About the studio

We make software the old-fashioned way: slowly, and on purpose.

The story · 2019 — now
LISBON · BROOKLYN · TOKYO

We're a team of seven across three time zones. Engineers, designers, a researcher, and one very patient operator. We've never raised money, and we have no plans to.

Every app we ship is one we wanted to use ourselves. Some of them — like Altimeter and Loopback — started as internal tools. Others, like Hearth, came from arguments at the kitchen table.

Timeline

Seven years, eight apps.

2019

Two engineers, one apartment

Started ConfirmDev as a side studio while consulting. First app, Altimeter, shipped six months later.

2021

Studio model

Quit consulting. Hired our first designer. Decided we'd never take outside funding so we could ship at our own pace.

2023

Platform foundation

Built ConfirmID, Sync, and Wallet — the shared substrate every app now sits on. Cut feature build time by ~40%.

2026

Eight apps, seven figures

Profitable, distributed across three time zones, still independent. Currently building app number nine.

Manifesto

Six principles, in plain language.

01

Small teams, long timelines

Two to three people on each app, for as long as it takes. We don't believe in feature factories.

02

Native, not hybrid

We use Swift, Kotlin, and the web platform — not a single codebase pretending to be three.

03

Independent, on purpose

Bootstrapped. Profitable. No board, no growth tax, no obligation to raise next year.

04

Privacy is a feature

We don't sell data. We barely collect it. End-to-end encryption is the default, not an upsell.

05

Pricing without games

One subscription unlocks the whole studio. No tiers, no upsells, no AI surcharge.

06

Weeks, not quarters

We ship something every Friday. Sometimes it's tiny. Sometimes it changes everything.

Team

Seven humans (and one open chair).

MC
Marin Cole
Studio lead · iOS
YS
Yuki Sato
Design · iOS
LP
Leila Park
Engineering · Web
TR
Tomas Ribeiro
Engineering · Android
AV
Ana Vidal
Research · Product
SO
Sam Okafor
Engineering · Backend
NH
Niko Hara
Operations
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