Product · 01
TerraHiker
Trail intelligence you can trust.
A smarter way to understand the trails you hike, built for the backcountry.
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A product studio · Canada
Anything worth building.
We design, build and ship our own products, and partner with teams who need senior engineering to bring theirs to life.
What we do
Two ways we work: our own products, and yours.
How we work
Small teams. Considered decisions.
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Start narrow
One problem, done properly, beats ten done halfway. We scope to the smallest thing that is genuinely useful.
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Ship real things
Working software in front of real people, early and often. Progress you can see, not slide decks.
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Build to last
Clear architecture, honest tests and proven technology where it counts, so what we build keeps working.
Consulting
Experience that shortens the path.
Over a decade of shipping systems at startups and scale-ups, and leading engineering teams across time zones.
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Backend & platforms
APIs, services and 0-to-1 products, from technical design to production, including payments and integrations.
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Cloud & infrastructure
AWS and GCP, serverless and event-driven architectures, with observability built in from the start.
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AI products
LLM-powered features and agents that are grounded in real data and honest about their limits.
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Web & mobile
Product front ends and mobile apps that feel fast, clear and well made.
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Technical leadership
Architecture reviews, team leadership, mentoring and hiring, whether you need a lead or a second opinion.
About
We are a small product studio. We build things we believe should exist, and bring the same craft to other teams' hardest engineering problems.
10+years shipping software
Idea → Launchend-to-end product delivery
Our name
Why “Dotstar”? In code, .* matches everything.
It's a universal wildcard: it means “anything at all”. That's the studio: we're not tied to one product, one industry or one kind of problem. Some of what we build is software, some isn't, and all of it starts with the same question: is this worth making?