Software Studio
We're a self-funded, husband-and-wife studio out of Northern Virginia. Alex develops the software, Macy runs data, product, and creative. We make native apps for iOS, Android, and the web (and take outside contracts when the work's interesting).
Your taste in print.
A bookshelf for the books that left your apartment. Build dangerously tall stacks, set a Top 12 that says who you are, and trade recommendations with the readers who get the mood.
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Record a conversation, get back a deck, a spreadsheet, or a clean transcript (whatever you actually need out of it). All on-device. Nothing gets uploaded anywhere.
Get notifiedTracks what's in your fridge and connects you with instagrammable recipes. Suggests dinner and reminds you what to grab at the grocery store.
A social app for your apartment building or the neighborhood blocks around your house. Borrow a ladder. Lend a cup of sugar. Find out who's actually around when something breaks.
Mok, Frij, and ShelfLife. Apps for the things you do every day (recording conversations, managing groceries, organizing books). The kind that should just work without you thinking about it.
Social apps sized for the people you actually know. Cup of Sugar is the next one in the queue — closer to the four blocks around your house than the rest of the internet.
We take on a few outside projects each year (native mobile, web apps, AI features). Same engineers, same standards as our own apps, just pointed at someone else's problem.
Fisherbird is Alex and Macy. Alex engineers — eight years of senior production work before going indie. Macy directs product and creative, with a background in data analysis, research and education. Two halves of a studio that share a marriage and an apartment.
Self-funded, out of Northern Virginia. Our products have to be lean and use the most out of the resources we have (meaning we can't afford to use crazy AI features). We're fine with that.
We choose the features (with your feedback), mold the voice, handpick the vibes, imagine the colors, name the apps, and decide what's worth shipping. We use AI assistants to write code and do security & accessibility reviews, but we know how to do it too when they inevitably mess up.