Your idea, built
and shipped.
We're a two-person studio that turns early-stage ideas into real, working products. No layers of management. No handoff to juniors. Just the founders, building your thing.
Most founders lose months talking to agencies before a single line of code gets written. We skip the ceremony. You explain what you need, we tell you what's realistic, and then we build it — usually in weeks, not quarters.
We've done this from the other side too. We've founded products, shipped to real users, raised funding, and learned the hard way which corners you can cut and which ones will cost you later. That's the lens we bring to your project: the judgment of people who've had their own money on the line.
Everything we build is yours. The code, the repo, the infrastructure, the documentation. We build for handoff from day one because the best outcome for you is not needing us forever.
What you actually get
Rails or Node on the backend. React or Next.js on the web. React Native for mobile. Postgres, Redis, background jobs, deployment pipelines. You don't need to hire five specialists.
Our co-founder is a pediatric psychiatrist who designs the UX for every project. She doesn't make things pretty — she makes them obvious. Products that feel simple on the first try.
You'll see working software every week. Not mockups, not slide decks — the actual product, running, doing things. If something's wrong, we catch it in days.
Monitoring. Backups. Rollback plans. CI/CD. We don't build a prototype and then tell you it needs a rewrite. The first version is production.
Things we've built
Food & Fit — our own product, a food logging app used by over 3,000 people. We designed it, built it, launched it, and maintain it. It's the clearest example of how we think about products: focused, calm, and useful from day one.
For clients, we've built internal ops platforms (scheduling, invoicing, audit trails), B2B dashboards with role-based access and data pipelines, and mobile apps with offline support and secure authentication. We can't share names, but we can walk you through the work.
Who we are
Paul
Engineer and technical co-founder of Elaris Labs. Previously lead developer at Tailwise, where he built the product from scratch and helped the team raise over $200K. Has been shipping web and mobile products for NGOs and startups since 2019. Writes clean code fast and thinks in tradeoffs, not absolutes.
Dr. Gavrilovici
Pediatric psychiatrist turned UX designer. Her clinical training means she thinks about how people actually behave, not how they should. She designs every interface we ship — and the reason our products feel effortless is because she's already solved the confusion you'd never notice.
We build software products; nothing on this site is medical advice.
Questions we hear often
Most MVPs take 4–10 weeks from kickoff to launch. We scope aggressively so you see working software from week one, not a plan for when software might appear.
You do. Fully. The repository, the intellectual property, the deployment credentials — everything transfers to you. We build as if your future CTO is going to read every commit.
Yes. We'll audit what's there, give you an honest assessment of what's worth keeping, and start building from wherever the last team left off.
That's where most of our projects start. We'll help you define scope, prioritize features, and figure out the smallest version worth launching. Then we build that.
Ready when you are.
Tell us what you're working on — even if it's just a paragraph and a rough timeline. We'll read it carefully and reply within a day with honest thoughts on how we'd approach it.
hi@elarislabs.com