Independent software studio · Est. 2019
Retroage Engineering is a small studio building tools for people who care about the small things — native Mac apps, attribution infrastructure, and the unglamorous pieces that make a product feel inevitable.
01 — Selected work
A short shelf, kept honest. Each app is shipped, signed, and quietly maintained.
A mobile measurement partner built for indie developers. Tracking links, deferred deep links, postbacks — for under a cent per install.
A native, keyboard-first chart studio. Paste data, get publishable graphics.
Sign, fill, and send PDFs without uploading them to a stranger's server.
Long documents, condensed. Local-first, with citations you can actually click.
Right-click superpowers for the Finder. Batch rename, hash, convert, encode.
A menu-bar timer for time you'd rather not measure. Quiet, precise, ignorable.
Verifiable receipts for the receipts. Cryptographic timestamps, no account needed.
A focused workspace for the things that matter today. The opposite of a dashboard.
A Quick Look companion that respects your eyes. Honest previews, no telemetry.
02 — How we work
We use the platform on purpose. SwiftUI on the Mac, edge runtimes on the web. Frameworks come and go — the operating system is the product.
We don't collect what we don't need, and we don't need much. No analytics SDKs, no third-party fingerprinting, no quiet exfiltration. Default off.
One feature, done right, beats five half-built. We trim until what's left carries weight. The work shows up in what we choose not to add.
Free-tier first. We architect on the assumption that every tenth-of-a-cent compounds. Your unit economics are a design constraint, not an afterthought.
03 — The studio
Retroage is independent and intends to stay that way. We take on a small number of engagements each year — usually one part product, one part infrastructure, and one part “we're not sure who else to ask.”
We work best with founders who treat software as a long game: people building instruments, not features. If that sounds like you, we'd like to hear from you.
Get in touch04 — Contact
A short note is enough. Tell us the shape of the problem, who it's for, and the timeline you're working against. We reply within two business days.
info@retroage.engineeringOr reach a person directly — developer@retroage.engineering.