Real-time
Independent software studio / Technology - Economics
Build small.
Think in systems.
Orias designs, ships and runs focused software end to end. We care about the technology - and the incentives, trade-offs and operating economics that shape it.
Featured work
Sora - Discord Counselor
A management bot and real-time dashboard for Discord communities - moderation, embeds, temporary voice rooms, statistics, custom commands and an economy, localised in eight languages.
Stack
Node.js · Express · React
Data
PostgreSQL · Redis
Operations
Self-hosted · 8 languages
Systems
Technology changes the possible.
Economics changes the likely.
We look at software as a system: technical constraints, user behavior, incentives and operating costs all shape what survives in production.
01
Technology
What can be built
02
Behavior
How people use it
03
Incentives
What gets repeated
04
Outcomes
What the system becomes
Design question
Can this remain useful, understandable and operable as it grows?
Principles
Small enough to stay sharp.
Own the loop
Talk to users, ship the change, run it in production, fix what breaks.
Boring tech
Prefer well-understood technology and clear defaults over configuration theatre.
Speak their language
Interfaces should be understandable - literally. Everything shipped is localised.
Contact
Build useful things.
Keep the system legible.
Find Orias on GitHub as Orias-Nexus. For project-specific questions, open an issue on the relevant repository.