TheHiveMinds — Product engineering & software studio

We buildmobile appspeople actually use.

We are a three-founder software studio. We design, build and ship mobile apps, web platforms and backends — and you talk to the people writing the code.

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01The studio

No account managers.
No layers in between.

A product engineering studio in Chennai, India. We take a business problem, design the system, write the code and ship it to real users — mobile, web and the backend under both.

Work with us See our terms

Products shipped & live

4 public, 2 under NDA

Apps published to both stores

Apple App Store & Google Play

Countries served

Spain, India, USA

Founder-written code

No agency layers, no handoffs

02How we work

From a conversation
to a live product.

Four stages, roughly nine weeks for a typical MVP — and exactly what lands in your hands at the end of each one.

01Week 1
Discovery & architecture
Core flows, stack choices and API contracts, agreed before anyone writes code.
What you receive
User flow map
Stack decision record
API contract draft
Milestone plan
02Weeks 2–3
High-fidelity design
Interactive wireframes that behave like the finished product. No generic templates.
What you receive
Clickable prototype
Component inventory
Design tokens
Edge-case screens
03Weeks 3–8
Build & test
Typed code, secure routes and native-grade performance, shipped in bi-weekly sprints.
What you receive
Sprint builds
Preview environments
Test coverage
Performance budgets
04Week 9 onward
Launch & support
Store submission, domain routing and telemetry — handed over ready to run.
What you receive
Store listings live
Telemetry dashboards
Handover docs
Support window

03Featured work

Four products.
Cleared to show.

Every project below is in the hands of real users right now — open any link and check. Two more are live but stay off this page under NDA.

Doinu

Basque music discovery platform

2025

Client · Wakame Management, Spain

A Basque music streaming and discovery app on iOS and Android, plus a Next.js analytics dashboard for the label.

FlutterNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQL

App Store Google Play Client website

HiveCampus

School attendance & parent communication app

2026

One digital register for a school day — attendance, homework, leave and report cards, priced flat by school size, not per student.

FlutterNext.jsSupabase

Website Google Play

SAEC Spotbus

Real-time GPS fleet tracking

2024

Client · S.A. Engineering College

Campus transport tracking with separate driver and student portals, live on a real bus fleet.

FlutterGoogle Maps APINode.jsGPS telemetry

GitHub

HR Attendance

Geofenced biometric attendance

2025

Employee attendance with geofenced check-ins, biometric auth and hard anti-tamper shields.

FlutterSupabaseGeofencing APIs

GitHub

04What we build

Four disciplines,
one team that owns all of them.

Most studios hand your project between specialists. Here the same three people carry it from the first wireframe to the store listing.

Service 014 shipped

Mobile applications

Native and cross-platform apps for iOS and Android, built to feel instant.

Liquid-smooth, animation-led UX
Offline-first local caching engines
Media streaming & playback
Complex hardware integrations

Typical stack

FlutterDartSwiftKotlin

Where you can see it

Discuss mobile applications

05Our stack

Chosen for the job,
not for the résumé.

A deliberately small set of technologies we know deeply. Hover any of them to see which of our shipped products it runs in.

Mobile

One codebase, two stores

Web

Static-first, SEO-ready

Backend

Typed, tested, containerised

Data & cloud

Relational core, serverless edges

In productionHover a technology above to trace it back to a live product.

06Engagement

The terms, before
you have to ask for them.

What a build costs you in time, what you pay and when, who owns the code at the end, and what happens after launch. Same numbers we put in the contract.

Book 30 minutes Write the studio

MVP timeline

6–10 weeks

Discovery to a live store listing, run as bi-weekly sprint milestones with an interactive preview build at each one.

Payment schedule

30 / 40 / 30

Upfront, at milestone delivery, on final handover. No milestone is invoiced before you have seen working code for it.

Code & IP ownership

100% yours

Design files, Git repositories and cloud infrastructure are provisioned under your organisation from day one, with full access.

After launch

30 days + 3 months

Free bug fixes for 30 days and technical support for 3 months. Extended support and scaling contracts run ₹20k per month.

How it runs

01A channel, not a queueSlack or WhatsApp with the engineers writing your code, plus a structured weekly sync. No account manager relays your question.

02One owner per laneClient architecture, scoping and delivery, backend and cloud — a co-founder owns each and reads every line before it ships.

03Chennai, UTC+5:30We are based in Chennai and have delivered for clients in Spain, India and the USA.

04Small scopes are welcomeA single screen flow, an API rebuild, a store submission that keeps getting rejected — we will tell you honestly if we are the right fit.

07Track record

Products we've built —
for ourselves, and for clients.

Not everything below started as a client brief. Some of it we built and shipped under our own name first. Step through it — every claim links to something you can open.

Live fleetin daily campus operationGitHub

S.A. Engineering College put Spotbus on its real bus fleet — live Google Maps telemetry, route delay alerts, and separate driver and student portals. Open the repository and the code is right there.

Sector experience

Domains we have already shipped into

each backed by a project above

Music tech

Streaming, discovery, playback

via Doinu

Transport

Fleet tracking and live maps

via SAEC Spotbus

Workforce

Attendance, roles, admin control

via HR Attendance

Education

Attendance, homework, report cards

via HiveCampus

No invented testimonials. We publish only outcomes you can verify yourself — store listings, public repositories and download counts. When a client is ready to be quoted by name, their words will appear here and not before.

08Questions

Straight answers,
before you ask.

The things people actually want to know before hiring a studio: who codes it, what it costs, who owns it, and what happens when it breaks.

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Not answered here? Email us

The founders. There are no account managers or sales representatives. The people who architect your product are the ones writing every line of it.

Mobile: Flutter, Swift (iOS) and Kotlin (Android). Web: Next.js, React, Vite and Tailwind CSS. Backend: FastAPI (Python), Node.js, PostgreSQL, Supabase and Docker, deployed on AWS or serverless.

A high-fidelity MVP usually runs 6 to 10 weeks from discovery to deployment. We work in bi-weekly sprint milestones with a direct chat channel and interactive previews, so you always see progress.

You do — 100%. From day one, design assets, Git repositories and cloud infrastructure are provisioned under your organisation, with full access and visibility.

We are based in Chennai, India (UTC+5:30) and work with clients in Spain, India and the USA. Day-to-day communication runs on Slack and WhatsApp, with structured weekly syncs.

30 days of free bug fixes plus 3 months of technical support are included. Extended support and scaling contracts are available at ₹20k per month.

30% upfront, 40% at milestone delivery, 30% on final handover. You do not pay a milestone until you have seen working code for it.

Yes. Alongside full products we take on focused work — a single mobile screen flow, an API rebuild, a store submission that keeps getting rejected. Book the 30-minute call and we will tell you honestly if we are the right fit.

09Direct scheduling

Book thirty minutes.
No cost, no pitch deck.

Pick a slot below and it lands straight in a founder's calendar. Bring a rough idea, a broken build, or a spec — all three are fine.

A founder, not a repYou are on the call with the person who would architect and write your product.

Leave with a planStack recommendation, rough milestones and an honest read on feasibility.

Thirty minutesEnough to get somewhere real, short enough that it costs you nothing.

Confidential by defaultHappy to sign an NDA before you share anything sensitive. Just ask.

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10Start here

Tell us what you
want to build.

Three taps below and we will write the first draft of your email for you. It lands in the studio inbox, which all three founders read — whoever owns that area replies, usually within a day.

Build your brief

3 questions

01 — What do you need?

02 — Where are you now?

03 — When do you want it?

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We buildmobile appspeople actually use.

No account managers.
No layers in between.

From a conversation
to a live product.

Discovery & architecture

High-fidelity design

Build & test

Launch & support