01 — Engineering partner

A stable orbit is not a still one.

We have kept Fantastic Frank's site running since 2015. Almost none of the original code survives, which is the point — software that lasts is not software nobody touched. Some of what we build we hand over, and the client runs it without us. Some we run ourselves, and have for a decade.

Stack: TypeScript / Next.js / React Native
Engagement: 6–24 months
Longest running: Since 2015
Status: Taking work

What we do

Custom SaaS platforms
The product itself — designed, built and shipped. Multi-tenant, roles, billing: the parts every platform needs and nobody enjoys building twice.
Apps
iOS and Android from one React Native codebase, by someone who has been shipping to the App Store since 2009.
Taking over existing projects
A half-built product, an agency that left, a codebase nobody has opened in a year. We take it over and get it live.
Hosting and continuous development
We host and run what we build, and keep developing it. Fantastic Frank has been on that arrangement since 2015.
Technical due diligence
An honest read on a codebase before you buy it, invest in it, or inherit it.

All services

How an engagement runs

01
A week to something you can click
Not a deck. A working prototype in the real stack, so the conversation is about the thing instead of about a description of it.
02
In production inside a month
Then a weekly cadence you can plan around. Small changes, each one reversible on a bad afternoon — big-bang releases fail in ways nobody can debug under pressure.
03
The part after handover
Some clients run it themselves from there. Some keep us for years. We build the same way either way, because we cannot know in advance which one you will be.

Our approach