Niko Developments

UK software studio · Company no. 17450168

Any platform. Any stack. Engineered end to end.

Mobile, web, cloud, Web3, AI or embedded: we work across every major technology and choose what fits your product, not what we happen to know. One senior team designs, builds and runs it, then hands you code you will be glad to own.

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  • iOS
  • Android
  • Web
  • Cloud & DevOps
  • Web3
  • AI & automation
  • Embedded & IoT
  • Games

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  • Hashmarkets: Mining doesn't produce blocks, it produces heat. Markets on Bitcoin's mining economy, quoted in HEAT, on Solana.
    Web3Web

    Hashmarkets

    Markets on Bitcoin's mining economy, such as hashprice and difficulty, built on Solana and quoted in the HEAT token, with 40% of every fee distributed to holders every 15 minutes.

    Solana · Anchor · Solana Wallet Adapter · Tokenomics · Vite

  • The HandyApp app icon: a blue house shaped like a speech bubble.
    MobileSaaS

    HandyApp

    A UK home-services marketplace where homeowners post projects and receive bids from verified tradespeople. We built and maintained the iOS app from 2022 to 2026, writing about half of all its commits, and deployed its six-service Go backend.

    Swift · SwiftUI · Apollo GraphQL · Stripe · Onfido · Go · Caddy · Azure Pipelines

  • Hand-drawn map of Devaglow, the Magic Era town, with its bank, tavern, mission house, shop and arena.
    Web

    Magic Era

    A long-running Latvian browser MMORPG with clans, battles, markets and quests. We moved roughly 137k lines of legacy PHP onto PHP 8 in Docker, with a new PDO data layer, CSRF protection and output escaping throughout.

    PHP 8.1 · MariaDB · Docker · PDO · Security hardening

  • The Niko app showing a Tesla's battery level, range and lock state with controls for unlock, climate and automations.
    Mobile

    Niko for iPhone

    A Tesla companion that locks the car, cools the cabin, opens the boot, watches the charge and finds it on a map.

    Swift 6 · TCA · SwiftUI · Tesla Fleet API

  • The Niko Live Activity on an iPhone Lock Screen showing charging at 7.0 kW with time remaining.
    MobileEmbedded

    Charging Live Activity

    State of charge, charging speed, time remaining and energy added on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.

    ActivityKit · SwiftUI · WidgetKit

  • The Niko Apple Watch app showing the car's charge and controls.
    Mobile

    Niko on Apple Watch

    The car's essentials on the wrist in a companion watchOS app.

    watchOS · SwiftUI

  • Niko for Android showing a Long Range AWD Tesla at 62% and charging, locked, with Unlock, Climate, Controls and Automations.
    Mobile

    Niko for Android

    The same product on Android, written natively in Kotlin with a modular Jetpack Compose architecture.

    Kotlin · Jetpack Compose · Modular features

  • The Niko automations screen grouped into Charging, Arriving and leaving, At a time and Security.
    SaaSEmbedded

    Vehicle automation engine

    25 triggers and 34 actions in up to 20 rules the car follows while the app is closed, including charging in the cheapest hours of an Octopus tariff.

    Go · PostgreSQL · Redis · Octopus Energy API

  • Architecture of the Niko platform: iOS, watchOS, Android and web clients, an API gateway, seven Go services, PostgreSQL and Redis, a signed command proxy and the Tesla Fleet API.
    SaaSEmbedded

    Connected-vehicle platform

    Seven Go services, run as twelve containers, for identity, vehicle state, signed commands, fleet telemetry and notifications, behind one gateway with a public status report.

    Go · PostgreSQL · Redis · Fleet Telemetry · OpenAPI · Docker

  • The Niko website garage listing three Teslas with model, VIN and online state.
    SaaSWeb

    Read-only web garage

    Every car on the account, its charge and last known position in the browser, isolated on its own origin from the marketing site.

    Web · Same-origin API proxy · Caddy

  • The live status page reporting all systems operational for Niko Developments and the Niko app.
    SaaSWeb

    Live service status

    One status page for the agency and the Niko app, cached so a burst of visitors during an outage never adds load.

    Next.js · TypeScript · Go · Redis

Proof, not promises

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  • 4

    Platforms in one product: iOS, watchOS, Android and web

  • 7

    Go services behind the Niko app

  • 11

    Languages the Niko site is published in

  • 59

    Vehicle triggers and actions in the automation engine

Engineering capability matrix

Every layer of the product, one accountable team.

We are technology-agnostic: these are the areas clients ask for most, not the limits of what we do. Pick one to see where we have shipped it.

Native Mobile Engineering

Native iOS, watchOS and Android apps that stay fast as the feature list grows.

Full-Stack & Cloud Architecture

Services that are boring in production: observable, containerised and documented.

Decentralised & Web3

On-chain products built with the same engineering discipline as the off-chain ones.

AI & Automation

Automation that earns its place in the product rather than decorating it.

Native Mobile Engineering

Swift 6 & structured concurrency

Strict concurrency checking and Sendable models from day one.

Where we shipped it

  • Niko for iPhone

    A Tesla companion that locks the car, cools the cabin, opens the boot, watches the charge and finds it on a map.

  • Niko on Apple Watch

    The car's essentials on the wrist in a companion watchOS app.

  • HandyApp

    A UK home-services marketplace where homeowners post projects and receive bids from verified tradespeople. We built and maintained the iOS app from 2022 to 2026, writing about half of all its commits, and deployed its six-service Go backend.

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