Software thatships.Production-grade, end to end.
Novagen is an independent software studio. We build our own products end-to-end — and take on a small number of senior engineering engagements for teams building real, hard things.
Whole systems, taken from idea to running.
Our own products span two or three of these at once. Client work takes the same shape: we scope the API, write the frontend, and run the production. No handoffs, no delivery team.
React Native and Expo for both Lustr and Vybe. Offline-first where the use case needs it, native modules where it doesn’t, and a build pipeline you can actually ship from on a Friday.
Multi-tenant SaaS, internal tools, and dense creator surfaces. Postgres-first, typed end-to-end, no magic. The kind of system you can read in an afternoon and still ship from on day five.
Explicit schemas, deterministic math, observable from line one. When the problem is "real money flows through this," LLMs sit on the cold path and computation does the work.
Real LLM features inside real products. Retrieval, evals, structured outputs, guardrails. Versioned and observable, not a notebook with a pretty prompt.
AWS, Vercel, Cloudflare. Terraform where it pays for itself, GitHub Actions for the rest. Sentry and a structured logger on day one — not when the alerts start.
Four products, built in-house.
Designed, built, and run by Novagen, end to end. Click into any of them for the full picture — what it is, how it's built, and where it's headed.
Lustr — premium auto detailing, on tap.
A mobile-first product for a real auto detailing business. Transparent pricing, frictionless booking, photo proof of work, retention loops that don’t feel like spam — built for customers who pick a detailer the way they pick a watch.
Vybe — log the night, remember the year.
A social memory and venue logging app for 25–35-year-old urbanites. Log venues, rank them, see what your crew is doing tonight, earn real perks from the places you actually go. Editorial drops, not algorithmic mush.
Meridian Studio — content command center, by design dark.
A dense, opinionated production console for a solo creator. Linear’s density meets Bloomberg’s data confidence meets Raycast’s polish. Purpose-built dark — not a light theme with the colors inverted.
Meridian Trading — deterministic options income.
An automated options income engine. ORATS-grade IV data, a 6-tier mathematical scorecard with hard gates, 8 risk checks with circuit breakers. Defined-risk premium selling, end to end. LLMs only for cold-path narration — the trading pipeline is math.
We're Novagen.
Novagen is an independent software studio. We design, build, and operate our own products — four of them today — and take on a select number of senior engineering engagements for clients who need production-grade work.
Every product on this site is built and run in-house. Every engagement is scoped in writing, with clear deliverables and a defined off-ramp. No subcontracted delivery, no surprises.
How we work.
No surprise invoices.
Three engagement models. Pick the one that matches your problem. Each has a clear scope, a written off-ramp, and a number agreed before we start.
Architecture reviews, hiring panels, fractional CTO for pre-seed founders, second-opinion on a vendor proposal.
- Same-week start
- Async-first · weekly syncs
- Cancel anytime, no auto-renew
Greenfield product, a hard rebuild, or a ship-or-die quarter. We scope, design, build, and hand off.
- Paid discovery week (creditable)
- Two-week sprints, demo Fridays
- Full IP + source + runbook handoff
- 90-day stabilization included
Slot in alongside your team for a quarter or a year. Senior engineer hours where you need them, when you need them.
- Min. 3-month commitment
- In your Linear, Slack, on-call
- Quarterly review & off-ramp