Your Hearth LLC · Illinois, United States
Your Hearth is a software company. We develop our own applications, and we take on defined builds for other people. Either way, the deliverable is the same thing: working software, in the hands of whoever needed it.
We are not a consultancy. We do not sell advice, audits, discovery phases, or hours. You do not hire us to tell you what to build. You hire us to build it, and we hand over the finished thing.
A lot of what we work on is too small, too specific, or too unglamorous for a product company to ever ship. That is the part we find interesting.
Two kinds of work
Track one
Small, focused apps aimed at friction we have run into ourselves or watched people around us work around. The common thread is locality: things that help a household, a neighborhood, or an organization that operates on a handful of people and goodwill.
Track two
Someone has a problem with a clear shape and no product that fits it. We scope the build, write it, test it, and hand it over. One defined piece of software, delivered, with the source and the keys going to you.
How we work
Before anything is written we want to know who is stuck, what they currently do instead, and what would actually have to change for the problem to be gone. Most bad software is the answer to a question nobody checked.
A narrow thing that works beats a broad thing that nearly does. We would rather tell you a piece of the idea is not worth building than bill you for it, and we say so before we start rather than halfway through.
We treat personal data as a liability rather than an asset. Some things genuinely have to live on a server, and where that is true we say so rather than implying otherwise. We run no advertising software, no third-party analytics and no trackers, in our applications or on this website.
Work finishes with something you can run and own: the software, the source, the accounts, and an explanation written for a person rather than for a filing cabinet.
Company details
Your Hearth is a registered limited liability company, not a side project with a landing page. If you are verifying who you are dealing with, this is the short version.
Get in touch
A paragraph is plenty to start. Describe what is going wrong and who it is going wrong for, and we will tell you honestly whether it is something we should build.