Company

A small studio, on purpose

Avenpa makes small web software and keeps it small. One live product, a short list of things being worked on, and a person on the other end of the contact form.

Why small

Small tools are usually made by someone who needed them. That person is still around afterwards, which is the whole reason the quality holds: the same person who writes the calculator answers the message saying it is wrong.

So there is no roadmap to defend and no theme for the quarter. Work is picked by whether the job is real, and finished before the next one starts. A tool that answers a question and lets you leave is doing its job.

How a tool gets made

Four steps. If we skip one, it shows up on the page.

Notice the job

It starts with someone doing arithmetic twice, or converting a unit in a chat window. If the job is small, specific and repeated, it is a candidate.

Build the smallest version

One page, one answer, no settings screen nobody asked for. If it needs an account to be useful, it is probably two products wearing one coat.

Test the numbers

Anything that produces a figure a person will act on gets asserted in the test run. The rate year is printed on the page so an old answer is visibly old.

Ship it, then stay reachable

The tool goes up, and the contact form goes to a person who can fix it. Unfinished work is labelled as unfinished rather than dressed up.

Where things stand

Written plainly, so nobody has to guess how far along anything is.

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This site

You are reading it. It is the studio's front door.

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Everything else

In the workshop. Not announced, not linked, not counted as a product until it works.

Work with us

Small, well-defined jobs are what fits: a tool worth building, a page that has to be fast, a calculation that keeps being got wrong. Describe the job and we will say whether it is ours to take.

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