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The group

A small studio that would rather own things than invoice for them.

Builders, growth people and revenue people around one table. We make Android products under our own name, and take on work for founders who want theirs made the same way.

We learned this on the store, not in a boardroom. Everything we know about retention curves and ad floors came from shipping products, watching them underperform, and going back in to repair them. That history is why we stay close to the figures and short on opinions we cannot evidence.

Operators as much as makers. A good many firms can write the app. Fewer will then find the audience and balance the revenue without quietly spoiling the thing they made. We do all three because, on our own holdings, there is nobody to hand it to.

Nobody's clock but ours. ZZK Group is founder-led and funded by its own work. No investor timetable, so a product can take the year it needs rather than the quarter a board would allow it.

House rules

Three rules that settle most of it.

Nearly every disagreement here ends at one of these, so they may as well be written down.

Rule 01

The product comes first

No amount of media spend or clever paywall design rescues something people will not open twice. We earn the right to grow a thing by making it good before anything else happens to it.

Rule 02

Report it plainly

We measure what genuinely matters and state it plainly, to ourselves before anyone else. No chart arranged to flatter, no axis that quietly moved between meetings.

Rule 03

Compounding beats a spike

A spike is an anecdote. A cohort that holds is a business. We build for the person still opening it next spring, not the one who leaves before the tutorial ends.

How we operate

Founder-led, self-funded, unhurried.

Owning what we make is what keeps us honest. We don't buy installs we cannot keep, we don't ship filler to meet a date, and we don't hide a subscription behind a button dressed up as a close. If that costs us a quarter now and then, so be it.

OwnershipFounder-led
FundingSelf-funded
HorizonYears, not quarters
Published onGoogle Play
Dark patternsNone

Let's build something worth keeping.

Tell us what you're starting, growing or letting go of. You'll hear back inside a day.