Pococode: we can build websites, web apps, mobile apps, games, AI automation, design and branding, and marketing.

Pococode (Pty) Ltd is a software studio in Cape Town, South Africa, run by its three co-founders: Edwin Jay and Nico van der Merwe, who build the software, and Jake Rattray, who leads sales. The people you talk to are the people who build it.

Websites, apps, games, AI automation, branding and marketing, built by senior engineers in Cape Town.

await pococode.build(yourIdea)

We can build websites.

The first thing your customers see. Company sites, online shops and landing pages, fast on any phone and easy for you to update.

Concept, with made-up data: Kettlebird is a coffee roaster we invented.

We can build web apps.

The system your business runs on. Dashboards, portals, booking systems and internal tools, built around how your team already works.

Concept, with made-up data.

We can build mobile apps.

Ten seconds, on any phone. iPhone and Android from one codebase: bookings, orders, loyalty, whatever your customers need to do fast.

Concept, with made-up data.

We can build games.

One more round. Web and mobile games, designed, built and balanced in-house.

Concept: Comet Catch is a real game you can play on this page.

We can build AI automation.

The busywork, done before you look. Chatbots, inbox helpers and automated workflows that plug into the tools you already use, with a person pressing the final button.

Concept, with made-up data.

We can build your brand.

A name people remember. We take on the whole brand: logo, colour, type and packaging, built into one system your business can use everywhere.

Concept brand, drawn four ways.

We can build your marketing.

One idea, everywhere. Social media, copywriting and ads, all carrying the same clear thought.

Concept campaigns for three made-up businesses.

How we work

We can build it with you. Every step of it, in the open.

  1. Brief

    The people who build it are the people you talk to.

  2. First build

    You see working software early, and at every step after that.

  3. Review

    If something will not work, we say so and tell you what we would do instead.

  4. Launch

    Then it goes live.

We can build it. Tell us what you want built.

Our work

Not our first rodeo.

Four products we built and launched ourselves, from a parking app to a card game. Tap a card to see it run.

  1. luō: mobile app and website for smart parking. Number-plate cameras, live card payments and hardware at the gate, working as one app. On Google Play and the App Store.
  2. Brain Stretch: daily brain games for mobile, with a launch website built alongside the game. On Google Play.
  3. Aeonborne: sci-fi trading card game for mobile, with real-time battles, a 142-card rule set and art that holds up on a phone. On Google Play.
  4. wrappa: digital gifting web app. A gift you tear open with your thumb, plus file uploads, share links and payments, and no sign-up for the person opening it.

And websites.

Three shop sites we designed and built. Open one and scroll it yourself.

  1. Kettlebird: a concept site for a coffee roaster we invented.
  2. Morrow: a concept site for a gym and group classes we invented.
  3. Hushwell: a concept site for a skin care shop we invented.

Built by the three people you are about to meet.

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    Team

    Two ex-MIT engineers.
    One sales lead.

    No hand-offs. The people you talk to are the people who build it, with no account managers and no outsourcing.

    A team working together at a long wooden table
    1. 01Engineering and AI

      Ex-MIT engineer

      10 years shipping apps

      Edwin Jay

      Co-founder. Principal full stack engineer.

      Web and mobile apps from the first screen to the last server. He also builds AI agents that do real work inside a business, with a person signing off wherever it matters.

      • React
      • Node.js
      • iOS and Android
      • AI agents
      • Cloud
    2. 02Sales

      13 years in sales

      Sold on 3 continents

      Jake Rattray

      Co-founder. Sales and partnerships.

      Sales and client partnerships in the UK, the US and South Africa. He makes sure every project starts with the right brief, before anyone writes a line of code.

      • Sales
      • Partnerships
      • Client success
      • Growth
    3. 03Engineering and AI

      Ex-MIT engineer

      18 years in software

      Nico van der Merwe

      Co-founder. Principal full stack engineer.

      Software end to end, from the systems banks run on to the websites, web apps and mobile apps people use every day. Now he builds AI into them, so the software does real work on its own.

      • Web and mobile apps
      • Websites
      • APIs
      • AI
      • Cloud

    You meet all three on the first call.

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