Side Hustl — American Engineering Studio
We're an American engineering studio. We build the systems most agencies won't touch.
The Signal
We take the projects other shops won't.
Most agencies say yes to everything and ship whatever's easiest. We go after the ones with real engineering problems underneath the pitch deck, and build them properly: fast, tested, and made to survive contact with real users.
One studio. Every layer of the stack.
Frontend
Interfaces engineered for speed, accessibility, and motion that means something.
Backend
Systems built to hold up under real load, not just a demo.
AI
Applied AI and agents wired into real workflows, not bolted on for a press release.
Data
Pipelines and models that turn raw data into decisions your team can act on.
Cloud
Infrastructure that scales with you and doesn't page you at 3am.
Mobile
Native-feeling apps shipped to real app stores, not prototypes.
Not a mockup. This is what shipping looks like.
Every feature we build gets a real test suite before it gets called done. Here's the loop, running.
Animated demo of a TypeScript API route being written, then its test suite running and passing.
How We Work
- 01
Scope
We spend real time understanding the problem before we write a line of code. No estimate without a spec.
- 02
Build
Short iterations, real staging environments, and a working build you can click on from week one.
- 03
Test
Automated tests and real usage, not a demo script. If it isn't tested, it isn't done.
- 04
Ship
We deploy, monitor, and stay in the room until it's actually working in production.
The Stack
- Frontend: Next.js
- Language: TypeScript
- Frontend: Tailwind
- Frontend: React
- Backend: Node.js
- Data: PostgreSQL
- Cloud: AWS
- DevOps: Docker
Projects shipped
Years engineering
Niches served
Bring Us The Hard Problem
If it were easy, you wouldn't need an engineering studio for it.