Time to useful
From tapping the icon to having the answer. If that number grows between releases, something went wrong and we go and find it.
The mission
Useful, and nothing beyond useful
HerculeDev is a small software studio. We build utilities and the kind of applications people keep on the first screen of their phone: the converter, the scanner, the tracker, the thing that answers one question quickly.
Our goal is narrow on purpose. We want a person to open one of our tools, get what they came for, and forget about us until the next time they need it. An app that is thought about often is usually an app that is interrupting someone.
That shapes the business too. We would rather ship ten small things that work than one large thing that needs a team to keep it alive.
What we will not put in our software
- Advertising networksThey bring tracking code we did not write and cannot inspect properly.
- Behavioural analyticsCrash reports are useful. A map of what you tapped all week is not our business.
- Accounts for no reasonIf the tool runs on the device, it should not need to know who you are.
- Paywalls on basicsCharging for a feature that costs us nothing to run is a tax on patience.
What we care about
Three things we measure ourselves on
Downloads tell you how good the store listing was. These tell you whether the software is any good.
Permissions requested
We keep the list as short as the features allow and check it on every build, because dependencies quietly add to it.
Lines we removed
Most releases should be smaller than the one before. Features that nobody used are the cheapest performance win there is.
How we are set up
Small, and planning to stay that way
We are a small team of developers. Nobody here is a layer between you and the person writing the code. When you send a message, a developer reads it and a developer answers.
We take a limited number of outside projects at a time so the ones we accept get finished. If we are full, we will tell you that instead of adding you to a queue.
StudioHerculeDev
FocusUtilities & small apps
PlatformsAndroid · Web
Sitetheroyalsussex.com
Contact[email protected]
Work with us, or just tell us we are wrong
Both are welcome. If one of our tools annoyed you, that is the most useful message we can get.
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