MEMBER · 01FOUNDING
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Sam
Co-Founder · CEO
Runs the business side. Talks to the people. Believes the best marketing is a product that works on Monday morning.
Studio/Ethos
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We are three people making software we'd want to use ourselves.
SwiftSeg is a software studio based in Virginia. We design and engineer software tooling for people doing real work — from the household tracking its cash flow to the firm signing off on a cost-segregation study at 6pm on a Friday.
We are small on purpose. We plan to stay that way for as long as we can defend it.
01/Principles
Five things we keep coming back to.
- I.
Compound over linear.
Every system we ship should make the next one faster to build. Patterns earn their keep. One-offs carry their own cost.
- II.
Small, then smaller.
Three people, for now. We'd rather ship fewer surfaces than run a committee. Size is a feature until it isn't.
- III.
No borrowed confidence.
We use the tools we actually understand. Fewer dependencies. Fewer apologies. If it's in the stack, someone here can rebuild it.
- IV.
Software has a shelf life.
Most of what we write will be rewritten. Good architecture makes that cheap; bad architecture makes it impossible.
- V.
The spreadsheet is the baseline.
If a customer's spreadsheet does the job, our product had better clearly beat it. Not on features — on outcome.
02/The studio
Three humans. Specific responsibilities.
HQ · Virginia
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MEMBER · 02FOUNDING
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Zaden
Co-Founder · Lead Developer
Does most of the shipping. Designs when he can get away with it — designed this site, too. Lives in TypeScript, dreams in schemas.
MEMBER · 03FOUNDING
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Cameron
Co-Founder · Developer
On engineering from day one. Picks up the work nobody else wants to pick up. Has strong opinions about caching.
03/Location
Where the studio is.
The studio operates out of Virginia. We work on Eastern time, Monday through Friday. We travel to meet customers when it earns its weight; otherwise we'd rather ship.
If you're in VA and you'd like to grab coffee, we'd probably say yes.
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