MGKCodes, an independent software studio

Idea tolaunch.

iPhone and Android apps, web apps, and the backends and AI that run them. Each one is the studio's own.

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01/Studio

MGKCodes is an independent software studio. Every product goes from first sketch to launch in-house: design, engineering, release and marketing, by the same team.

02/Work

All projects

Built here, from the first sketch.

01 / 03Live

frunt

  • Web app
  • Staff app
  • Hospitality
frunthospitality.comOpen
02 / 03Run on Google Play, Lift on the App Store and Google Play

MGKFitness

  • iOS
  • Android
  • Fitness
mgkfitness.mgkcodes.comOpen
03 / 03In development

Next

A new product is in early design. It lands here when it ships.

Untitled / in early design

03/Capabilities

One studio. Every layer.

01/Mobile

iOS and Android apps

Flutter, Dart

02/Web

Web apps and sites

Next.js, React, TypeScript

03/Backend

Data, accounts, payments

Supabase, Postgres, Stripe

04/AI

Assistants and coaches

Claude and OpenAI APIs

04/Writing

All articles

Build notes.

  1. 13 Oct 2026/7 min

    How Run keeps recording with the screen off, on Android and iPhone

    Android needs a foreground service of type location. iPhone needs the location background mode. Then the app has to notice when fixes stop arriving.

  2. 6 Oct 2026/5 min

    Let each product tell your studio site where it stands

    A studio site goes stale the moment a product ships. Ours reads each product's state, screens and sketch from the product's own site, so it can't.

05/Follow

Follow the build.

Lately

  1. A harbour at blue hour. New on 7 Oct: moving to Haiku 5.5? Check these first, circled, with the Claude icon and 400 in large type.
    18 Oct 2026

    Moving to Haiku 5.5? Check these first

    Moving to Claude Haiku 5.5? A thinking budget, top_k, or an assistant prefill each return a 400.

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  2. A laptop at night shows Claude Code's docs: switch to plan mode, Claude reads files and proposes a plan but makes no edits until you approve. Make it plan before it writes code, with plan circled, and the Claude icon.
    17 Oct 2026

    Make it plan before it writes code

    Before a change that touches several files, press Shift+Tab in Claude Code until it says plan mode on.

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  3. A monitor at night shows Apple’s Small Business Program page, its reduced commission rate of 15% circled. Under it, 30% is crossed out by hand and 15% written beside it. Apple takes 30%. Apply, and it’s 15%.
    16 Oct 2026

    Apple takes 30%. Apply, and it's 15%.

    Apple’s standard commission is 30%. Under $1M a year, the Small Business Program makes it 15%.

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06/Contact

Start a conversation.

Open to partnerships and collaborations. Not chasing client volume.

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