Company
Twenty-five years building software for ambitious teams. Products and platforms designed to be owned, not subscribed to. Open source where possible, EU-hosted by default.
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Atypisch was founded in 2000 in Utrecht. We design and develop software that you can own or subscribe to. Our work sits at the intersection of product strategy, platform engineering, and open-source contribution to EU programmes.
For over twenty-five years we have built websites, content platforms, SaaS products and APIs for ambitious teams. The shape of the work has changed but the principle has not: ship something the client can operate themselves, for years.
The SaaS market trained organizations to lease software, move data between rentals, and accept that the next pricing change is two emails away. We do not agree. Every product we ship can be self-hosted. You keep the runtime. You keep the data.
Open source is a default, not a marketing line. EU-hosted is a default, not a feature. Long-term maintenance is a default, not a separate service.
Approach
Every product we ship can be self-hosted on your infrastructure. We support you running it, or we run it for you in an EU region you pick.
We choose technology that will still be maintainable in 2030. PHP, MySQL, Vue. Vanilla JS where it fits. Nothing exotic, nothing that needs a new lead engineer every two years.
We don't disappear after launch. Most of our client relationships run multi-year. We are happy to be on retainer or to hand over completely — your choice, not ours.
Where the work allows, we ship code as open source. We contribute upstream to the libraries we depend on. EU procurement appreciates it; the rest of the world should too.
Utrecht, NL. The studio is small on purpose. We are a tight group of senior engineers, designers and product strategists who work directly with clients and no account layer in between.
When we need to scale a team for a specific project, we partner with a small set of trusted European studios who match our standards.
Studio history
Team
We are small on purpose, and work together with a range of freelancers and agencies, specific for each task. You talk to the people who do the work, not to an account layer in between.
Founder · Platform engineer
Twenty-five years building software, from punk-scene fanzine sites to EU-procurement platforms. Founder, writer, developer and musician.
Backend Architect · API, Advanced Digital Structures
Builds the spine of every product. Linux distributions, Openstack and database alternatives, Auth solutions and more.
Senior brand designer
Branding and UX designer with a broad experience, working with (inter) nationally famous brands and companies. Podcats creator and suno enthusiast.
Senior UX designer
Designs UI systems that survive a team change. Cares deeply about typography, hairlines and gaming. Develops sophisticated games and applications using AI, while learning code.
Activation specialist, video expert and creative coder
Dylan turns complex messages and ideas into clear online animations and videos, develops websites and applicaitons, understands code and is an allround AI enthusiast.
Freelance Senior Developer
Senior app developer specialist, allround creative coder and raspberry pi enthusiast.
E-commerce specialist & developer
E commerce, fascinated by cabinets and closets, knowing his way around Wordpress and other CMS-es, knows AI and Mario Kart Shortcuts.
Senior Brand Designer and Strategist
After running a successful design agency for more then a decade, Robbert is back in the game.
They priced the work like a small studio, then kept the platform running long after delivery. Most vendors are gone once the final report is in.
Programme officer, EU consortium partnerWe take on a small number of projects per year. If you are planning something for the long term, send us a note.
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