How this studio works
I'm John Hammond. I run MRVL Technologies from the UK, and I build apps full-time across productivity, creativity, security, and lifestyle.
The studio model is simple. Most of the team is me, plus contractors brought in for specific work — design, motion, native platform expertise, audit passes. Every app ships under one roof, on the same release cadence, with the same support email. When something breaks at 9pm, the person who fixes it is the person who built it.
That keeps quality consistent and feedback loops tight. A bug report from a Poolr user might lead to a fix the same evening, then to a feature in the next release, then to a related improvement in TapTrust or Hawk where the same pattern applies.
What we make
Thirty apps, grouped roughly into four product lines:
Productivity & business
- TapTrust — NFC-powered review collection for local businesses
- Invoicr — fast invoicing for small operators and freelancers
- Findr — venue and space booking, with instant-book support
- Konnect — CRM and contact management
Creativity & content
- Promptr — video teleprompter with voice scroll
- Clipr — short-form clip editor
- Scribr — transcription and notes
- Podcastr — recording and publishing for solo podcasters
Security & privacy
- ARK — personal privacy and breach monitoring
- Hawk — local-first identity safety
- Guard — password and access management
Lifestyle & community
- Poolr — shared photo pools for events and weddings
- Gathrd — event planning and RSVP
- BIBL — daily scripture reading with reminders
- Ekklesia — community tools for churches and small groups
The full portfolio is on apps.mrvltechnologies.com.
How we approach pricing
Most apps have a free tier that's genuinely useful — not the kind of free tier that exists to push you onto a paid plan in two days. The paid tiers exist to fund the studio and to gate the features that have real ongoing costs (cloud storage, AI compute, third-party APIs).
Prices are in pounds sterling. We use Apple's and Google's purchasing-power adjustments so that £9.99 in the UK becomes a fair local price in markets where £9.99 is half a week's wages. That's not a marketing flourish — it's why MRVL apps run in 175 countries.
Why build thirty apps instead of one
Honest answer: because the cost of starting a new app dropped to almost nothing, and because the same underlying infrastructure (auth, payments, schema, analytics, support tooling) gets used thirty times instead of once. Each new app is a few weeks of focused work on top of a stack we already trust.
The downside is well documented — it's harder to be famous in any one category. The upside is that we can ship a niche app for ten thousand people without having to bet the studio on it. If TapTrust grows to a million businesses, brilliant. If it stays at twenty thousand, that's still a healthy line of revenue that funds the next thing.
If you want to talk about a specific app, the fastest path is support@mrvltechnologies.com. For partnerships, press, or anything else, that same address reaches me directly.
Where we are
The studio is registered in England. Most of our customers are in the UK, US, Australia, and Western Europe, with the largest growing segments in India, Brazil, and Mexico. We don't have a flashy office. The work happens between Cardiff and London, with the occasional week in Lisbon when the weather's better there.