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Software for the thing that
shouldn't be this hard.

Melru is a two-person studio of senior engineers. We build web apps, websites, internal tools, and AI-powered products, and you get custom software without the big-agency overhead, from the people who will actually build it.

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Web apps Internal tools AI & automation MVPs for founders Websites Fixed scope, clear pricing
What we build

Software that solves a real problem in your business.

We start with the problem, not the tech stack. Then we build the smallest thing that fixes it and grow from there.

Custom web apps & internal tools

The dashboard, portal, or back-office tool your team keeps wishing existed. Built to fit how you already work.

  • Replace spreadsheets and manual processes
  • Customer and staff portals
  • Reporting and admin dashboards

AI integration & automation

Add AI features to the software you already have, or automate the work that eats your week.

  • Document and email processing
  • Chat and search over your own data
  • Workflow automation between your tools

MVPs for founders

Have an idea and need it in front of real users? We take it from a description to a launched product you can charge for.

  • Scope to a version 1 that ships
  • Landing page, app, and payments
  • Built so you can keep iterating

Websites for small businesses

A site that looks like your business, loads fast, and is easy for you to update. Recent work includes a site for a slime shop.

  • Design and build, start to finish
  • Shops, bookings, and contact forms
  • Hosting and domain set up for you
How we work

From first email to working software.

Short cycles, plain language, and something you can click on early.

01

Tell us the problem

Email us what's slow, manual, or missing. We'll ask a few questions and tell you whether software is the right fix.

02

Agree on a scope

You get a written scope, a timeline, and a price before anything is built. No surprises later.

03

See it early, often

You see a working version early, not at the end. You react, we adjust.

04

Launch and keep going

We deploy it, hand over everything, and stay available for the next round of improvements.

Why Melru

Two people who have a low tolerance for inefficiency.

Melru is a husband and wife team. We're both senior software engineers who spent years at a large software company, one of us on the backend and one on the frontend, and we came away with a lot of experience in how big companies build software. We also came away convinced that a small, well-scoped team using AI could build good solutions faster than a huge one.

We're problem solvers by habit. When something at work or at home isn't as easy as it should be, one of us ends up building the fix. That habit is how Melru started, and it's the same thing we bring to your project.

The name is our street. It's short, easy to say, and it's where we work.

BE

The systems thinker

Backend · Architecture · Data

Thinks in systems and wants to understand exactly how things work, all the way down. Holds every detail in his head. Loves a spreadsheet.

FE

The one who ships it

Frontend · Product · Delivery

Sets the vision and pushes it through to done. Gets annoyed when software is harder to use than it needs to be, then fixes it.

You'll talk to the people building it. There's no one else.
Things people have brought us
  • This website we depend on is hard to use. Can you make a tool that makes it easier?
  • We need a system to organize and visualize the data for a huge project with a lot of moving parts.
  • Reserving test environments is a Slack back-and-forth and we keep stepping on each other. Can a bot handle it?
  • I want to know where I actually stand financially, in a way I can understand.
  • I've had an idea for a game for years. Could we build it?
  • Our small business needs a website that actually looks like us.
Get in touch

Have a problem software could fix?

Send a few sentences about what you're dealing with. You'll hear back from a person who can actually build it.

We reply within one business day.