Custom software studio

Go on. Bonk some bytes.

We're a small team of senior engineers who build custom software for people who can't buy what they need off the shelf. There's a serious paragraph about that further down. Free tools first, arcade after.

Start a project Free tools

The toolbox

Small tools we got tired of googling.

All four run entirely in your browser. Nothing you paste here leaves the page — no request is made, because there's no server to make one to.

base64utf-8 safe

Handles emoji and accents properly.

jsonformat · validate

Formats in place. Tells you exactly where it broke.

unix-timeseconds or millis
Now:
ISO 8601—
Local—
Relative—
Milliseconds—
uuidv4 · crypto random
—

Uses crypto.getRandomValues, not Math.random.

outputend of the line

Nothing you typed above went anywhere. It ran in your browser, hit no server, and stopped here.

On to the arcade Or just email us

The arcade

Four ways to avoid emailing us.

We built these in an afternoon, which is either reassuring or alarming depending on what you need from us.

bonk-a-byte click or tap · 30s
Score 0 Best 0 Time 30

Purple is a byte. Red is a bug — don't ship it.

bit-flip make the number
Solved 0Streak 0
Target
42

00000000 = 0

Eight bits. One byte. Flip to match.

ship-it arrows / wasd / swipe
Commits 0Best 0
Ship it Collect commits. Don't merge into yourself.

The snake is your git history. It gets messy.

hotfix type it exactly
Time 0.0sBest CPM —

Production is down. No pressure.

Typos are rejected in review.

The serious paragraph.

Bonk Bytes builds custom software for teams whose problem doesn't fit a SaaS subscription. We work in small senior teams, in your repo, on your cloud account, with a demo every week.

Web applications

Internal tools, customer portals, and the dashboards your team currently maintains in a spreadsheet.

APIs & integrations

Getting two systems to talk when neither was built to. Usually one of them is older than we are.

Cloud infrastructure

Deploy pipelines, Terraform, and the unglamorous plumbing that decides whether releases are boring.

Everything is yours. Source code, infrastructure in your account, runbooks, and a walkthrough with your engineers.
TypeScriptRustPython GoPostgresAWSTerraform

Questions, mostly fair.

Why are there games on your homepage?

Because a page full of stock photos and the word "synergy" tells you nothing about whether we can build software. These do. Everything on this page is hand-written, runs in one file, and works on your phone.

Is this a real software company?

Yes. We build production systems for teams in healthcare, logistics, and fintech. The arcade is the front door, not the product.

What kind of projects do you take?

Roughly four weeks and up, where the work is genuinely custom. If an off-the-shelf tool would solve it, we'll tell you which one and send you on your way.

Who owns the code?

You do. It lives in your organization from the first commit, and copyright transfers on final payment.

Will you work with our existing engineers?

Preferably. Shared repo, shared reviews, shared on-call if you want it. Handover is much cheaper when your team never left the code.

How do we start?

Send us a paragraph about what you're trying to build. You'll get an honest answer from a person within two business days.