Recent case studies
A small slice of what we've shipped lately.
Crayonbook (Milannial solo product)
Crayonbook: AI coloring pages and storybooks for families
A 100% Milannial solo product: parents turn a prompt into printable A4 coloring pages or short storybooks; kids color in the browser; families share links and export print-ready PDFs. Pre-launch — built and dogfooded internally.
Duration
Pre-launch · built and dogfooded
Stack
Next.js 16 · React 19 · PostgreSQL · Auth.js · Vercel AI SDK
European retail-technology vendor (confidential)
European grocery self-scan: whitelabel Flutter on Zebra handhelds for 10+ retail brands
A Flutter monorepo powering a whitelabel self-scan platform — shoppers scan and bag on store-owned Zebra devices, staff run rescan and loss-prevention from a dedicated Attendant app, live across multiple EU grocery chains.
Duration
Long-term engagement · multi-country rollout
Stack
Flutter 3.35 / Dart 3.9 · Melos monorepo · flutter_bloc + BlocMachine · Chopper REST + OpenAPI Device API · OAuth2 client-credentials
Recorder (Asociația Recorder)
Recorder: native app engineering and donation platform for independent journalism
Ongoing engineering on native iOS + Android apps and an end-to-end donation platform for Romania's leading independent newsroom — 3k+ recurring subscribers, hundreds of thousands of transactions, and almost 40k Form 230 submissions.
Duration
Ongoing partnership · ~2+ years
Stack
Swift / SwiftUI · Kotlin / Jetpack Compose · WordPress REST (PHP) · Node.js / Express · Stripe
WishPlanner (Milannial solo product)
WishPlanner: charity fundraising that lives inside everyday gifting
A 100% Milannial solo product for NGOs and individuals: vetted impact stories with Stripe donations and certificates, year-round wishlists, and group gifting (Secret Santa / birthday) that can fund charity wishes - 100+ users, 200+ donations, 5 live stories, unlimited wishes.
Duration
Ongoing · live with first users
Stack
Next.js · React · PostgreSQL · Prisma · NextAuth
BYB (co-owned venture)
BYB: a white-label, multi-tenant platform for startup intake and AI-assisted evaluation
A SaaS venture co-owned 49% by Milannial, built end-to-end and now in pilot with first users: intake through AI pre-analysis, judge matching, scoring, structured feedback and 1:1 sessions - ~12 applications in the first edition, 6 equal-weighted criteria, 3 AI providers switchable at runtime, tenant isolation and GDPR designed in from day one.
Duration
Ongoing - in pilot with first users
Stack
Next.js · Supabase · PostgreSQL + RLS · Drizzle · pg-boss