We are a focused, senior mobile product team that ships products people genuinely love — and use every day.
Draco Studio started with a simple frustration: most apps are built by teams who never actually talk to users. They prioritize features over feelings, code over craft, and ship dates over sense.
Our founders Alex and Marcus had seen this up close — Alex from the product side, Marcus from engineering — and decided to build the team they always wished existed. Small, senior, and obsessive about mobile experience.
Today, our apps serve over 10 million active users across iOS and Android. We still know every member of our team by name. We still read every App Store review. And we still believe the best products come from teams who truly care.
Draco Studio founded by Alex Chen & Marcus Tran. First app reaches 100K users within 60 days of launch.
Sophie Liu joins as Lead Designer. Team grows to 3. App reaches 1M users. Seed round closed.
iOS & Android expanded with James and Riya. Second product launched, Series A secured.
10M+ users milestone hit. Featured in App Store & Play Store Best of Year. Team continues to scale responsibly.
New product in stealth mode. Expanding the team with senior mobile talent. The best is ahead.
"We believe every interaction on a mobile device is a chance to delight — and we take every single one seriously."
Every sprint, every meeting, every design review starts and ends with one question: does this make the user's life better? Not easier for us — better for them.
We don't ship things we're not proud of. We'd rather delay a release than ship a janky experience. Craft matters and we hold each other to high standards.
We deliberately stay lean. A small team of exceptional people moves faster, communicates better, and ships higher quality than bloated teams ever could.
We share context freely — metrics, failures, experiments. When everyone knows the full picture, everyone makes better decisions.
Ideas are cheap; shipped products generate learning. We favor weekly shipping cycles, real user data, and rapid iteration over lengthy planning phases.
We invest in each other's careers. Mentorship, feedback, learning budgets — we are each other's biggest asset and treat the team accordingly.