Barge Studios

Software studio  ·  Yokohama, Japan  ·  Est. 2021

We build software and we ship our own.

Most agencies hand over the keys and sail off. We stay in the water with you — and we run our own products on the same rails we build yours on.

Registry
bargestudios.com
Home port
Yokohama, JP
Own products
Timepeep · Settle Me
Client work
Booking Q4 2026

What we carry

Cargo
aboard

Two products we own outright — funded, staffed and maintained by the studio. They are how we test our own engineering before it touches your build.

Time tracking for teams that hate time tracking. Hours land where the work happens, and the invoice writes itself at the end of the month.

Status Live Since 2023 Built in House

Shared costs, sorted. Log what everyone paid, see who owes what, and close the balance in one move instead of six awkward messages.

Status Live Since 2024 Built in House

Client work

What we build
for you

Product

Web & mobile apps

From a blank repository to a product in real users' hands — interface, API, database, the whole hull.

Platform

Cloud & DevOps

AWS and Kubernetes set up so deploys are boring: pipelines, monitoring, and infrastructure you can read.

Data

AI & NLP

Language models and text pipelines applied to a specific job, with an honest answer on whether you need them.

Rescue

Taking over a build

Inherited a codebase that nobody wants to touch? We audit it, stabilise it, and get shipping again.

Working with us

How a build runs

01

Scope

A week of questions before a line of code. We come back with what to build, what to cut, and what it costs.

02

Build in the open

Two-week cycles with something running at the end of each one. You have the repository from day one.

03

Ship

Launch on your infrastructure, in your accounts, with the pipeline and docs your team needs to run it.

04

Stay in the water

A retainer for the months after launch, when the real bugs and the real users turn up together.

Get in touch

Tell us
what you're
building.

hello@bargestudios.com
Reply time
Within 2 working days
Minimum engagement
4 weeks
Working hours
JST, overlap on request
Taking work
From Q4 2026