About

Lupine Systems is a small software studio. We build apps and tools, run the infrastructure behind them, and occasionally help other people with theirs.

Our background is in infrastructure and SRE, with a good amount of backend development alongside. We have spent years keeping production systems alive, which has given us strong opinions about how software should be built: observable, recoverable, and respectful of the people whose data it holds.

What we believe

Privacy is a feature, not a setting buried three menus deep. Sensitive data should be encrypted, minimised, and never quietly monetised. We design as though the person using our software is the one we answer to, because they are.

You should be able to leave. Exportable data and self-hosting are not afterthoughts. Software that traps you is software that has stopped trying to earn your trust.

Boring is good. The best production systems are the ones you forget are running. We aim for that, and when something does go wrong, we want it to fail loudly, recover cleanly, and teach us something.

Open where it counts. Our flagship work is open source and self-hostable, on a single codebase that serves self-hosters and our hosted users alike. No proprietary forks, no features held back behind a paywall.

What we are working on

Sheaf is our flagship project - open-source plural system tracking, built to be a sustainable replacement for SimplyPlural. Beyond that we have more apps in the pipeline (currently focused on Android) and take on a limited amount of consulting.

The company is more than any single product. It is the home for the kind of software we want to exist in the world, and a way to do that work sustainably.

Say hello

We are happy to hear from people building similar things, contributors, and anyone curious about the work. Get in touch.