Ourstackandwhywechoseit

When you're a small studio doing full stack web, mobile, and AI work, the stack matters more than it does at a big company. Every tool you add is a tool you have to maintain, debug, and keep up to date.

The web stack

We build everything on Next.js with TypeScript. The App Router, server components, and built-in API routes mean we can ship a full product — frontend, backend, and deployment — from a single codebase.

Why Next.js specifically?

• Server-side rendering and static generation out of the box
• API routes eliminate the need for a separate backend
• The React ecosystem gives us access to thousands of battle-tested libraries
• Vercel deployment makes CI/CD trivial

For styling we use Tailwind CSS and lean on shadcn/ui for component primitives so we're not reinventing buttons and modals on every project.

Mobile development

Mobile work runs on React Native. The shared JavaScript foundation with our web stack is the key advantage.

What we gain from sharing a language

• Our team thinks in TypeScript — no context switching
• Component patterns transfer between web and mobile
• A huge chunk of business logic can be reused across platforms
• Testing utilities and CI pipelines stay consistent

We've shipped production apps on Android and the experience has been solid.

AI integration

On the AI side, we integrate frontier models through APIs — primarily Claude and OpenAI. We've built internal tooling around:

• Prompt management and version control
• Semantic caching for repeated queries
• Cost tracking per feature and per user tier
• On-device inference with lightweight models

The goal is always to make AI a useful feature inside a product, not the product itself.

The through-line

TypeScript everywhere. One language, one type system, one mental model. It's not the trendy answer, but it's the productive one — and for a small team, productivity is survival.