HANDCODEARTISANAL SOFTWARE · WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN

Independent minds. Considered work.

Made by people.
You can tell.

Bespoke applications, thoughtfully architected and written by hand in our Brooklyn studio.

Small batches. Considered dependencies.

Visit the workshop

Spring commissions now being considered.

Four practitioners reviewing printed code together in a sunlit brick-and-oak studio
THE BROOKLYN STUDIO   /   A WORK IN PROGRESS.

We do not use AI. We also do not use the word ‘leverage.’

01 / The practice

Several pairs of hands.
Strong opinions in each.

A small, independent software consultancy. We build web applications, internal tools, and systems that deserve a little more consideration.

01

Source

Established languages, maintained by people who still answer email.

PROVENANCE BEFORE PREFERENCE
02

Make

Every line written by a person. Every decision discussed by several. No agents were consulted, including the ones that offered.

HUMAN-WRITTEN. PEER-REVIEWED.
03

Finish

Reviewed, refined, and reluctantly declared finished.

NOTHING LEAVES UNCONSIDERED

02 / Spring commissions

This season’s
batch.

Currently accepting commissions for systems that will not need to be rewritten next quarter.

From the workshop

Bespoke applicationsTaking commissions
Internal toolsLimited availability
AuthenticationResting. We will not wake it.
Rate limitingAvailable by request.
Please do not make us.

We reserve the right to decline projects that appear to want a chatbot.

SMALL BATCH
BY HAND
BROOKLYN, NY

03 / Our people

A practice.
With practitioners.

Engineers, designers, and a founding partner who prefers the word practitioner.

Engineering

People who know what they wrote.

And, in most cases, why. Each build has a dedicated team, a second pair of eyes, and someone who remembers the original conversation.

Design

Nothing here is the default.

Interfaces considered down to the last detail. The space between these sentences was discussed on Thursday.

The founding practice

Available. Within reason.

We keep the studio small enough to know every project. Large enough for a disagreement about tabs.

04 / Williamsburg, Brooklyn

From the
workshop.

Open studio visits by appointment.
Please do not arrive with a laptop open.

Please do not tap on the glass.
Our engineers are holding context.

Handcode's brick storefront, with Artisanal Software and handcode.love painted on the window

A smaller, more considered internet.

Let’s make something
worth maintaining.

We reply personally. This may take a person some time.

The sourcing conversation

Tell us what
you have in mind.

A few considered details. A brief, if you must.

This is a satirical studio. Your brief stays in this browser; nothing is sent.

A note on the craft

Perfectly serious.
Entirely fictional.

Handcode is a satire of artisanal everything, software culture, and the peculiar things we pay a premium for.

The studio and its photography are imagined. The website was made with AI. We have chosen to sit with that.

No commissions or studio appointments are actually booked here.