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; Ruby, an all-in-one Discord bot for game and community servers; and Simply Pure, a barcode scanner for Android and iPhone that scores what is actually in a product. All five are live today, four of them serving real users with real billing and Simply Pure in free beta.
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 code, because we live in it
We build in plain, well-documented technology (Node, Postgres, plain HTML where possible) so the work is still maintainable years later. That matters more here than at most studios: client sites are hosted and maintained by us, so we are the ones who inherit every shortcut we take.
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, 86Sheets, Ruby, and Simply Pure are in production with real users, and four of the five carry 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.