Software studio in Arizona
Caplan Studio is an independent software studio in Arizona. Gamenight, PantryTrack, Tales & Fables, BookLocally and three more are ours. We designed them, wrote the code, and still maintain the servers they run on.
We build things people actually use, and then we keep them running. Nothing gets handed off. When something breaks at two in the morning, it breaks for the person who wrote it.
01 / Live
Home base for gaming communities.
A multi-tenant platform where communities run their own hubs, with events, rosters, and live Riot API stats under one roof. Every tenant gets its own space without its own infrastructure.
02 / Live
Know your pantry.
Pantry management that people actually keep using. Track what you have, what's expiring, and what to buy. React runs the front end, with Express and Postgres behind it.
03 / Live
Write together, in real time.
A collaborative writing studio with live multi-author editing powered by Y.js, and paid plans handled through Stripe. It keeps stories, feedback, and co-writing in one place.
04 / Live
Bookings for local businesses, under their own brand.
White-label scheduling and payments for local service businesses. Each one gets a branded booking storefront without building a thing. It runs Next.js, Prisma, and Stripe end to end.
05 / Live
Employee management, simple at every step.
Multi-tenant scheduling, timesheets, and reporting for teams of any size, with RBAC, geofenced clock-ins, and per-org branding. It stays simple even as the depth grows underneath.
06 / Live
Study once. Remember for good.
A flashcard studio built around SM-2 spaced repetition. The review queue decides what you see and when, so nothing gets crammed twice. Streaks, stats, and achievements keep the habit alive. The shared deck library and accounts run on Express and SQLite.
07 / Live
Run your own server, with a site to match.
A Minecraft plugin pack and companion website for running a community under your own name. mc.pvpers.us, where the studio started, is the live proof: same pack, same site, still going. We host the website and the plugins. The server itself is yours to run.
Games
Founding Tide is a survival strategy game, now in private alpha. The other four are loud, quick games for friends who share one screen.
Private alpha
Shipwrecked. Outnumbered. Thirty days until rescue.
A top-down survival strategy game. You guide one castaway on a generated island, build a colony, and hold the campfire through raids that are announced at dawn.
In development
Grab a gun. Blow up your friends.
A fast stick-figure platform shooter for up to 16 players. Take a seat on the couch, join online, or let the bots fill the gaps. Rounds last a few minutes, and the chaos is the point.
In development
Chop, cook, plate, serve. Keep the stove from catching fire.
Everything above runs on hardware we manage, behind Cloudflare. We do the design, the code, the deploys, and the early-morning fix when a disk fills up. That last part is the one that keeps us honest: there's nobody else to hand the pager to.
An independent software studio in Arizona, founded by Carson Caplan. We stay small on purpose. Whoever builds a thing is the one who answers the email about it, which is harder to arrange the bigger you get. Carson's personal work lives at carsoncaplan.com →
Available for new projects
Everything above is ours, start to finish, and the same setup is available for your project. You'll be talking to the person writing your code the whole way through, which is most of the reason we stay small.
Marketing sites, landing pages, and storefronts, hand-built rather than assembled from a page builder. They load fast on a phone, read cleanly to search engines, and keep working the month you stop paying somebody a subscription.
Web apps with real accounts, databases, payments, and an admin side. If the work currently lives in a spreadsheet, a shared inbox, and somebody's memory, this is the part that replaces all three.
Domains, hosting, certificates, backups, and the restart nobody wants to do on a holiday. Every product on this page already runs on infrastructure we manage, so none of it is a new job for us.
A finished spec is welcome. So is a rough sketch, or a paragraph about the thing you keep doing by hand. We'll ask questions until the shape is clear.
Scope, timeline, and price, agreed in writing before any work starts. If the job changes along the way, we rewrite the terms and agree on them again before work continues. Nothing lands on an invoice you haven't already seen.
You get a working link early and watch it fill in, instead of waiting months for a reveal. Changes are cheap while we're still building and expensive after launch. So we'd honestly rather hear from you too often than not enough.
We deploy it, monitor it, and keep it current. Keep us on for upkeep, or take the code and the keys and run it yourself. That's your call to make later, not something you have to negotiate out of us.
Featured client
An artist, with an address of her own.
Gracie Holm paints the small things she notices outside. We built her a gallery, a shop for prints and custom pieces, and a mailing list she owns rather than rents. An admin panel lets her change the words and the artwork herself. It runs on the same infrastructure as everything above, and we keep it running.
Got something you want built? Tell us what it is. We'll be straight with you about whether we're the right studio for it, how long it would take, and what it would cost. All of it is settled before anything starts.
A project you want built, a question about one of our products, a partnership, or early access. It all lands in the same inbox, and we read every bit of it.
