Product engineering
From an uncertain first brief to a dependable, maintainable product people can actually use.
Independent software studio
Useful software,made carefully.
Dilettante Software turns good questions into clear, durable products—without losing the curiosity that made the idea worth pursuing.
What we make
Small team.
Serious craft.
Systems & integrations
The quiet connective tissue: APIs, data flows, internal tools, and services that hold up under pressure.
Focused experiments
Small, measurable builds that answer the important question before you make the expensive commitment.
How we work
Curiosity with
a shipping date.
“Dilettante” once meant someone who pursued a craft for the love of it. We keep that breadth of interest, then pair it with the rigor required to ship.
The result is a practical rhythm: understand the real constraint, build the smallest honest version, measure what happens, and improve from evidence.
DenoTypeScriptTursoProduct designSystems thinking
Experiment 001 · Live
The company site is the first product.
A deliberately compact, real server-backed application: rendered on demand, connected to a database, instrumented with first-party events, and packaged as a portable Docker image.
Runtime
Deno + Fresh
Server rendering with Preact islands
Data
Embedded Turso
Rust storage typed through Drizzle
No third-party tracker. No ad profile. Just anonymous sessions and product events.
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