ABOUT US
We built the thing we needed.
Quarkino started as an internal answer to a problem we had five times over: every client project began by rebuilding the same infrastructure. It became the core all our work runs on.
Why it exists
We ran a studio. Every project started the same way — authentication, content, media, an admin panel — and every project's budget went into infrastructure before it went into the product anyone had actually commissioned.
We tried the obvious fix first: copy the last project and adapt it. Within a year that meant five codebases, five slightly different versions of the same authentication code, and a security fix that had to be applied five times, one of which had drifted far enough to make the merge genuinely unpleasant.
Quarkino is the second answer. One core, configured per project, extended through formal extension points rather than by editing shared code. Nothing forks, so a fix reaches everything, and the core stays clean at client number twelve.
The opinions that shaped it
These aren't values-poster material — they're technical positions with consequences visible in the product.
Infrastructure isn't differentiation.
Nobody chose your product because your password reset works. Building it five times is a tax, not a craft.
Customisation must not mean forking.
The moment a client's peculiarity enters shared code, the platform starts dying. Every extension point exists to prevent that.
Production quality isn't a later phase.
Tests, validation, authorisation, and latency budgets are part of “done”. Adding them after launch costs several times more and never quite gets finished.
Say what it doesn't do.
We'd rather lose a project in week zero than deliver a disappointment in week nine. It's also just cheaper for everyone.
How we run projects
Four phases, named deliverables, and assumptions written down rather than discovered.
- 01
Discovery
1–2 weeks
- 02
Configure
1–2 weeks
- 03
Build
2–8 weeks
- 04
Launch and hand over
1 week
Want to work with us?
Tell us what you're building. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people for it.
- We reply within one working day
- No sales sequence, no drip campaign
- NDA before the call if you'd prefer