Build. Launch. Upgrade.

BLU PLATFORMS is a product studio that builds, launches and upgrades production-grade apps. We ship our own consumer apps to real users, and we bring that same product discipline to software we build for startups and businesses.

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One partner for the entire product lifecycle.

Three stages, one team. Pick the one that matches where your product is today.

Build

Turn your idea into a real product, built to production standards from day one.

  • MVP Development

    Validate your idea with a launch-ready MVP in weeks, not months.

  • Mobile App Development

    iOS and Android from a single codebase, built for performance.

  • Custom Business Software

    Replace spreadsheets and manual workflows with software that fits how you work.

Launch

Get to market with confidence. Your first release ships stable, tracked and discoverable.

  • App Launch

    App Store and Google Play submission, done right the first time.

  • Cloud Deployment & DevOps

    Deployment, environments and monitoring, set up to survive real traffic.

  • Analytics & Growth Setup

    Know what users do from day one, not six months in.

Upgrade

Keep growing after go-live, with the people who built it.

  • Modernisation

    Rebuild or refactor ageing apps without losing your users.

  • AI Integration

    Add practical AI features to your product or your internal tools.

  • Maintenance & Support

    Monitoring, updates and improvements on a retainer.

From idea to app store in five steps.

Discover and Design get the shape right. Build, Launch and Upgrade are the same three stages the company is named after.

  1. Discover

    Workshops to define goals, users and scope.

  2. Design

    Wireframes, prototypes and UI you can click through.

  3. Build

    Agile sprints with demos every two weeks.

  4. Launch

    Testing, store submission and deployment.

  5. Upgrade

    Analytics-driven improvements and ongoing support.

Modern, proven technology.

We choose technology for longevity, performance and the team’s ability to maintain it, not for trends.

Mobile: React Native, Expo. Web: Next.js, React, TypeScript. Backend: .NET, NestJS. Cloud & Data: Firebase, AWS. Payments: Stripe. AI: LLM APIs.

We don’t just build apps. We run them.

We design, launch and operate our own consumer apps. Real users, real reviews, real scaling problems. Every client project gets those lessons.

LinqUp(opens in a new tab)

Planning without the group chat chaos

Getting a group together usually dies in the group chat. LinqUp collects everyone's availability, finds the overlap and turns it into a plan the group confirms in one tap.

Try LinqUp(opens in a new tab)
The LinqUp app showing a group plan called Pasta night: three of three members have shared their availability, a week of overlapping free time is charted underneath, and the plan is ready to confirm.The LinqUp home screen: a Create new plan button and three shortcuts for tomorrow and the next two weekends, above a confirmed plan called Pasta night on Saturday 19 September at 6pm with three members, and two more plans still being agreed below it.The LinqUp availability screen: a week in September charted across four members, with everyone's free hours drawn as coloured blocks and the group's earliest full overlap, Friday 18 September from 1pm to 9pm, called out underneath.

What we’re building next

Two more are in development: one for a client, one of our own. Both get what LinqUp taught us about shipping an app and then living with it.

  • Transport

    A client build, for a company out to change how the transport industry works, making it easy to move freight for both customers and carriers.

  • AI

    One of ours, for software teams: the context an AI coding agent needs to work usefully on a real codebase.

Let’s worktogether

Tell us what you have in mind, or where the product you’ve already built needs to go next. We’ll come back with honest next steps, no obligation.

contact@bluplatforms.com