Small stack
Fewer moving parts means fewer ways to be woken up at night. If a service isn't earning its keep, it gets removed rather than monitored.
The studio
Two products,
run by the people
who built them.
Satiate Studio is a small software studio. We make our own things, keep them running, and answer the support email ourselves.
A studio is usually a shop window for other people's work. This one is a workshop — the products are the point, and there's nobody between you and the person who can fix them.
What we do
- 01Build Settee and Collectd, and run them in production ourselves.
- 02Own the whole stack, from the database up to the type on the page.
- 03Answer support as the people who wrote the code.
- 04Keep the stack small enough to understand end to end.
- 05Fix the slow, boring things before adding the shiny ones.
How we build
Ship behind a switch
Big changes go out dark, to one account, then to everyone. It means we can undo a decision in a minute instead of a release cycle.
Write it down
Every decision that took more than an hour to make gets a note. Future us is a different person with worse memory, and mostly what they need is the reasoning.
2products built and run in-house
1support inbox: company@satiate.studio, read by a human
0ad networks, pixels or cross-site trackers on what we run
What we don't do
- —No outsourcing: the people who write it are the people who run it.
- —No growing the team faster than the work needs.
- —No selling on your data or your reading habits.
- —No dark patterns: no fake urgency, no hard-to-leave subscriptions.
- —No growth hacks that make the product worse for the people in it.
- —No sponsor logos on the products we run.
The company
Satiate Studio Ltd — registered in England & Wales
Company number 17443482
Registered office: 71–75 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9JQ
Products: settee.app · collectd.io
One inbox: company@satiate.studio
Say hello,
or tell us it's broken.
Support goes to the same place as everything else, and a human reads it. If you want the reasoning behind something on this site, ask.