Services · Client work in our own stack

The work we take on, and how far we take it.

We do the whole thing: the app, the backend behind it, the subscription that pays for it, and the App Store listing that brings people to it. Every service below is something we run on our own apps, not a capability we added to a list. If you only need one piece, that is fine.

01 ServicesIn-house · running our own apps

What each one includes.

Mobile apps, end to end

Native iOS in Swift and SwiftUI, or React Native when one codebase should serve iPhone and Android — we pick the stack to fit the product instead of selling one religion. Either way you get the parts most shops hand back to you: App Store Connect setup, TestFlight, screenshots, review submissions and the rejections that come with them. Widgets, App Intents and Apple Watch companions where they earn their place.

A shipping app in the App Store
Swift and SwiftUI, or React Native for both platforms
App Store Connect, TestFlight, review and rejection handling
Widgets, App Intents, Watch app where useful

AI product features

Food-photo recognition, coaching that reads a user's own history, and vision models that run against real camera input rather than a demo dataset. The hard part is not the model call, it is the retries, the failure states and the cost per user, and that is the part we have already solved once.

Photo or camera analysis pipelines
LLM features with real failure handling
Prompt and cost tuning against live traffic
Fallbacks that keep the screen usable

Backend and infrastructure

Postgres schemas that survive a schema change, authentication that does not lock users out, edge functions for the work that cannot live on a phone, and row-level security written so a leaked client key cannot read another person's data.

Postgres schema and migrations
Auth, accounts and account deletion
Edge functions and webhooks
Row-level security audited row by row

Subscriptions and paywalls

Subscription plumbing that reconciles: StoreKit and Adapty wired to your backend, webhooks that do not silently drop a renewal, and paywalls tested against live traffic instead of opinion. Trials, family plans, referrals and win-backs included.

StoreKit or Adapty integration
Server-side receipt and webhook handling
Paywall variants and pricing tests
Trial-to-paid funnel reporting

Growth and ASO

Keyword and metadata work in App Store Connect, Apple Search Ads run against a real break-even cost per install rather than a vanity budget, and cohort analytics that tell you whether the last release helped or hurt.

Keyword research and metadata rewrite
Screenshot and preview-video sets
Apple Search Ads campaign management
Retention and cohort reporting

Product design and brand

Interface design that survives contact with a real device, an icon that reads at 60 pixels, and an App Store screenshot set that does the selling. One visual language from the icon to the last settings row.

App icon and brand system
Screen design and interaction detail
App Store screenshots and preview video
Design handoff or direct implementation

02 How we workIndependent studio · a few projects at a time

Four steps, no deck.

01
A direct conversation.
You email, we talk about what you are building and what it has to do. No discovery workshop, no proposal deck.
02
A written scope and a fixed price.
You get the pieces, the order, and what “done” means for each one, before any money moves.
03
Builds you can hold.
Work goes out as TestFlight builds as it is made, so you are looking at the real app on your real phone, not screenshots of progress.
04
Ship, then stay.
We handle submission and review, and we are still around after launch. Our own apps are the proof: the oldest has been in the App Store since 2024 and is still maintained.

Hype Dev LLC is an independent studio in Houston, Texas. We take on a small number of projects at a time, so a question reaches the team doing the work instead of an account-management layer, and a decision takes a message rather than a meeting. It also means we will tell you plainly if we are not the right fit or not available.

The apps we build and run

If you have a project, email us.

Tell us what you are building, what platform, roughly when you need it, and the budget range you are working with. You will get a real answer from the team that would do the work, usually within one business day.

Start a project team@hypedev.co