Hire us · For small businesses & founders

Your app or website, built with care.

We design and build iOS apps, web apps and websites for small businesses and founders: the same studio that makes Firepit and OurLife, working on your idea.

  • iOS apps
  • Web apps
  • Websites
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What we build

Three things, done properly.

Whether you are launching a product or giving your business a better home online.

01

iOS apps

Native iPhone apps, with Home Screen widgets and Apple Watch support where they help.

02

Web apps

Sign-in, accounts and real features, built to work well on phones and desktops alike.

03

Websites

Fast, accessible sites that explain what you do and make it easy to get in touch.

Proof

Our own apps, built the way we would build yours.

Firepit

Web app · Private family app

A private, secure place online for one family: the tree, the photographs, the stories and the dates that matter. Only the people you invite can come in.

  • Posts and albums: photographs, short videos and voice notes, with comments, hearts and tags
  • A family tree: link parents and marriages and drag people into place on the family map
  • A story page for every person: memories, recipes and a written life story
  • Family birthdays, anniversaries and events in each person’s own calendar
  • Encrypted connections, private sign-in and walls that keep every family separate

Described from start.firepit.best

Firepit on a phone

OurLife

iOS app · In development, coming to iPhone

The shared home base for couples, coming soon to iPhone and Apple Watch.

  • Chores that feel fair, with a weekly points scoreboard
  • Settle up: log who paid, split any ratio, one clear balance
  • Wedding planner: checklist, budget and countdown
  • Home Screen widgets and an Apple Watch app In development
  • Synced over iCloud, with an optional Face ID lock

Described from ourlife-waitlist.vercel.app

OurLife waitlist page on a phone

Secure by default

Security and the legal basics, built in.

Not extras you have to ask for.

Sign-in options

Optional two-factor authentication and passkeys.

Encryption in transit

Traffic between your users and your app is encrypted.

Security headers

Sensible browser protections configured from day one.

Rate limiting

Protection against abuse of sign-in and other sensitive endpoints.

Terms & Privacy

Legal-ready Terms and Privacy pages, ready for your review.

Process

Simple, from first call to launch.

  1. 01

    Call

    We talk through your idea, who it is for and what it needs to do.

  2. 02

    Fixed quote

    You get a fixed quote for an agreed scope before any work starts.

  3. 03

    Build

    We build in small steps you can see and try along the way.

  4. 04

    Launch

    We ship it to your users, on the web or the App Store.

Packages & pricing

Clear prices, fixed quotes.

Every project still gets a fixed quote for an agreed scope after our call. Prices in US dollars.

  • Spark Site 5 pages

    $2,900

    Founding price: $2,320

    Typical timeline: 2 weeks

    Includes: Up to 5 pages, custom design, mobile, basic SEO, analytics, contact form, 2 revision rounds, 30-day support.

  • Storefront / Booking Site

    $5,900

    Founding price: $4,720

    Typical timeline: 3–4 weeks

    Includes: Everything in Spark, plus booking or a Stripe/Shopify store with up to 25 products, payments and email notifications.

  • Launchpad App MVP iOS or web

    $14,900

    Founding price: $11,920

    Typical timeline: 4–6 weeks

    Includes: One core flow, iOS (SwiftUI) or web, accounts, basic backend, App Store submission, 30-day bug fixes.

  • Full Build App Backend, payments, 2FA

    $29,500

    Founding price: $23,600

    Typical timeline: 8–12 weeks

    Includes: iOS plus Watch or web companion, backend, accounts, passkeys/2FA, payments, admin panel, analytics.

Founding client offer: 20% off

Founding clients get 20% off in exchange for permission to publish a case study and your honest feedback, positive or negative.

Open to our first 3 clients only; the offer ends once all 3 spots are filled.

Care plans

First month free with any build.

  • Essential

    $99/mo

    Hosting, SSL, backups, updates, uptime monitoring, 30 min of edits.

  • Growth

    $249/mo

    Everything in Essential, plus 2 hours of edits, priority response and a monthly report.

  • App Care

    $499/mo

    OS/SDK updates, crash monitoring, 4 hours of dev.

Extra work

$125 per hour.

Payment terms

Sites: 50/50.

Apps: 40/30/30.

Tell us about your project.

One email is all it takes to start: contact@thought2creations.com

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