INNOVATIVE CROWis a full-stackproduct studio.
We build web applications, 3D and immersive experiences, backend and cloud systems, and complete products end to end.
Selected work
Six products. Every one of them live.
- Plate 01
Meridian
2025Scheduling for distributed engineering teams.
A planning surface that reads a team's real calendar load and proposes the handful of meeting windows that cost the least focus time. A single-page app over a Spring Boot service.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Spring Boot
- Postgres
- Plate 02
Kiln
2025A configurator for made-to-order ceramics.
Customers shape a piece in the browser — profile, glaze, dimensions — and the studio receives a manufacturable spec. Real-time preview, no render farm.
- React
- Three.js
- Blender
- GCP
- Plate 03
Tidewater
2024Flood-risk reporting for coastal councils.
Ingests tide gauge and rainfall telemetry, then publishes the daily risk picture as a map and a printable brief. The print output is the part that actually gets used.
- Next.js
- Java
- PostGIS
- Docker
- Plate 04
Ledgerline
2024Reconciliation tooling for small finance teams.
Matches bank statements against an internal ledger and surfaces only the rows that disagree. Designed around the two hours a month when someone actually opens it.
- React
- TypeScript
- Spring Boot
- CI/CD
- Plate 05
Atlas Field
2023An offline-first survey app for site engineers.
Works in a basement with no signal, syncs when it surfaces. Conflict resolution is explicit and visible rather than automatic and silent.
- Next.js
- IndexedDB
- Java
- GCP
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Second Press
2023A publishing platform for independent printers.
Catalogue, stock and pre-orders in one place, with a storefront each press can restyle without touching code. Static output, so hosting costs almost nothing.
- Next.js
- Tailwind
- GSAP
- Docker
About the studio
We are a small team that takes products from a first conversation to something running in production. Design, frontend, backend and infrastructure sit in the same room, which is why scope questions get answered in hours rather than sprints.
We work in short engagements with a named owner on both sides, ship to a real environment early, and leave the client's team able to run the thing without us.
Figures pending — placeholder
- 8 years
- Building products
- 40+ products
- Shipped to production
- 24 technologies
- In regular use
Services
Four things, done properly.
- Stage 01
Web apps & frontend
Production React and Next.js: design systems, complex state, accessibility, and a performance budget held from the first commit rather than audited at the end.
- Stage 02
3D & immersive experiences
Real-time 3D in the browser — configurators, product visualisation, scene work. Modelled in Blender, delivered as something that loads on a laptop.
- Stage 03
Backend & cloud
Java and Spring Boot services, relational data modelling, containerisation, and deployment pipelines anyone on the team can read and re-run.
- Stage 04
Full product builds, end to end
One team from the first sketch to the running system: discovery, interface, services, infrastructure, and a handover that leaves your team in charge of it.
Tech stack
What we build with. Capabilities, not integrations.
Frontend
- React
- Role: Interface layer
- Next.js
- Role: Routing and rendering
- Tailwind
- Role: Design tokens and styling
- GSAP
- Role: Motion and scroll
3D
- Blender
- Role: Modelling and baking
- Three.js
- Role: Real-time rendering
Backend
- Java
- Role: Service language
- Spring Boot
- Role: Application framework
- JDK
- Role: Runtime and tooling
Cloud
- GCP
- Role: Hosting and data
- Docker
- Role: Packaging
- CI/CD
- Role: Build and delivery
Open Source
Work we maintain in public. Figures are read from GitHub when the site is built, so they move when we redeploy — not continuously.
- innovative-crow
static-next-kit
The starting point we use for statically exported Next.js sites: theme tokens, GSAP wiring, and an .htaccess that behaves on shared hosting.
- stars
- 412
- forks
- 38
- Language
- TypeScript
Plate 01 - innovative-crow
spring-boot-patterns
Annotated Spring Boot services showing the shapes we reach for — pagination, idempotent writes, error envelopes, and the tests that pin them down.
- stars
- 286
- forks
- 51
- Language
- Java
Plate 02 - innovative-crow
scroll-primitives
Small, dependency-light React hooks for pinned and horizontal scroll sections that tear themselves down properly on resize.
- stars
- 634
- forks
- 44
- Language
- TypeScript
Plate 03 - innovative-crow
blender-web-export
A Blender add-on that exports scenes at a size the web can actually load, with a report explaining what it dropped and why.
- stars
- 173
- forks
- 22
- Language
- Python
Plate 04
Blog
Notes from the work.
- Engineering
Shipping a Next.js site to shared hosting without a Node runtime
Static export removes more than you expect, and most of it turns out to be things you did not need. What we changed, and the one .htaccess file that made it behave.
9 minComing soon - Frontend
A horizontal pinned section that survives a resize
Most pinned-scroll implementations break the moment the viewport changes. The fix is not more maths — it is tearing the whole thing down and rebuilding it.
12 minComing soon - Practice
The three questions we ask before quoting a product build
Who owns the decision, what does the first real user do on day one, and what happens to this system when we leave. Everything else is detail.
6 minComing soon