Honesty over comfort
If we think your idea has a fatal flaw, or that you do not need us, we will say so on the first call. It costs us work and saves you money.
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About us
A small studio that builds like an in-house team
We started REACT CODER because we were tired of watching good product ideas die in bad delivery. Nine years later, the model has not changed: senior people, small teams, honest estimates.
Our story
Founded on a simple frustration
In 2017 our founders were on opposite sides of the same problem — one running product at a scale-up, one leading engineering at a large agency. Both kept seeing the same failure: projects sold by senior people, then delivered by whoever was on the bench.
So we built the studio we wished we could have hired. Every person who works on your project has shipped production software for at least five years. The person who scopes the work is on the team that builds it. We deliberately run a small number of engagements at once, and we turn work down when we are full rather than staffing it thin.
Today we are a distributed team of forty across North America and Europe, and we have shipped more than a hundred and twenty products for founders, scale-ups and enterprise teams.
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Values
Five things we will not compromise on
Small senior teams
Four excellent people beat twelve average ones. We staff projects with the smallest capable team and keep it stable to the end.
Own the outcome
We care whether the product works in the market, not whether the tickets closed. That means pushing back on requests we think will hurt you.
Leave it better than we found it
Every project ends with your team more capable than when we arrived. Documentation and pairing are part of scope, not extras.
Sustainable pace
No crunch, no heroics. Rested engineers write fewer bugs, and a team that burns out mid-project is a risk you are paying for.
Measure, then decide
Opinions are cheap. We instrument what we ship and let the funnel settle arguments about what to build next.
The team
People you will actually work with
No account managers between you and the people writing the code.
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Amara Reyes
Founder & CEOFifteen years shipping consumer and B2B products. Sets the engineering bar and sits in on every kickoff.
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Daniel Kwon
Head of EngineeringFormer platform lead at a fintech scale-up. Owns architecture reviews and release quality.
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Sofia Marchetti
Design DirectorProduct designer turned researcher. Turns fuzzy problems into flows people actually finish.
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Tobi Okafor
Mobile LeadSwift and Kotlin specialist. Obsessive about cold-start time and battery behaviour.
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Nisha Patel
Delivery ManagerKeeps sprints honest. Your single point of contact from kickoff to handover.
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Lucas Brandt
DevOps LeadBuilds the pipelines, monitoring and rollback paths so releases are boring.
Client feedback
In their words
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They ran discovery properly instead of jumping to code, and it saved us a quarter of wasted build. The app shipped on the date they gave us in week one.
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Marcus HaleVP Product, Ledgerly
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The handover was the best I have seen. Documented architecture, a real test suite, and two weeks of pairing with our in-house team before they stepped back.
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Priya DesaiCTO, Northbeam
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We came in with a rough idea and left with a product strategy. They pushed back on features we did not need, which is rare for an agency.
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Jonas LindFounder, Cadence
Come and talk to us
Whether you are hiring a studio or just want a second opinion on a technical decision, the first conversation is free.