Studio86 / About
We build software,
then we explain it.
Studio86 was founded in 2025 to build the kind of software the team had spent years wishing existed: well-engineered, plain-spoken, and answered for by the people who wrote it.
The work splits two ways. Client builds: custom websites, full-stack applications, and the maintenance that keeps both alive. And our own software: TwitchGuard, a Twitch-aware Discord moderation bot; Redacted, a managed content-protection service for creators; and 86Sheets, which turns messy spreadsheet exports into clean Google Sheets. All three are in production today, serving real users with real billing.
Running products of our own is the quality argument. Every pattern we recommend to a client (the billing flow, the error monitoring, the deployment setup) is something we already operate every day with our own money on the line.
How we work
Readable, transferable code
We build in plain, well-documented technology (Node, Postgres, plain HTML where possible) so the work is maintainable by us long-term and by any other developer if anything ever changes. Documentation, handover guides, and clean repositories come standard.
One conversation
No project managers, no ticket portals between you and the people writing the code. The person who scopes the project is the same person you'll talk to during the build and the same person who answers when something needs attention after launch.
Software we run ourselves
TwitchGuard, Redacted, and 86Sheets are in production with real users and real billing. The Stripe plumbing, the monitoring, the late-night fixes: we live with our own engineering decisions every day, then bring the same standards to your build.
Plain-English everything
Quotes are one page. Invoices say what they're for. Technical decisions get explained in words, not acronyms. If we can't justify a choice simply, we treat that as a sign it's the wrong choice.