What we do
We design, build
and operate software.
Not templates, not themes — bespoke SaaS made for one business and kept running long after launch. Here’s how that works, and how we’d work with you.
Disciplines
What goes into the work.
One team across all three — so nothing falls down the gap between design, build and running it.
Design
Product, brand and interface as one. We shape what the thing is and how it feels before a line of code — so it looks like it was made on purpose, not assembled from a kit.
- Product & UX strategy
- Interface & interaction design
- Brand and visual identity
- Prototypes you can actually click
Build
Full-stack systems on a modern, boring-on-purpose stack — Next.js, Postgres, Stripe. Fast, typed, tested. The kind of codebase you can still extend in three years.
- Next.js / TypeScript front to back
- Postgres data modelling
- Stripe payments & subscriptions
- Auth, integrations and APIs
Operate
We don’t hand you a zip file and vanish. We run it in production — hosting, payments, monitoring, the lot — so the software keeps working while you run the business.
- Managed hosting & deploys
- SSL, backups & monitoring
- Ongoing changes and fixes
- A real person who knows your system
How we engage
Ways to work together.
Pick the shape that fits where you are. Not sure? Say so — we’ll point you the right way.
Build sprint
A fixed, focused scope taken from idea to a working, live first version. Best when you know roughly what you need and want it shipped, not theorised.
Build & operate
We build it and then run it for you — production infrastructure, payments and upkeep handled — so it stays live and dependable without you hiring an engineer.
Product partner
An ongoing relationship for software that keeps evolving. We act as your product and engineering team, shipping improvements on a steady cadence.
The studio
A small team that ships — and stays.
rinKo is a software studio based in York, UK. We build the unglamorous, dependable systems a business actually leans on — booking, ordering, payments, operations — and then we keep them running.
Anyone can ship a demo. The harder, more valuable thing is software that’s still working in five years: maintained, paid for, watched over. That’s the part most agencies walk away from, and it’s the part we stay for.
The proof isn’t a pitch deck — it’s what’s already in production. See what we’ve shipped.
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