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make IT work!A custom software studio · South Africa

Custom software, built like it matters.

We design and build production-grade web, mobile and back-end systems for fintech, retail and logistics teams across South Africa and beyond — the kind that have to work at 11pm on Black Friday, not just in a demo.

Web · Mobile · CloudFintech · POS · Logistics
01 /   Capabilities

Engineering across the whole stack.

We’re a small senior team. You get the people who design the system also writing the code — not a sales team and a hand-off.

  • 01

    Web applications

    Production React, Next.js and Vue 3 apps — from internal tools to customer-facing platforms used by thousands of staff every day.

  • 02

    Mobile applications

    Cross-platform iOS and Android with Capacitor, Ionic and React Native. Native Swift where it has to be native.

  • 03

    Back-end & APIs

    Node, TypeScript and serverless on AWS. Robust auth, payments, multi-tenancy and the boring infrastructure that has to never fail.

  • 04

    Payments & POS

    Card-present and online payments — ecentric, Paymentus, terminal integrations, reconciliation. We've shipped this in production.

  • 05

    Cloud & DevOps

    Serverless on AWS (SST), Terraform-managed infrastructure, deploy pipelines that engineers actually trust.

  • 06

    Product engineering

    We work as an extension of your product team. Discovery, scope, prototypes, then build — without the agency-vs-client adversarial dance.

02 /   Selected work

Things we’ve shipped.

A selection of recent engagements. Some clients we can’t name — so we’ve described the shape of the work instead.

Retail · Payments

A high-volume retail POS platform

Vue 3 + serverless platform powering thousands of daily transactions across a national footprint of stores. Integrated card-present payments, offline-first checkout, and a multi-app frontend monorepo serving counter, kitchen and back-office surfaces.

Outcome

Sub-second checkout, multi-store rollout, terminal-integrated payments across multiple acquirers.

Stack
  • Vue 3
  • Turborepo
  • SST
  • AWS
  • TypeScript
  • Capacitor
Logistics · Mobile

An on-road delivery & dispatch platform

Driver mobile app, dispatcher dashboard and reporting platform for a national logistics operator. Offline-tolerant route execution, real-time tracking and proof of delivery, plus a Next.js operations console.

Outcome

Hundreds of active drivers, real-time visibility across the fleet, faster route closeout.

Stack
  • Ionic
  • Capacitor
  • Next.js
  • Node
  • PostgreSQL
Enterprise · Multi-region

A cross-border asset tracking platform

Multi-tenant web platform tracking high-value equipment movement across regions and operators. Complex permissioning, audit trails, and integrations into enterprise ERP and payment workflows.

Outcome

Deployed across multiple regions and operating companies, with reconciliation time cut substantially.

Stack
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • Multi-region
03  /   How we work

Boring on the outside. Rigorous on the inside.

We’re not your agency. We’re your engineering team for the duration — code in your repo from day one, decisions in writing, no quarter-long surprises.

  1. 01

    Discover

    A short paid engagement to understand the problem, users, constraints and the existing technical reality. Output: a written scope you can read in 15 minutes.

    1–2 wks
  2. 02

    Prototype

    We build the risky part first — the integration, the workflow, the bit nobody's sure about — in working code, not slides.

    2–4 wks
  3. 03

    Build

    Weekly demos, code in your repo from day one, decisions in writing. No quarter-long surprises.

    Ongoing
  4. 04

    Operate

    We stay on as your team for ongoing development, on-call and the long tail of small improvements that compound into a great product.

    Months+
04 /   Stack we live in
Next.js
React 19
Vue 3
TypeScript
Node
Tailwind
Capacitor
Ionic
Swift
SST
AWS
Terraform
PostgreSQL
Firebase
GraphQL
REST
Next.js
React 19
Vue 3
TypeScript
Node
Tailwind
Capacitor
Ionic
Swift
SST
AWS
Terraform
PostgreSQL
Firebase
GraphQL
REST
05 /   Start a project

Got a build in mind?

Tell us about it. A paragraph is enough — we’ll come back within a day with whether we’re the right fit, and a sensible next step.

atarasoftware@gmail.com
Based in
South Africa
Working
Worldwide, remote-first
Engagements
Project · Retainer · Fractional team
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