations and multi-market requirements, including currency, language, and payment methods per country, get scoped in the architecture rather than patched in later.
