Hello, world — we’re live

Short note: the studio site is live. This journal is where we’ll post updates about the apps we’re building, decisions we’re making, and the occasional opinion that may or may not age well.

“Short note” may be a stretch by the end of this post, so here’s who we are and what to expect.

Who we are

Zydeno is a small, remote-first, self-funded app studio, founded in 2026. We make focused apps for everyday things: learning to type, building habits, planning a wedding, a garden or a trip, tracking migraines or pollen, writing a resume, heading out to fish or to ride. Each app tries to do one job well and stay out of the way the rest of the time.

We build for iPhone and iPad, Android, Windows through the Microsoft Store, and Chrome and Edge as browser extensions. Our iPhone and iPad apps also run on Apple-silicon Macs, and native Mac apps are in our plans. Not every app goes everywhere — we bring an app to a platform when it’s genuinely better for being there, not to fill a grid.

Some apps started on the phone and later moved to the browser or the desktop, because that’s where the job they help with actually happens. A typing trainer, for instance, belongs near a physical keyboard. We’ll write about those moves as they happen.

What this journal is for

Mostly, the reasoning behind the work. App stores tell you what an app does. They don’t tell you why a feature was left out, why a screen looks the way it does, or why an app arrived on one platform before another. Those decisions are the interesting part of making software, and they’re usually invisible.

So expect posts about how we design, how we test, how we name things, how we think about pricing, and what we’ve got wrong along the way. Expect the occasional update when an app arrives somewhere new. Don’t expect press releases.

How often we’ll post

We don’t do weekly posts. We don’t do monthly posts. We post when there’s something real to say.

That’s partly a matter of honesty and partly a matter of size. A small team that commits to a content schedule ends up writing filler to meet it, and the time comes out of building the apps. We’d rather publish less and mean all of it.

What we care about

Apps that start quickly, do what they say and don’t ask for more than they need. Interfaces you can understand without a tutorial. Careful testing on the devices people actually own, not just the newest ones. Plain language in store listings and support replies. None of that is unusual as a goal; it’s just easy to lose sight of under pressure, and writing it down here is one way of holding ourselves to it.

Staying in touch

If you want to know when there’s something new, follow us on the socials in the footer. Or just check back once in a while — we’re in this for the long game.

And if you use one of our apps and have something to tell us, we’d like to hear it. Every email gets read.