Big ideas,
small budgets,
real apps.

App & MVP development in Cardiff for early-stage founders.

Shamalama builds affordable native apps and MVPs for early-stage founders in Cardiff and beyond, especially the ones who don't quite know where to start yet.

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Our most recent builds.

HIIT Fitness app home screen on iPhone
● LIVEiOS · ANDROID · watchOS · GARMINNATIVE APP
// fitness app · multi-platform
HIIT Fitness

AI coaching, meal planning, body scanning, nutrition tracking and a social feed — all in one app, across iPhone, Apple Watch, Android and Garmin.

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west-wales-roofing.com
● LIVEWEBSITESELF-SERVE CMS
// website · trades
West Wales Roofing

A portfolio site a roofer updates himself from the scaffold. Every job he finishes goes up with the photographs, and it loads fast on the two-bar signal his customers actually have.

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sysqo.com
WEBSITEENTERPRISE AIDEPLOYED
// website · enterprise
Sysqo

A production website for a company that designs, builds and deploys enterprise AI, from generative media to high-stakes decision systems. Big ideas, made legible.

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Crossways residents app home screen
DEPLOYEDNATIVE APPPRIVATE / RESIDENTS
// native app · community
Crossways

A private residents' app for the Crossways estate. One simple place to coordinate shared spaces, stay on top of bin days, and keep neighbours in the loop.

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Deor app home screen with Buddy the fox, a nest and a Get our mission button
● LIVECYMRAEG + ENGLISHFOR CHILDREN
// children's app · bilingual
Deor

Little missions, big adventures. A bilingual Welsh and English app that sends children off on small real-world adventures, with a grown-up alongside them the whole way.

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Can Eat, Will Eat iOS app home screen, gentle food choices for sensory needs

Where it started ♥

Our very first build wasn't for a client. It was for Vanessa's daughter, who has sensory needs around food. A small, gentle app called Can Eat, Will Eat to make everyday eating decisions easier, and the test that proved a heartfelt idea can ship fast, and beautifully. It's live on the App Store and Google Play today.

Read the story App Store ↗ Google Play ↗

Napkin sketch to App Store.

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Scope, free

A real conversation about the idea and the smallest version worth building. No invoice for a quote.

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Prototype fast

Something you can hold and test in days, so your idea moves before the money does.

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Ship & grow

Front-end or native, written and owned in-house, out to the store or the open web.

No project too small. No idea too early. No budget too tight to start.

Fixed, founder-friendly pricing.

Vanessa Latchem-Smith, founder of Shamalama app studio in Cardiff, at her workstation
"The work is the passion, the challenge, the drive. Real solutions for entrepreneurs, without blowing the budget on a prototype."

Vanessa Latchem-Smith, Founder & Lead Engineer. A background spanning software engineering and marketing, sharpened against an ever-changing market to elevate the thinkers in a tech-driven world.

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"Help!! I need an app and no idea where to start."

That's our favourite sentence. Pre-funding, limited budget, a half-formed idea? We turn it into a prototype you can actually show people.

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Let's build something real.

Tell us what you're thinking, and we'll show you the fastest, most affordable way to make it happen.

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