Starling / Labs
Work with us

Got something you wish someone would build?

Alongside our own products, we take on a small amount of work for other people. We are picky about it — mostly because we would rather do a few things well than sell you a project we cannot give real attention to. If your idea is nothing like the list below, that is not a problem. Ask anyway.

01

The app you keep wishing existed

The one you have been describing to your friends for a year. Built properly, instead of stitched together out of four tools that half-fit.

  • iPhone and Android
  • Works when the wifi does not
  • Built around how you actually work
  • Tested by the people who will use it

02

Platforms, and the hard parts underneath

Accounts, permissions, privacy rules, APIs other people build on. The unglamorous half that decides whether a product survives its first real users.

  • Auth and accounts done properly
  • Permission rules you can actually test
  • APIs and integrations
  • Built to be handed over, not held hostage

03

Tools for rooms that run on shifts

The stuff that keeps a room running — behind the bar, at the door, in the back office. Liquid Candy started exactly this way.

  • Fast enough to use mid-shift
  • Survives a busy Saturday
  • New staff can pick it up night one
  • Set up with you, not handed to you

04

Training and learning, for adults

Onboarding, certification, coursework, safety training — for people who are busy, out of practice, or who did not have a good time in a classroom the first time.

  • Meets people where they start
  • Works in short sessions
  • Progress survives a gap of weeks
  • Honest about what it can and cannot prove

05

Events, festivals, and big weekends

Schedules, maps, lineups, vendors, and the hundred small things people need to find in a crowd with one bar of signal.

  • Schedules and lineups
  • Wayfinding and vendors
  • Updates that land during the event
  • Built for bad signal and dead phones

06

Sites that look like whoever owns them

For artists, bands, venues, and anyone who needs a real presence instead of a template with a logo dropped in the corner.

  • Shows, releases, and links
  • Fast on a phone
  • You can update it yourself
  • Actually gets found on Google

Not sure if what you have in mind is even possible? Ask. We will tell you straight, including when the honest answer is that you do not need us.

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