Custom Software for TeamsThat Outgrew Workarounds.
Software Survivor helps established businesses and funded product teams build business-critical web apps, AI workflow automation, integrations, and cloud platforms. Based in Fresno and serving teams across California and the US.
Software for Business-Critical Workflows
The best engagements start with a real business constraint: a workflow that will not scale, a product that needs technical depth, or a legacy system that has become too expensive to carry.
Custom Business Software and SaaS
Plan and build revenue, operations, and customer-facing products with maintainable architecture, clean APIs, and practical delivery milestones.
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Connect the tools your team already uses, automate expensive manual workflows, and add AI where it can create measurable leverage.
Architecture, Rescue, and Technical Leadership
Stabilize fragile systems, modernize legacy code, and get senior engineering judgment before a rebuild, scale-up, or key technical hire.
Better-fit clients
Built for buyers with a serious software problem.
This is a strong fit when the software is tied to revenue, operations, compliance, customer experience, or a product roadmap. It is less useful for one-off brochure sites or projects where the only goal is the lowest possible hourly rate.
Talk Through the ConstraintsBusiness-critical systems
Internal platforms, portals, dashboards, and product workflows where reliability and maintainability matter more than a quick prototype.
Operational complexity
Teams with spreadsheets, disconnected apps, manual review steps, or customer handoffs that are now too costly to run by hand.
Senior technical direction
Founders and operators who need architectural clarity, delivery leadership, or an experienced partner before growing an engineering team.
Latest Insights
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Transforming CloudWatch Nginx Logs to CloudFront Log format
A deep dive into transforming CloudWatch Nginx logs using a Lambda data transform that reduces multi-line batches into a single prioritized event for downstream HTTP ingestion.
Technical Leadership
Insights from a Principal Engineer on building scalable systems, leading engineering teams, and delivering enterprise solutions.
Featured AI Product Build: FeelsReel
A media-heavy AI product that combines custom application development, prompt-driven content workflows, and third-party video generation APIs.
FeelsReel
FeelsReel generates personalized children's stories and turns them into videos using OpenAI and RunwayAI. It is a useful example of where Software Survivor fits: turning a product idea with complex AI and media dependencies into a working software platform.
Our Portfolio
Explore our portfolio to see how we solve real client challenges with cutting-edge technology.
Candid Moments
Photo-sharing app with AWS Lambda, Rekognition, and S3 for safe event photography.
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Sigma Solutions
Groundwater management web app for California water agencies with interactive mapping and SGMA compliance tools.
See Demo →Bring a Serious Software Problem.
If your team needs a dependable partner for a revenue, operations, or product system, start with the constraints. We will help clarify the architecture, delivery path, and first useful release.
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