About
A studio the size of the problem
Appalanche is a founder-led software studio in New South Wales. Small on purpose: no account managers, no hand-offs, no lost context. You brief one senior builder, and that same builder designs, codes and ships your product.
The founder
Moe Daghostani
Founder, Wicked Funnels Pty. Ltd. · New South Wales, Australia
I'm Moe, founder of Wicked Funnels Pty. Ltd., the NSW studio behind Appalanche. I build and run Limbo, a consumer travel app on iOS and Android with 5,000+ downloads: sealed group voting, offline-first trip planning, reviewed booking-email import and live flight alerts, built and shipped end to end.
Client work runs the same way. Products like My Love Your Love, a relationship-education platform created by clinical psychologists, with an iOS and Android app built around the 8 Love Links framework, a marketing website and a therapist directory. It has 10,000+ downloads across iOS and Android.
That's the pitch, and it's deliberately short: not a slide deck, just products you can download right now. When you hire Appalanche, you hire the person who built them.
Download figures are combined iOS and Android totals.
How I work
Five rules that don't bend, whatever the project is.
Ship weekly
You see working software every week, not a status deck. Real builds land on your phone or in your browser from the first sprint.
Plain-English communication
No jargon, no account managers translating in the middle. You get straight answers on what's done, what's next and what it costs.
Fixed quotes
Scope agreed up front and a fixed price in AUD before work starts. If the scope changes, the quote changes first, never the invoice after.
You own what you pay for
Repositories and project accounts can be set up under your control. On full payment, ownership of the custom code, designs and documentation transfers to you.
Senior hands only
The person you brief is the person who builds. Nothing gets handed down to a junior or shipped off to an outsourced team.
The stack
Boring where it should be, modern where it counts. The same tools that run Limbo and My Love Your Love in production.
- React Native
- Expo
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Express
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
- Vercel
- Stripe
- LLM/AI integrations
- 2 products in production
- Limbo and My Love Your Love, live on both app stores today
- iOS & Android
- A shared React Native foundation, with platform-specific work where required
- NSW, Australia
- Based here, working in Australian time zones with Australian clients
Work directly with the person who builds it
Tell me what you're building and you'll get a straight answer and a fixed quote, not a discovery-phase runaround.