Everything is in your name
Repository, store accounts, servers, domain. You can walk away with the whole thing tomorrow and owe us nothing but notice.
About
We built the studio we wished we could hire
Sitenhost started in 2018 after its founders spent years inheriting apps from agencies that had shipped, invoiced and vanished. The whole model is a reaction to that.
The pattern was always the same. An agency would win the build, ship something that demoed well, invoice the final milestone and move on. Eighteen months later the app would break on a new iOS release, nobody could find the signing certificate, and the developer accounts were registered to an email address at a company that no longer existed.
We kept being the people called in to sort that out. Eventually it seemed more useful to be the people who prevented it.
What we changed
Everything is registered to you from day one — the repository, the Apple Developer account, the Play Console, the servers, the domain. Not to us, not to a project email, to you. We are replaceable by design, and we think that is the only honest way to earn the next piece of work.
We also stayed. Roughly two thirds of our revenue comes from apps we shipped years ago and still release updates for every fortnight. An app is a living thing; treating the launch as the finish line is what produces the wreckage we started out cleaning up.
What we will not do
We do not build an app because you asked for one. If a good responsive website would serve your customers better — and quite often it would — we will say so, and then quote you for the website instead.
We do not bill for work you have not approved in writing, and we do not start a build before you have held a prototype. Too many app projects are six figures of guessing.
The useful answer is sometimes that you do not need an app at all. We are happy to be the people who say so.
How we operate
Four rules we do not bend
Prototype before production
Nobody signs off a six-figure build from a slide. You hold a working prototype on your own phone first.
Say the difficult thing
Including when the honest answer is that you do not need the project. Especially then.
Ship, then keep shipping
Launch is the middle of the job. We are still releasing updates to apps we built six years ago.
Leadership
The people who will actually build it
Small enough that you will know everyone working on your project by name inside a fortnight.
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Dana Whitfield
Managing Director
Runs the studio and the care plans. Has restored more websites from bad backups than she would like to count.
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Tomás Herrera
Head of Mobile
Leads the app team. Specialises in offline-first field apps and will happily argue about sync conflict resolution.
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Priya Raghunathan
Head of Product Design
Runs scoping workshops and prototypes. The reason our clients cut features before paying to build them.
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Marcus Oyelaran
Head of Platform
Backends, APIs and the cloud they run on. Keeps a shelf of old Android phones purely to ruin optimistic performance claims.
What we do
Where we spend most of our time
Mobile App Development
iOS and Android apps built to ship — designed, developed, submitted to both stores and supported after launch.
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Websites & E-commerce
Laravel and WordPress builds — marketing sites, WooCommerce stores and content platforms, hosted and looked after once they launch.
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ERP, CRM & Business Systems
ERP, CRM, POS, HR, accounting and LMS platforms — built around how your business actually runs, and wired into the tools you already use.
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SaaS Product Development
Multi-tenant platforms with subscriptions, trials and self-serve onboarding — the product, the billing and the admin behind it.
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Come and ask us something difficult
The first conversation is with a developer and costs nothing. If we are not the right fit we will say so and point you somewhere better.
Studio hours 8am–6pm · on-call for live apps