We build social & SaaS products
that can scale to real users.

Ironwood Software LLC partners with founders and teams to design, build, and run secure, cloud-native applications – from first MVP to production at scale. We specialize in social, community-driven, and data-heavy products.

Typically working with product teams who care about performance, security, and long-term maintainability.
Services

What we build with you

From green-field products to rewrites of critical systems, we combine product thinking, strong engineering, and pragmatic DevOps to ship software that’s built to last.

Product Strategy & Discovery

Clarify what to build, why it matters, and how to de-risk it before you commit a full budget.

  • Requirement & scope workshops
  • Technical feasibility assessments
  • Architecture & data-model design
  • Roadmaps & phased delivery plans

Web & Mobile Applications

Modern, responsive applications focused on usability, performance, and accessibility.

  • Responsive web apps (SPA / SSR)
  • API-driven mobile clients
  • Design systems & UX patterns
  • Role-based access control

API & Platform Engineering

Clean, documented APIs and robust backends that can safely serve many clients and integrations.

  • REST / JSON APIs & webhooks
  • Authentication & authorization
  • Relational data modeling
  • Background jobs & workers

Cloud, DevOps & Reliability

Infrastructure that’s observable, testable, and ready to grow as your user base grows.

  • Containerization & CI/CD pipelines
  • Environment-specific configs
  • Monitoring, logs & alerts
  • Backups & disaster recovery
Social & community

Specialized in user-generated content

Many of our builds center around communities: user profiles, activity feeds, reviews, check-ins, and rich analytics – plus the tooling and safety features needed behind the scenes.

We help founders and teams design and implement the entire lifecycle of a social product: from first-time onboarding and growth loops to moderation workflows and reporting.

  • Account systems, profiles, and privacy controls
  • Activity feeds, timelines, and notifications
  • Ratings, reviews, and structured check-ins
  • Content flags, reports, and moderation queues
  • Feature flags and role-based access for your team
  • Analytics for understanding user behavior and growth
Approach

How we work with clients

A lightweight, collaborative process that keeps stakeholders in the loop, while giving us enough structure to ship reliably and iterate quickly.

Phase 1
Discover & define

We clarify goals, constraints, and success metrics. Expect working sessions, architecture sketches, and a right-sized scope for your first release.

Phase 2
Design & plan

We shape the user journeys, data models, and technical blueprint. You get a phased roadmap, estimates, and clear trade-offs before we write production code.

Phase 3
Build & validate

We ship in slices – integrating backend, frontend, and infrastructure – with demos along the way. Tests, logging, and basic analytics are included by default.

Phase 4
Launch & support

We help you launch, monitor, and learn from real usage. From there we can continue as a product partner, or hand off cleanly to your internal team.

Let’s talk about what you’re building.

Whether you’re validating a new idea or hardening a product that’s already in the wild, we’re happy to explore how Ironwood Software LLC can help.

Email contact@ironwoodsoftware.com
Email
contact@ironwoodsoftware.com
Typical engagements
Discovery sprints, MVP builds, platform rewrites, ongoing product partnerships.
Working style
Remote-friendly, collaborative, and transparent about trade-offs, scope, and budget.