We’re BluBird — three people in Calgary who build consumer apps and keep them working. No investors, no exit plan, no growth targets we didn’t set ourselves.
Crabby keeps it fresh. A friendly pinch before it spoils.
Know what’s in your fridge, what’s about to go off, and what you can make with it tonight. It exists because three people who love food kept throwing it in the bin. iOS, Android and web.
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One at a time. We finish an app before we start the next one, which is slower than it sounds and the reason we ship anything at all.
Every small app you rely on eventually gets worse. Ads arrive. The useful part moves behind a paywall. Your data becomes the product. It happens for a reason — somebody needed a bigger number. We don’t have anybody to answer to, which is what lets us say this and mean it.
Not aggregated into a data broker's product. Not quietly. Not ever.
Not a trial. Not a crippled demo built to annoy you into paying. If you never give us a cent, it should still earn its place on your phone.
Nothing on your screen that someone else paid to put there.
No client logos to show you yet. Here’s who’s actually doing the work.
Business
Travels religiously. Has already worked out the airport, the transit card and the good coffee before the rest of us have packed.
Technology
Star Wars and comic books. Will happily rebuild the thing twice to get it right, which is either the best or worst quality here.
Finance
Keeps us honest and keeps the receipts. Homesick for China in the way that makes her cook better than the rest of us.
Three. Jane, Rich and Queenie. That's the whole company, and it's not a stepping stone to a bigger one.
No, and we're not looking for any. Everything is funded by the three of us. It's the reason we can promise no ads and no data sales and actually keep it.
We all have day jobs. BluBird is incorporated, files its returns, signs real agreements and ships to real app stores. Small isn't the same as casual.
That's the right question to ask anyone you're about to trust with your groceries. We can't prove a future, but we can tell you the structure: no runway to run out of, no investor timeline, no acquisition to be absorbed into. The usual reasons small apps disappear don't apply to us.
Not yet, is the honest answer. Crabby's beta is free. When we do charge it will be for the app itself — never for you, or your data.
The company owns the apps, not any one of us. It's written down properly. That was the first thing we sorted out.
Calgary, Alberta. Canadian-owned and incorporated in Canada.
We don't take client work. Longer term we want to help junior developers ship their own first app using our launch process, with a revenue share. If that sounds like you, say hello and we'll remember you when it's real.
One email when a new app launches, and nothing in between. Nothing else, ever — which you’d hope, given the rest of this page.
Or just say hello — hello@buildwithblubird.com