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Dusk VM
Virtual machines for your Mac or Windows PC. Run Windows, Linux and macOS in their own windows, pick a system from the built-in catalogue, and suspend or snapshot whenever you like.
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Dusk Engineering Services
We build and look after the software businesses run on. Usually web apps, APIs and the cloud they sit on. Often for teams who've inherited something complicated and need it to stop being a problem.
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What we do
Most work falls into one of these. Plenty of it falls into two.
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Web applications
Internal tools, customer portals, dashboards. The screens your team opens every morning, and the ones your customers judge you by.
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APIs and services
The plumbing everything else runs through. Written to still make sense in two years, when someone else is the one fixing it.
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Cloud and hosting
Infrastructure that copes when you're busy and costs little when you're not. Set up so you can see what it's doing and what you're paying for.
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Connecting systems
Your CRM, your finance system, that supplier with the ancient API. We get them agreeing with each other, and keep them agreeing.
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Releases and monitoring
Deploy on a Friday afternoon without holding your breath. Find out something's broken before a customer tells you.
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Inherited systems
Code nobody left notes for, a server nobody dares restart. We work out what it does, make it safe to change, and leave it documented.
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A second opinion
Sometimes you don't need a build. You need someone senior to look at what you've got and say plainly what they'd do. You get it in writing: what's risky, what's fine, and what we'd do first.
Not sure which of these you need? That's what the first call is for.
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Things we build and run ourselves
The same engineering we sell, pointed at our own products. Shipping and supporting them means we deal with the same releases, outages and upgrades our clients do.
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Dusk Office
Documents, spreadsheets, slides, forms, calendar and notes in the browser, with real-time editing and sharing.
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Faultline
A live 3D globe of world events: conflicts, earthquakes, storms, outbreaks and unrest, updated every few minutes from world news, USGS and GDACS.
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Dusk IDE
A fast, focused code editor we built from scratch, not a VS Code fork. Language servers, real git tooling, a debugger and AI coding agents built in.
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Dusk Linux
A Debian 13 based OS for owning your own cloud. The server edition runs our sign-in, office, chat, git, file vault and security apps behind one login, on hardware you control.
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Dusken OS
An operating system written from scratch: its own kernel, drivers, desktop, network stack and web browser, with no Linux underneath. Follow every release as it lands.
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What you can expect
Small team, direct contact. No account managers, no ticket queues.
You own all of it
Code lands in your repository from day one. Your cloud account, your domains, your data. If we go separate ways, nothing of yours leaves with us.
We choose dull tools
Proven over exciting. You should be able to hire for this stack, and still be running it in five years.
We write things down
Why we chose what we chose, how to run it, and what to do when it breaks at 3am. Nobody should have to guess.
Same people start to finish
Whoever you speak to first is who writes your code. No handover to a delivery team you've never met.
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How a project runs
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A conversation
An hour on a call. What you've got, what hurts, and what you actually need. No slide deck.
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Something in writing
Within a week: what we'd build, how, and what it costs. A fixed price wherever the work allows one.
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We build it
Two-week cycles, working software throughout, and a short update every Friday. Nothing saved up for a big reveal.
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You take it over
Running on your infrastructure, documented to match, with a proper walkthrough for whoever picks it up.
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We stay, or we don't
Keep us on for support, or take it in-house. Both are fine. That's rather the point of step four.
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Get in touch
Tell us what you're trying to do and what's getting in the way. We reply within one working day.