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Independent software studio

Software for the way life works.

My Empower designs and builds apps, websites and the systems behind them, for needs that off-the-shelf software misses. You work directly with the person who builds it, from the first conversation to release.

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iOS · Android · macOS · Web services

When off-the-shelf software does not quite fit.

  • A process that eats the week

    Spreadsheets passed around, details typed twice, a step that depends on one person remembering. Software shaped around how your work actually happens.

  • An idea from your own experience

    You know a field well and can see the app it is missing. Start with the need, then agree a sensible first version and the right platform.

  • A system with many moving parts

    People, processes and existing tools that all have to connect. A systems perspective grounded in decades of utilities work in different countries.

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Designed, built and run by My Empower.

Independent product · iPhone and web

Diveology

A scuba dive log for iPhone and the web. It downloads dives from 115 Bluetooth dive computer models and Apple Watch Ultra, works offline, and links each dive with buddies, dive centres and marine research.

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Independent product · Web, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV

Bauernschnapsen

The Austrian card games Bauernschnapsen and Schnapsen, free in the browser against the computer, or online with friends and family, in English and German.

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What working with My Empower means.

  • One person, start to finish

    The person you discuss the project with is the person who designs and builds it. No hand-offs, and nothing lost between a sales conversation and the code.

  • The whole system, not just the screen

    The app, the website, the server and the admin tools behind them, built to work together. Diveology's portals for dive centres and Bauernschnapsen's online tables are examples.

  • Respect for the people using it

    My Empower's websites load nothing from elsewhere: no advertising, no third-party trackers, visits counted without cookies. They are hosted in Australia, in Amazon's Sydney region.

Experience that looks beyond the screen.

My Empower's founder started in software at Microsoft in the 1990s, then spent decades in utilities in different countries: complex systems where one decision can affect many people and many other parts of the whole.

That is the habit the studio brings to every brief. Find out how the whole situation works, ask practical questions, then make deliberate choices about what to build and what to leave out.

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A clear path from question to software.

  1. Understand

    A conversation about the problem, the people involved and what success looks like. No specification needed.

  2. Shape

    Agree a useful first version and the platform that suits it, before development begins.

  3. Build

    Working software you can try as it takes shape, with room to change course from what you learn.

  4. Release and improve

    Release to the App Store or the web, then review what works and agree the next priorities.

What would you like to make work better?

Tell My Empower about the problem, the idea or the process you want to improve.

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