BrandFractional CTO services
FirstCTO
Helping founders and teams establish good technical foundations, make confident technical decisions and build engineering teams that scale. Decades of experience, no jargon, no theatre.
Visit firstcto.co.ukWelcomeApps for living.
Apps for living.
Services for building.
A house of brands who thoughtfully builds software and helps others to do the same.
From organising family routines to coaching grassroots sport, from platform games to providing fractional CTO services, we make things we'd want to use.
About the studio
We're makers, helping others build great software, and crafting our own.
Brookhaus is a small, intentional company. We make software for the things that matter most in everyday life, from organising family routines, to managing your sports coaching, to understanding your finances, or simply kicking back with a fun video game.
Every product we make is crafted with the same philosophy: do less, but do it well.
We also help others build. Through our consulting and fractional CTO brand, FirstCTO, we bring decades of experience to early stage founders and teams who need confident, pragmatic technical guidance. No jargon, no theatre, just clear thinking and honest advice.
Everything we make is thoughtfully built. That's not just a tagline, it's how we work.
Principle 01
Do less, but do it well
We'd rather ship one considered thing than ten half-finished ones.
Principle 02
Build what we'd use
Every app we create we're using ourselves.
Principle 03
Plain words, no theatre
Honest, jargon-free conversations with our team and clients.
Principle 04
Independent and intentional
Our pace, our standards, our long-term commitments.
Our brands
Multiple studios one roof.
BrandIndependent games studio
Dad Makes Games
Building handcrafted games with heart and a bit of mischief. Small studio, big ideas, built with care.
Visit dadmakesgames.co.ukOur apps
Software for everyday life.
Family - Organised
Doorstep
Family life, organised and shared.
Doorstep is family life, organised and shared. Calendars, tasks, chores and rewards in one calm space.
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Coaching - Communities
Grassroots+
Everything a coach needs and nothing they don’t.
An app for coaches and communities of Grassroots sports. Communication, events, drills, session plans, performance tracking. Everything a coach needs and nothing they don't.
Personal finance - Open source
Cinchflow
Clear-eyed personal finance tracking.
Clear-eyed personal finance tracking. Free and Open-source, private by design.
Our games
Made to be played.
Word game - Survival
Dead Letters
Solve fast. Outrun the dead.
A crossword with something chasing you. Race the zombie in Escape Mode — every solved word stuns it, every hint brings it closer — or take your time in Relaxed Mode. 300 puzzles across 12 categories.
Arcade
Cubli
Slide smart. Match big. Make room.
Slide rows and columns to match four or more blocks and spark satisfying cascades. Rearrange incoming blocks, unleash power-ups and make room for the next drop. Chase your best score or try a fresh daily challenge.
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2.5d - Roguelike
So I Work With Zombies
Twenty floors. One survivor. Worst day at the office.
A bathroom break saved your life. Now fight through 20 floors of zombified colleagues, scavenge ridiculous weapons, stack powerful upgrades and somehow escape the office alive in this darkly comic action roguelike.
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2d - Precision platformer
Million to one
The odds are impossible. Run anyway.
A fast, unforgiving precision platformer inspired by H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. Run, leap and scramble through a world under Martian attack, where towering tripods, burning cities and impossible odds stand between you and survival.
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