Eleven people. One Sarajevo flat.

I'd love to tell you BetaStudio started with a plan. It didn't. In 2017 I was freelancing out of a flat in Sarajevo and clients kept asking if I had a team. I said yes a few times before it was technically true, then went and built one.

Nine years on we're ten-ish people. We could be twenty. I keep choosing not to grow because every studio I've watched scale past about fifteen turns into a thing I wouldn't want to work at — half the people become project managers and the engineering goes to whoever just graduated.

What we actually do is unremarkable when you describe it. Mobile apps, web apps, the backends behind them. We've done this for Lufthansa, World Mobile, a handful of banks, and a few startups that didn't make it. These days we also ship our own products — a fintech line and a workspace OS — partly because we like building, partly to keep the rent paid in slow months.

The bit that matters: the person who picks up your Slack DM is the one writing your code. We use Claude all day for the boring parts, but no one here is a junior pretending. If something goes wrong at midnight, one of us deals with it.

If any of that sounds like the kind of team you'd want around, write back.