A world class product development team who can solve your problems fast
We build custom web and mobile apps that solve complex business problems. We build scale-able MVPs fast, and love gnarly problems that make other devs quiver in their boots.
If you want to work with a team of full-stack problem solvers, reach out and let's talk. Don't have a problem for us, but you know someone who does? Do us a favor and tell them about us.
"Working with the team at Thunk has been game changing for us. As a small bootstrapped company we don't have the same resources as our VC backed competitors, but having Thunk in our corner has allowed us to scale up our MVP at a speed we'd never achieve on our own.
We are excited to continue our relationship with Thunk and the flexible development resources they provide as we scale our company."
Jade Null, Founder @ GlitchSecure
Who are we...?
Thunk is not merely “devs for hire” – we're a team of killer full-stack problem-solvers, each with an area of deep expertise. We prefer big, complex problems that strike fear into the hearts of most developers.
Daniel Coulbourne
Daniel has been in the Laravel game since the early days. He learns the complex problems of a business quickly and models solutions so we can get our hands dirty on day one.
▶︎ Data Migrations with Event Sourcing @LaraconEU
John Drexler
John is obsessed with solving problems that matter and ignoring everything else. His Product Management battle-scars are what make us ship features so blindingly fast.
▶︎ Don't Solve Non-problems @PHPxNYC
Josh Hanley
Josh is a Senior dev, and a great teacher who makes everyone around him better. He's a longtime core contributor to Livewire, and his deep knowledge there elevates the whole team.
▶︎ Building a Maintainable Livewire Application @LaraconAU"John has been instrumental in helping us rethink and improve our software development processes. He's fantastic about asking the right questions, and has pushed us to throw away rituals that never really worked for us and truly commit to the ones that do."
Chris Morell, CEO @ InterNACHI
What we do best
To give you a taste of what we're good at, here are our strong suits, and some war stories of times they've come in handy.
Scalable MVPs, fast
Got an idea? We'll make it real faster than you can raise your Seed Round. We build solid, scalable MVPs. And we have the PMs to keep it focused on the right stuff.
Recently a client gave us a scope for an MVP along with a 10-week contract. We built the core functionality in 3 weeks, and spent the remainder of the contract adding features originally planned for after launch.
They renewed twice and we've been working with them for over 6 months.
Livewire
We are the best Laravel Livewire team in the world.
We've been writing Livewire longer and have a better understanding of its internals, strengths, and weaknesses than anyone else. This makes us insanely productive when it comes to building complex interfaces.
We recently worked on a complex app with a lot of Livewire 2 components built for different purposes. We helped them move to Livewire 3 and refactor their components to a flexible set that could be reused across the app.
We also set up some light processes with their dev team, which they are now successfully piloting on their own.
Complex business processes
Whether it's streamlining your invoice feature, or wrangling your gnarly business process with 1,000 edge cases – we’ve got you covered.
Our favorite clients have had messy real-world requirements. We're talking invoices, reverse-invoices, multi-step approval processes, and more.
They have lots of user roles who need to use the app in slightly different ways. Nothing is simple, everything is hard, and we love it.
"I’ve worked with Daniel Coulbourne for almost a decade, and he’s a master of thinking deeply about difficult problems and coming up with creative solutions. Every project Daniel is on is a bit more fun and a lot more likely to succeed.
I don’t have a decade with them, but John Drexler is a hard working guy with a lot of fresh ideas, and Josh Hanley is one of the top thinkers about Laravel’s Livewire. All in all, I love these guys."
Matt Stauffer, CEO @ Tighten