Services
Octane Labs builds and modernizes custom software for growing companies — Rails application development, legacy rescue and upgrades, and ongoing technical consulting. You work directly with the people building your software, not a handoff-and-disappear vendor, and clients who want to keep us involved after launch keep us on a retainer. Rails is our default, but we use the right tool for the job and maintain whatever you already run.
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Custom Rails Platforms
Multi-tenant SaaS and web products, built by the person who'll still be running them next year.
Custom Rails Platforms is our flagship build service: production multi-tenant SaaS, internal tools, and web products engineered on Rails 8 — subscriptions, multiple customer accounts, payments, and integrations. It's for founders and operators who need software built to run for years, not a prototype that falls over at the first paying customer. The same engineer who ships your platform can stay on to run it — because that's exactly how we build and operate our own.
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Launch Sprint (0 → 1)
From idea to a deployed product, fast — because we've taken our own 0-to-1 more than once.
Launch Sprint takes a validated idea to a real, production-deployed Rails product on a fixed-scope schedule — core features, auth and payments where you need them, and an actual deploy in front of real users, not a staging demo. It's for founders who need to start learning from the market now, without a rented dev shop and a six-month runway. It's fast because we've taken our own products 0-to-1 more than once, on the same clock we'd use for yours.
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Custom Shopify Development
Custom Shopify development by the engineers who build our own products — a storefront shaped around what you actually sell, run by the people who sell it.
Custom Shopify Development is engineered e-commerce on Shopify: product data modeled to fit what you actually sell, the commerce flows your business runs on — retail, wholesale/B2B, subscriptions, made-to-order — and the integrations behind them, built by the same engineers who ship our own products. It's for merchants who've outgrown a store that half-fits and the fight that comes with it, and who want commerce built to be run by the people selling, not by a developer every time a detail changes. Rails is our default for software that has to run for years; when the right tool for the job is Shopify, we build there too — same team, same engineering standard, and a real CI quality gate on the storefront.
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Legacy Rescue & Rails Upgrades
Un-stick a stalled Rails app — upgrade it, pay down the debt, and make it safe to ship again.
Legacy Rescue & Rails Upgrades gets a stalled Rails app moving again: version upgrades, dependency and security remediation, test-coverage backfill, and performance work — done in small, reviewable steps, never a big-bang rewrite. It's for teams stuck on an old Rails version, buried in tech debt, or afraid to deploy an app that still makes money. It's led by an engineer with 15+ years of software experience and 13+ years of Rails specifically — the person who's spent a career keeping production Rails safe to ship.
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OctaneCare
Operate & Run — we keep your app running on the same on-call standard we hold our own products to. No hand-off, no disappearing act.
OctaneCare is our Operate & Run retainer for production Rails apps: maintenance, monitoring, security and dependency updates, incremental feature work, and error triage, from the engineer who actually understands your code. It's for anyone with a live app — built by us or inherited — who needs it kept healthy and moving forward by a person, not a rotating support queue. We operate our own portfolio of production SaaS on this exact standard, including the 2 a.m. pager. Yours gets the same.
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The Diagnostic
A fixed-fee technical review that tells you what to build, fix, or upgrade — and what it'll take — before you commit.
The Diagnostic is a fixed-fee, time-boxed technical review that ends in a written deliverable: findings, risks, a recommended path, and a scoped estimate. For a new idea, it's feasibility and scoping. For an existing app, it's an audit — architecture, security, upgrade path, and tech debt. It's for buyers who aren't ready to commit to a full build but want an expert read from a senior engineer, for a known price. Start here: it de-risks the decision for both sides before anyone signs up for something big.
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