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Software for the languages
mainstream tech left behind.

The cost of building great software has collapsed. We build products from the ground up — in the user's language first — around problems we've lived ourselves.

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Why Codeswitch

Three ideas run through everything we build.

Not a house style bolted on after the fact — the operating premise underneath every product in the catalog.

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Language first, not localized last

Every product starts multilingual — the user's language is the ground floor, not a translation layer bolted on after the English ships.

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Built from lived use cases

Each product began as a real problem in a real family or community we're part of — discovered because we lived it, not sized in a spreadsheet.

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Small studio, real systems

A disciplined internal system lets a two-person team ship precise, maintained software. See How We Build below.

What we've built

Products, not slideware.

Live software serving real communities — each one a proof point for the studio.

Your Media, Organized
Featured

Your Media, Organized

A private, multilingual home theater — managed for you. Subtitles in your family's languages, whole-home privacy, a safe kids' zone. No accounts sold, nothing tracked.

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In production · v1.9.9

Chow Down

Menu translation that actually gets Chinese food right — verified in production, reviewed through a custom cross-dialect workflow built for Mandarin, Cantonese, and English.

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New · private & local

Voicebook

Turn the conversations in your home into a private, searchable archive — on your own machine. One local pipeline; a child's bilingual language journal, family search, and a Sunday digest for grandparents come out of it.

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Listed

Hanzi Rain

Reaction-speed Mandarin training for HSK learners who've outgrown flashcards.

Visit hanzi-rain.com →
Listed

TypeSnake

A retro arcade typing trainer — speed and accuracy, gamified.

Details coming soon →
How we build

A small studio system, run like an assembly line for precision.

Every product above runs through the same internal pipeline — one role finds the signal, one role owns the truth, one role ships it.

天行健，君子以自强不息Book of Changes · 易经
理The Conductor· orchestration — routes every handoff, gates every ship
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EXTERNAL
The Scout
click for detail
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INTERNAL
The Archivist
click for detail
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The Builder
click for detail
守The Operator· infrastructure — permissions, cost, security
EXTERNAL

探The Scout

Gathers and structures outside signal — market data, competitor pricing, raw bilingual language pairs from the open web. Surfaces the highest-signal gaps for the Archivist. Never authors final IP itself.

Example ticket: CRAWL-0002 — expand menu corpus
See the full system, tooling, and case studies →
Built on
Claude Code
GitHub
AWS
Vercel
Cloudflare
Neon
Hire the studio

Every product here started as a problem we had to solve ourselves.

If you've got a linguistic or cultural edge case mainstream software keeps getting wrong, that's exactly our lane. We build in your users' language first — and we can build one for you.

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