A small studio for brands that won't ship generic.
Softglimmer Services is a four-person studio of senior designers and engineers. We work with founders, marketing leads and product teams who care about how their digital presence actually feels — not just how it looks in a deck.
Founded in 2019, in a single Notion doc.
Softglimmer started as a Friday-night side project — a written manifesto about what a modern web studio should be. Senior-only. Honest pricing. No retainers we couldn't deliver against.
Six years and 120+ launches later, the manifesto hasn't changed. We're still small, still senior, still allergic to fluff. We just ship better work than we did last year.
Today we partner with founders shipping their first site, scale-ups rebuilding a flagship product surface, and brands that need a visual system to survive the next decade.
Four values that shape every project.
Senior by default
Every line of code and every pixel is touched by a senior. No junior handoffs, ever.
Honest scope
We tell you what's worth building — and what isn't. Even when it loses us hours.
Performance is design
A site that loads in 0.9s is a better design than one that doesn't. We don't separate them.
Long after launch
We stay for 30 days post-launch to tune real-world conversion and content.
The four people on every project.
12 years designing for fintech and developer-tools.
TypeScript everywhere. Loves a Lighthouse score that ends in 100.
Builds brand systems that survive the first re-brand attempt.
Makes editor experiences clients actually use weekly.