Minnowsoft

Special operations engineering.

Minnowsoft is a large senior team that takes hard problems from idea to production. Lately that means AI: agents, real-time voice and video, native apps.

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Products shipped
7
Areas of operation
  • Mobile
  • Web
  • Backend
  • Design
  • Product
  • BizDev
Home base
San Francisco

Work

Selected work

  • Godmode

    Deployed

    AI companions built to scale your Dunbar's 150.

    Native SwiftUI app on a custom GraphQL backend, with a Next.js web app for real-time chat.

    • Full-stack
    • Mobile
    • TypeScript
    • Swift

  • Call Me Maybe

    Deployed

    A real-time AI voice game with branching phone calls.

    An in-house engine on Twilio and WebSockets: live speech recognition, TTS, and LLM-driven dialog.

    • Backend
    • JavaScript
    • TypeScript

  • Woody

    Deployed

    Stable Diffusion on the phone itself. No network, 30-second renders.

    CoreML and Apple's optimized SD variants, in a SwiftUI app with prompts, previews, and render history.

    • Mobile
    • Swift
    • SwiftUI

  • Clawfren

    Beta

    Video-call your AI best friend, face to face.

    Streaming video avatars with low-latency speech on iOS. 20+ voices, persistent memory, and hooks that run your calendar and email by voice.

    • iOS
    • Real-time video
    clawfren.ai (opens in new tab)

  • Couchverse

    Deployed

    AI co-hosts that react to whatever you're watching.

    A Chrome extension taps tab audio and streams it to LiveKit agents, which talk back in character. Works on any video or podcast.

    • Full-stack
    • Chrome
    • Python
    • LiveKit
    couchverse.tv (opens in new tab)

  • SoShop

    Demo

    Live shopping with an AI host that pitches and sells in real time.

    Built on LemonSlice. The product talk, the Q&A, and the pitch are all generated on the fly.

    • Web
    • Real-time video
    • LemonSlice
    soshop.tv (opens in new tab)

  • Zoom Bots

    Deployed

    An AI participant that joins your Zoom, Meet, or Teams call.

    It dials in like anyone else, then sees, hears, and answers the room in real time.

    • Backend
    • Real-time video

Approach

How we work

A large senior team. We drop in, take the hard parts, and hand back something your people can run.

What we do

  1. Ship production apps across engineering, design, and product
  2. Stand up MVPs that harden into real products
  3. Unblock the hard problems: agents, real-time video, systems
  4. Leave teams with patterns, docs, and guardrails

How we operate

  1. Plan precisely, then move fast
  2. Short loops: design, build, validate
  3. Instrument everything and decide on signal
  4. Own the outcome end to end

Contact

Tell us what you're building.

We're a large team, so we take on lots of projects at a time.

Email us

San Francisco, CA