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Bayou Labs· product + web studio
Booking Q3 · 2026
Houston, TX · in-house apps & client websites

Weship appson the bayou.

Bayou Labs is a Houston product studio with two practices. We build and operate our own apps — and we design + ship websites for a small set of clients each year. Same team, same craft.

A
In-house apps
Products we're designing & building ourselves.
B
Web design services
Sites & web apps for founders & funded teams.
04
Apps in development
Q3 26
Web slots open
1
Studio · Houston, TX
New
Just getting started
Project Cypress
In design · pre-launch
iOS · web
12-day streak.
3 of 4 goals on track.
Sleep
Move
Mind
yourbrand.com
Client site · concept
Your BrandWork · About · Notes · Contact
A site that feels
made for you.
Designed & built by Bayou Labs
Practice A
Apps we're building.
Four products in development. Pre-launch.
Practice B
Sites we'll ship.
For founders, funds & funded teams.
SwiftUI✦
React✦
Next.js✦
Astro✦
Swift 6✦
Tailwind✦
Framer Motion✦
CoreML✦
Vapor✦
Postgres✦
Sanity✦
Webflow✦
Figma✦
Cloudflare✦
CloudKit✦
TestFlight✦
GSAP✦
WidgetKit✦
TypeScript✦
Three.js✦
SwiftUI✦
React✦
Next.js✦
Astro✦
Swift 6✦
Tailwind✦
Framer Motion✦
CoreML✦
Vapor✦
Postgres✦
Sanity✦
Webflow✦
Figma✦
Cloudflare✦
CloudKit✦
TestFlight✦
GSAP✦
WidgetKit✦
TypeScript✦
Three.js✦
What we do / Two practicesOne studio, two outputs

We build apps for ourselves
and design websites for you.

A
Practice A
In-house apps
Five products we own and operate. We treat them as the studio’s R&D lab.
01 / In-house●
iPhone
iPad
Watch
Vision
Native iOS apps
Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit. iPhone, iPad, watchOS, visionOS.
Swift 6SwiftUIvisionOS
02 / In-house●
On-device AI
Apple Intelligence, CoreML and private models that run where the user is.
CoreMLFoundationVision
03 / In-house●
Operating product
We don’t hand-off — we run our apps day-to-day with real growth & support.
ASOAnalyticsRetention
B
Practice B
Web design services
Websites & web apps for a small set of clients each year. Hourly is rare; project work is the default.
01 / Web●
Marketing sites
Custom-designed, hand-coded marketing sites for funded startups & founders.
Next.jsAstroSanity
02 / Web●
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Brand & identity
Wordmark, type system, color, motion language. The whole visual stack.
IdentityTypeMotion
03 / Web●
API
Web apps & portals
Dashboards, member areas, internal tools. React + a backend that holds up.
ReactTypeScriptPostgres
Practice A · In-house appsPre-launch · 04 in development

What we're building for ourselves.

Bayou Labs is new. Nothing we own is on the App Store yet — these are the products we're actively designing and building. Treat this as a roadmap, not a portfolio.

01 · Health · WellnessLate 2026
iOS · web
Project Cypress

Daily check-ins for chronic-condition patients. A calmer alternative to the dashboards we keep being handed.

In designIn-house
02 · Sleep · AudioEarly 2027
iOS · watchOS
Project Lull

Bedtime audio, ambient soundscapes, and a sleep tracker that doesn't shout in the morning.

PrototypingIn-house
03 · Maps · LocalTBD
iOS · MapKit
Project Buffalo

Trail and bird-spotting maps for Houston greenways. Offline tiles, hand-drawn iconography.

ConceptIn-house
04 · Personal financeTBD
iOS · iPad
Project Magnolia

Envelope budgeting for households who think in goals, not categories.

ConceptIn-house
Practice B · Web design servicesOpen for project work · Q3 2026

What we'll build for you.

Three project shapes, scoped honestly. We take on a small number of web engagements each quarter so the work stays unhurried.

01 · Web●
Marketing sites
Custom, hand-coded marketing sites — for funded startups, founders & studios.
  • Discovery → design → ship
  • Editable CMS, no lock-in
  • Motion & micro-interactions
From $24K · 6–8 wks
02 · Web●
Brand & identity
Wordmark, type system, color, motion language — the visual stack a young company needs.
  • Identity & wordmark
  • Type & color systems
  • Brand guidelines doc
From $18K · 4–6 wks
03 · Web●
Web apps & portals
Dashboards, member areas, and small internal tools. React + a backend that holds up.
  • Design + engineering
  • Auth, billing, data
  • Hand-off or retainer
From $40K · 8–14 wks
Stack / How we shipNative where it matters · pragmatic on the web

Native apps.
Hand-coded sites.

A
Practice A
Apps stack
Languages
Swift 6Objective-C
Frameworks
SwiftUIUIKitSwiftDataCombine
Apple SDKs
HealthKitCoreMLWidgetKitStoreKit 2MapKit
AI / ML
Apple IntelligenceFoundation ModelsCoreML
B
Practice B
Web stack
Languages
TypeScriptJavaScriptSwift
Frameworks
Next.jsAstroReactRemix
Design & motion
TailwindFramer MotionGSAPThree.js
Backend & CMS
VaporPostgresSanityCloudflareWebflow
studio.config.ts● 2 practices · 1 team
export const studio = {
    name: "Bayou Labs",
    practices: {
        apps: { mode: "in-house", products: 5, stack: "swift" },
        web:  { mode: "client-services", slots: 6, stack: "ts + react" },
    },
    location: "Houston, TX",
    // quiet, considered, native — on iOS or on the web.
} as const;
Process / How we workOne project at a time

A patient cadence,
sketch to shipped.

01
Discovery
A short, paid scoping. We map the user, the constraints, and the smallest version worth shipping — app or site.
1–2 wks
02
Design in code
We design directly in the medium. SwiftUI for apps, React/Astro for sites. No throwaway mockups, clickable from week one.
3–6 wks
03
Build & ship
Native engineering for apps, hand-coded for the web. Weekly previews. We sweat the haptics and the hover states.
6–14 wks
04
Stewardship
For our apps: ongoing operation. For client sites: a 90-day post-launch window of edits, plus optional retainer.
Ongoing
Take the next step / Q3 2026 — accepting web project inquiries

Need a website? Let's build it on the bayou.

Practice B · for clients
Hire us for the web.

Marketing sites, e-commerce, web apps & internal tools. Project work from $24K, 6–14 weeks.

Practice A · in-house
Follow our build.

Four apps in development. We post progress, prototypes, and process notes as they ship — no launch dates yet.

NDAs
Mutual on day one
Reply
Within 1 working day
Web engagements
From $24K · 6–14 wks