Code Boys — Birmingham dev studio

We build apps and websites that actually ship — and ours are the proof.

A two-person Birmingham studio that designs, builds, and launches real software, then keeps it alive. Our own app, Crier, is live in both stores with thousands of people using it.

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“Easy to navigate interface, fun aesthetic, and super useful.”✳ “This app is really convenient and easy to use, I love it!…”✳ “The app already functions great, can’t wait to see what else is in store for this.”✳ “Incredible work — especially for a free app!”✳ “So slick, intuitive and minimal design. Phenom.”✳

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“The app already functions great, can’t wait to see what else is in store for this.”✳ “Incredible work — especially for a free app!”✳ “So slick, intuitive and minimal design. Phenom.”✳ “Easy to navigate interface, fun aesthetic, and super useful.”✳ “This app is really convenient and easy to use, I love it!…”✳

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“So slick, intuitive and minimal design. Phenom.”✳ “Easy to navigate interface, fun aesthetic, and super useful.”✳ “This app is really convenient and easy to use, I love it!…”✳ “The app already functions great, can’t wait to see what else is in store for this.”✳ “Incredible work — especially for a free app!”✳

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“This app is really convenient and easy to use, I love it!…”✳ “The app already functions great, can’t wait to see what else is in store for this.”✳ “Incredible work — especially for a free app!”✳ “So slick, intuitive and minimal design. Phenom.”✳ “Easy to navigate interface, fun aesthetic, and super useful.”✳

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“Incredible work — especially for a free app!”✳ “So slick, intuitive and minimal design. Phenom.”✳ “Easy to navigate interface, fun aesthetic, and super useful.”✳ “This app is really convenient and easy to use, I love it!…”✳ “The app already functions great, can’t wait to see what else is in store for this.”✳

Crier

A nightlife & events app — discovery, listings and ticketing for a city’s music and culture scene, designed and built end to end.

Product DesignMobile App View project ↗

Saturn Karaoke

A self-serve private karaoke room. Book and pay in the app, and a time-bound door code lets you into the room in back — no host to wait on, no key to pick up, and you can extend on the spot if the next hour’s open. We built it end to end — app, payments, and the door — for Saturn in Birmingham.

Product DesignMobile App View project ↗

Clarion

A civic news & explainer app that makes local government legible — clean reading, clear structure, calm design.

Product DesignDevelopment View project ↗

Checkpoint

Safety-compliance software for bars and nightclubs. It turns a dense venue-safety ordinance into guided safety plans, training logs, and nightly checklists — so when the city asks for proof, the owner produces a complete, timestamped compliance pack in one tap.

Product DesignMobile App View project ↗

Boxless

An algorithmic scoring & compliance tool that turns dense rules into clear, guided decisions.

Product DesignWeb App View project ↗

Summon

Uber for dungeon masters — book a pro GM for any system, in person or online. The game master keeps 100%.

Product DesignBrand & Motion Coming soon

Two people. Real products. Thousands of users.

Code Boys is a designer and an engineer in Birmingham who build real software end to end. Not mockups, not decks — apps that launch and stay launched.

We take the whole thing: design, front-end, backend, the app-store submission, and the part most studios quietly skip — keeping it fast and fixed once real people depend on it. And we’ve shipped our own to prove we can: a live-music app with thousands of users, a keyless booking system running in a real venue, and a civic tool that turns city hall into plain English.

DesignProduct, brand, UX/UI, motion, design systems — Figma straight through to production
Apps — web & mobileNext.js & React Native, iOS and Android, built end to end
Backends, data & AIFastAPI services, databases, the scrapers & pipelines that feed an app real data
The hard integrationsPayments, subscriptions, SMS, even keyless-entry hardware — we built a karaoke room that unlocks itself
Launch & keep aliveApp Store & Play submissions, deploys, and the upkeep most studios skip

1.4M

Lines of code

40+

Projects

25+

Years combined

Team — 01 / 02

Chris

Co-Founder / Design

The one who makes it all look good — and feel right. Chris has been designing since 2007, back when it was merch for bands; now it’s the whole product, drawn in Figma and built out front-end himself, so nothing’s lost between the mockup and your screen. Tattoos, video games, 50+ brands — all came across his desk first. Nerd at heart, which is exactly why it works.

Team — 02 / 02

Josh

Co-Founder / Engineering

The one who makes Code Boys go. Josh builds the backends, the data pipelines, the systems everything else runs on — a lot of them, across a wild spread of problems: a live-events app, a civic-transparency tool, a keyless door for a karaoke room. If we can dream it up, he builds it.