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Mobile apps
Native iOS and Android, or React Native and Flutter where one codebase really serves the product. Offline behaviour and store review planned from week one.
Software studio · Achern, Black Forest
Good software is knitted, not printed.
A Schäfer is a shepherd, and shepherds know that wool only becomes useful one stitch at a time. We build apps and platforms the same way: row by row, each one checked before the next. Knit a pattern of your own while you read.
The loom0 coloured stitches
Click or drag across the stitches. Nothing here is saved or sent anywhere.
Services
What we make
Six kinds of work, each with its own care label.
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Web platforms
Portals, dashboards and SaaS on React, Next.js and Node, kept quick on an average phone and an average connection.
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Product design
Research, clickable prototypes and design systems that still make sense after years of new features.
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Backend & cloud
APIs, data models and infrastructure in EU regions by default, sized for expected load and documented for the unexpected.
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Integrations
ERP, CRM, payment and logistics systems joined cleanly, with the repetitive manual steps between them automated.
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Maintenance
CI/CD, monitoring, updates and a named engineer who answers when a thread comes loose.
Sectors
Who we knit for
Achern sits between Baden-Baden and Offenburg, in the Ortenau: vineyards on one side, the Black Forest on the other, and a lot of family-run firms in between.
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Manufacturing & craft
Order tracking, shop-floor tablets and reports that managers actually read.
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Wine, food & hospitality
Booking, ordering and stock tools for seasonal peaks.
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Logistics
Fleet visibility, routing and driver apps that cope with mountain coverage.
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Trade & local services
Customer portals and price lists that replace the spreadsheet.
Process
Four rows, every time
The pattern is the same on every project, so you always know which row we are on.
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Cast on
Users, limits and risks written down. What is in and out is agreed before any code.
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Swatch
A clickable prototype, tested while changing direction still costs nothing.
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Knit
Two-week sprints, a live demo after each one, automated tests all the way.
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Block & finish
Store release or production launch, analytics connected, then refinement.
About
A small studio, by choice
Schäfer GmbH is a software company registered in Achern, Baden-Württemberg. We work with founders and in-house teams who want the people writing the code to understand why it is being written.
Staying small is deliberate. Every project gets senior attention, decisions take hours rather than weeks, and nobody learns your business at your expense. It also means we say no to work that does not fit, and we say it on the first call.
One team, start to finish
Whoever scopes your project builds it.
Dropped stitches are reported
Delays come up at the weekly demo, not on the invoice.
The code belongs to you
Documented, conventional, handed over in full.
We stay after launch
Monitoring, fixes and the next round of improvements.
Contact
Drop by the studio
Call us, or leave a short brief. You will hear back with first questions and a rough outline within one working day.
Phone
Address
Schäfer GmbH
Oststr. 17
77855 Achern, Germany
Hours
Mon–Fri · 9:00–17:00 CET