Founded 2021
A studio that builds its own products, too.
Most studios ask you to trust a portfolio of work done for other people. We'd rather you judge us by the apps we own, run and answer support email for.
01 The short version
Digital Services is a digital product studio founded in 2021. It designs, builds, launches and markets mobile applications and web products, and publishes four apps of its own on the Apple App Store, Google Play and Huawei AppGallery.
The studio started the way a lot of good ones do — by building the thing we wanted to exist. Entrepreneurs Business Ideas came first, then a grocery and budgeting app, then a notes app, then Bazarly, a local marketplace that now runs on its own domain in six languages.
Along the way we learned the unglamorous parts properly: how Apple's review team reads a privacy declaration, why an Android release that works everywhere still fails on one manufacturer's battery optimiser, what it takes to lay out an app in Arabic without the interface falling over, and how a store listing actually converts.
That's what a client hires: not a deck, but the accumulated scar tissue of having shipped and maintained real products. We do the same four stages for other people's ideas that we do for our own.
02 How we work
Five things we're stubborn about.
Cut before you build
The most valuable thing that happens in scoping is subtraction. Version one exists to be used, not to be complete.
Ship on real devices
A build that only works on the simulator is a demo. We test on the phones people actually own, including the cheap ones.
Own the whole chain
Design, engineering, store submission and search all sit with one team, because every handover between agencies costs a fortnight and a feature.
Launch is the middle
OS updates, store-policy changes and crashes on devices you've never held — the work continues after release, and we plan for that.
Say specifics
Seven languages. Three stores. Four apps. Numbers you can check beat adjectives you have to take on faith — for readers and, now, for the models that summarise us.
03 The record
Verifiable, not decorative.
Every figure below points at something you can open in a store listing right now.
App Store · Google Play · Huawei AppGallery
See the products04 Questions
About the studio.
What does Digital Services do?
Digital Services is a product studio that takes a digital idea from concept to a live product. We cover four stages — design, build, launch and marketing — for mobile apps, web applications and digital products. Founded in 2021, the studio has shipped four of its own apps across the App Store, Google Play and Huawei AppGallery.
What kind of products do you build?
Mobile apps and the web products around them. Our own catalogue covers a local marketplace (Bazarly), a grocery and budgeting app, a notes and task app, and a planning tool for founders — so consumer apps with accounts, sync, offline data and store distribution are the shape of work we know best. We also build web applications, APIs and marketing sites.
Do you work with people who only have an idea?
Yes — that is the usual starting point. You do not need a spec, wireframes or a technical co-founder. You need to be able to describe the problem and who has it. The scoping stage exists to turn that into something buildable, and a good part of it is deciding what not to build first.