Your idea, built into something people use.
We are the small-business side of Eight Mile, a London engineering company. We make apps, websites and products for founders, small businesses, and the person who has been describing the same idea to their friends for a year. You bring the idea. We do the rest, and you own all of it.
See your name on a site before you talk to anyone
Type your business name, pick a colour and one of five looks, and watch a site drawn around it — desktop and phone, in about a minute. Nothing is saved and there is nobody to talk to yet.
Four kinds of thing, and the honest price of each
Most of what people ask us for is one of these, or a mix of two. If yours is not on the list, say so anyway — the answer is often that it is simpler than you think.
A website that actually works for you
For anybody whose current site is a business card nobody reads
Not a template with your logo dropped in. A site built around the one thing you want a visitor to do, fast enough that nobody leaves waiting for it, and easy enough to edit that you will actually keep it up to date.
An app people keep on their phone
For an idea that only makes sense in somebody’s pocket
We build for the web first, so it works on every phone the day it launches and you are not waiting on an app store to approve a typo. When there is a real reason to be in the stores, we put it there too.
A product with customers in it
For founders taking an idea to its first paying users
Accounts, subscriptions, permissions, an admin screen you can run the business from — the unglamorous half that decides whether a product survives its first hundred users. We build the smallest version that is genuinely useful, then grow it from what people actually do.
Software that does the boring bit
For a small business drowning in spreadsheets and copy-paste
The job somebody on your team does every Tuesday morning, done by software instead. Usually the cheapest work we do and almost always the one that pays for itself first.
Idea, design, build, launch
Four stations, and you know where you are in them at every point. Nothing here happens behind a curtain and there is no reveal at the end — you watch the thing arrive.
Idea
We work out what you are actually making.
3 – 5 daysDesign
You see it before it exists.
1 – 2 weeksBuild
It gets made, in the open.
3 – 8 weeksLaunch
It goes live in your name, and we stay reachable.
2 – 4 daysSites that exist because somebody described them to us
Six of the 26, all live — click one and it opens. Every one of them was built by Eight Mile, the company this studio is part of, and started as a paragraph in an email from a person who was not sure it was worth sending.
Numbers, on the website, where you can read them
You have probably been told “it depends” by three studios in a row. It does depend — and these are still the bands the work falls into, so you can decide whether to bother with the call.
A site
You need to exist online properly, and soon.
A handful of pages built around one thing you want a visitor to do. Written with you, not filled in around your logo, and yours to edit afterwards without calling us.
- Design made for you, not picked from a shelf
- Everything a phone needs, first rather than last
- Set up so search engines can read it
- Editable by you, with a walkthrough
A first version
You have an idea and you want the real, smallest version of it.
The version you can put in front of actual users and learn something from. Accounts, payments, an admin screen you can run it from — the parts that decide whether a product survives its first hundred people.
- Everything in a site, plus the product itself
- Accounts, payments and permissions
- An admin area you can run the business from
- Thirty days of fixes after launch
Somebody in your corner
It is live, and you would rather not think about it.
Hosting, updates, backups and a person who answers. A few hours of changes each month, so the small improvements actually happen instead of piling up on a list.
- Hosting, backups and updates
- A few hours of changes a month
- Someone who answers within a working day
- No lock-in, and no notice period
What a studio this size can do that a big one cannot
None of this is a perk. It is what happens when the person you are talking to is also the person writing the code.
You talk to the person building it
No account manager in the middle relaying what you said. The person writing the code is in the conversation from the first call, which is why nothing gets lost between the two.
The price is agreed before we start
You get a written scope and a fixed number. If we get it wrong, that is ours to absorb — not a change request three weeks in.
You own all of it
The code, the domain, the hosting, the accounts. Everything is in your name from day one, so you can walk away with the lot whenever you like. Very few studios will put that in writing. We do.
We will tell you when you don’t need us
Sometimes the honest answer is a £30-a-month tool and an afternoon of setup. We would rather say so and be the people you call next year.
Tell us the idea. Even the rough version.
A paragraph is plenty. You will get a reply from the person who would build it, usually the same day, and a straight answer about whether it is worth doing — including when that answer is no.