Independent app studio

When the right app isn’t there, we build it.

A visa deadline you forgot. A family call that won’t connect. Small frustrations add up when you live with them every day. That’s where our apps begin.

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Family documents and upcoming deadlines in EasyStay Thailand — Real screens from MangoConnect and EasyStay

MangoConnect conversation list — Real screens from MangoConnect and EasyStay

MangoConnectEasyStay ThailandMango Private

Every app starts somewhere.

Usually with a familiar problem, a conversation, and someone asking whether there’s a better way.

MangoConnect · Messenger

A way to stay closer

It started with a family call that just wouldn’t work. Mango grew into a messenger with private chats, calls, groups, channels, stories and message translation. For the conversations that keep going, wherever you live.

Personal chats use end-to-end encryption. Public channels are open to their readers. The Mango website explains what is protected and how the different spaces work.

Meet MangoConnect

Translation on

Tap the orange button to compare the original and translated messages.

EasyStay · iOS / Android

EasyStay Thailand · Life in Thailand

One family A lot of deadlines

Living in Thailand means keeping track of visas, passports and reports. Add a family and everyone has a different timeline, with paperwork to prepare before each renewal. We built EasyStay because we were tired of remembering it all.

Keep documents and deadlines together, for yourself and your family. See what’s coming up while there’s still time to do something about it.

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Other projects

A few more ideas we couldn’t quite leave alone.

For shopkeepers

ManiTalk

Incoming payments, announced aloud. A customer pays by QR code; the shopkeeper hears it without reaching for their phone.

For weekend dives

WeekendDiver

A dive computer for Apple Watch Ultra. For people who dive on weekends, without a subscription that runs all year.

easystart

Websites for Phuket businesses

Prepared website proposals for local businesses, plus website creation, redesign, promotion and ongoing support.

For your collection

MyWineCave

Your wine cellar in your pocket: bottles, notes and ratings. Remember what you enjoyed and what’s waiting for the right evening.

OffshoreLabs Studio

A person behind the apps. Plenty of curiosity behind the person.

I’m Alex, a self-taught developer. I’ve loved gadgets and new technology since the days when a smartphone still needed explaining to your friends.

I build with AI agents, talk ideas through with my family, and try the apps myself. I decide what feels right and what is ready to ship. Sometimes a casual “what if” turns into a year spent building a messenger.

Alex, founder of OffshoreLabs Studio

What does building with AI really look like?

I write about the useful discoveries, stubborn agents and things I had to build twice. It starts with copying my first bit of code and follows the work that turned into these apps.

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Something on your mind?

A rough edge in one of our apps, an idea worth exploring, or a project we might work on together? Write to us. Some of our apps started with a conversation just like that.

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