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Grumpy Dev · studio
Grumpy Dev
The senior studio behind Half Shell — plain English, no bait-and-switch.
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The brief
Brief: SMEs keep getting platform theatre or a junior-heavy agency behind a slick deck. When the demo ends, nobody senior is left to push back, say when a spreadsheet is enough, or keep production boring.
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What we shipped
Grumpy Dev is the senior voice in the room — map how work actually runs, name what is broken without politics, ship the smallest honest fix: custom build, glue, or discipline first.
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Studio principles
- Senior hands on the work — not bait-and-switch to juniors after the pitch.
- Plain English on fit: we say when we are not the answer or when the work needs care before it ships.
- Laravel and PHP when that is the honest stack — sized to who maintains it after we leave.
- Ongoing partnership or clean handover — hero-dependent systems are a failure mode.
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Watch it
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Screens from the build
Real UI captures — placeholders until assets are dropped in.
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