Golden Rooster
Small studio. Fewer apps.
More care.
GolRooster is an independent mobile studio. No investors, no growth targets — just software we'd want to use ourselves, built with an early-bird work ethic.
Small on purpose, not by accident.
GolRooster started because we kept getting hired to build other people's apps and going home to sketch our own. Eventually we stopped waiting for permission. No investors, no board, no growth targets to hit before Q3, deciding what gets built next.
Staying small is the whole strategy. Every decision is made by someone who will personally answer the support email if it goes wrong, and every app stays simple enough that we can hold the entire thing in our heads.
How we build
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A studio, not a startup
Our team quit client work and gave ourselves eighteen months to see if a studio of our own could pay the bills. GolRooster began as a shared Notion doc of ideas nobody else seemed to be building.
We build the same way we did on day one: slowly, by hand, with no roadmap beyond the next thing that annoys us enough to fix. No dark patterns, no growth hacks — just software that respects the ten minutes someone gives it.
Build software that respects attention — no dark patterns, just something that works.
A sustainable studio shipping fewer, better apps for as long as we can keep making them.
What we optimize for
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Journal
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Questions we hear a lot
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