Atom Technologies
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About us

We build tools
we wish existed.

A small, independent team making software for developers, students, and everyone in between. No outside investors. No growth-at-all-costs. Just craft and care.

6+
Products shipped and actively maintained
100%
Bootstrapped. No VC funding, ever.
0
Ads served in any of our products
Iterations before we call something done
Our mission

Small team.
Deliberate work.

We started because the tools we wanted didn't exist, or the ones that did were bloated, expensive, or built for someone else's use case. So we built our own — and kept building.

Every product we ship is something we use every day. That keeps us honest. It means we feel the rough edges, we notice when something's slow, and we care about the details that most teams cut in the name of shipping faster.

We don't build to flip or to raise. We're not optimising for DAUs or engagement metrics. We're optimising for tools people actually want to use — and for the kind of company we'd want to work at.

What we believe
01
Software should respect you
No dark patterns, no artificial lock-in, no surveillance. Our products work for users, not against them.
02
Craft is a competitive advantage
Details matter. Typography, response time, error messages — these things tell users whether you care. We do.
03
Small is a feature
Staying small lets us move fast, stay focused, and build relationships with the people who use what we make.
04
Independence is non-negotiable
We've turned down acquisition offers. We'll keep doing that. Staying independent means staying true to the mission.
Our story

How we got here.

Six products across five years. Each one started with the same question: why doesn't a good version of this exist?

2020
It started with frustration
Fed up with the proxy tools available at the time — overpriced, unreliable, or built for enterprise budgets — we built our own. It worked well enough that friends started asking to use it too.
2021
First real product launch
The proxy tool went public. We charged for it, people paid, and for the first time we had revenue without investors. That feeling was addictive in the right way.
2022
Two more products, two more lessons
We built the inventory manager after watching a friend manage stock in four different spreadsheets. Then the text editor, because we couldn't stop arguing about which existing one to use. Both shipped.
2023
Open source and community
We launched the Matrix client as MIT-licensed software, and something clicked. A community formed around it. People contributed, reported bugs, and told us what they needed. We started listening more and assuming less.
2024
Student app and hardware tool
A teammate's sibling was struggling through exam season with five different apps open. We thought we could do better in one. The hardware info tool came from the same place — we wanted to understand our machines, and existing options were either too basic or too overwhelming.
Now
Six products, still growing
We're a small team with six active products and a clear idea of what we want to build next. The mission hasn't changed: make software that respects the people using it.
The team

The people behind it.

AK
Alex Kim
Founder · Engineering
Builds the infrastructure and core product engines. Obsessed with response times and binary size. Previously at a CDN company nobody has heard of.
SC
Sofia Chen
Design · Frontend
Responsible for everything you see. Believes the best UI is the one you don't notice. Has opinions about type that border on religion.
MR
Marcus Rivera
Product · Backend
Figures out what to build and then helps build it. Spent years in B2B SaaS watching too many features get built for buyers instead of users.
JL
Jamie Lee
Mobile · Open source
Maintains the iOS and Android apps and leads the open-source community for the Matrix client. Contributor to four other projects before joining the team.
Open roles

Come build with us.

Senior backend engineer
Full-timeRemoteRust · Go
Product designer
Full-timeRemoteFigma · CSS
iOS / Android engineer
Part-timeRemoteSwift · Kotlin

Don't see a fit? We're always interested in people who care about craft. Drop us a note at hello@atomtechnologies.dev.

Explore our products.

Six tools built with the same care and attention you just read about. See for yourself.