Four practices,
one studio.
We work end-to-end across the digital product lifecycle, from rough idea to production-grade system.
Custom Software
& Platforms
Internal tools, dashboards, marketplaces, and APIs that scale with your operations and replace the spreadsheet-and-string approach.
Mobile
Applications
Native & cross-platform apps for iOS and Android, from MVP through to App Store launch and the awkward years after.
eCommerce
& Storefronts
Bespoke Shopify and headless commerce builds for growing brands. High-conversion stores tuned for your catalogue, your customers, your margin.
Brand Sites
& Marketing
Editorial-grade marketing sites with the engineering rigour of a product team. Designed, written, built and measured by us.
Building it
yourself?
Good. We'll back you up. Advice, reviews and hands-on help for apps you built with Lovable, Cursor, Replit or any other tool. Priced to fit the budget, from $500.
Ask a senior dev
A call or a few hours for a second opinion, a stack question, or a straight answer to “is this safe to launch?”
A callReview & harden
We go through the code, data and accounts and hand you a plain-English list of what matters, ranked by consequence.
Fixed scopeDeveloper on call
You keep building. We unblock, fix, deploy and check what the AI wrote, a few hours at a time.
Bank of hoursTake it over
When it runs part of the business, we stabilise it, rebuild what needs it, and keep it running.
Scoped to youSelected work.
A six-project mix: three case studies and three tiles. The full archive lives at /project/.
Refined Wellness
Australasia's source for world-leading wellness, recovery and longevity technology, built on Next.js and headless Sanity for an immersive premium-product storefront.
- Type
- Storefront
- Content
- Headless
- Year
- 2025
Kollosche
Luxury property portal serving 90+ agents delivered with sub-2-second load times across all devices.
- Agents
- 90+
- Page load
- <2s
- Year
- 2022
IssuesID
Offline-first construction defect and quality platform. The multi-tenant, ground-up successor to DefectID, built to capture snags on site where there’s no signal.
- Platform
- SaaS
- Capture
- Offline
- Year
- 2026
From scope
to shipped.
Four phases. Linear when it can be, cyclical when it must be.
Discover
We sit with you for a week, map the system as it actually exists, and write the brief you wish you'd been given.
1–2 weeksDesign
Wireframe, prototype, validate. We design with code where useful, and pen and paper where wiser.
3–6 weeksBuild
Two-week sprints, demo on Fridays. Production-grade from day one. No throwaway prototypes pretending to be finished.
8–24 weeksOperate
Launch is a milestone, not a finish line. We monitor, iterate, and stay on retainer for the long tail of every project.
OngoingThe Journal.
Riso-printed essays on craft, code, and the businesses we build with.
Data Breaches Are Now an SMB Problem: Privacy Act Reforms and Your Web Forms
Big breaches make the news, but the Privacy Act reforms reach the contact form on a ten-page site. Here is where customer data actually leaks from a small business website, and an afternoon of fixes.
Should You Vibe-Code Your Own MVP? An Honest Answer
We get the rescue calls, and we still think founders should often build the first version themselves. Here is when vibe-coding an MVP is the right move, when it stops being one, and what to do on day one.
Booking and Payment Integrations for Trades: Getting Paid Before You Leave the Job
The gap between finishing a job and getting paid is where trade businesses bleed cash. A practical look at the booking, quoting and payment stack that closes it, and when a custom layer earns its keep.
Common questions.
The things prospective clients, and the search engines answering on their behalf, ask us most.
Where is CodeDrips based?
CodeDrips is a software development studio based at 664 Collins Street, Docklands, Melbourne, Victoria 3008, Australia. We have worked with clients across Melbourne, throughout Australia, and remotely since 2018.
What does CodeDrips do?
CodeDrips builds custom software and platforms, mobile apps for iOS and Android, eCommerce and Shopify storefronts, and editorial-grade brand and marketing websites, end to end, from discovery through to launch and ongoing support.
Do you only work with Melbourne businesses?
No. Melbourne is our home base, but we work with clients across Australia and internationally. Most of our collaboration happens over video calls, shared repos and weekly demos, so location is rarely a constraint.
What technologies does CodeDrips work with?
Whatever suits the job, or whatever you have already built on. We have worked across most languages and frameworks since 2018, from web and mobile to eCommerce platforms and AI tools, so we fit your project rather than asking it to fit us.
I built my own app with an AI tool. Can you help?
Yes. Whether you built it with Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor or another AI tool, we can give you a second opinion, review it before launch, unblock you when you are stuck, or take it over if you would rather not run it yourself. We work in whatever you built it with, and help is priced to fit the budget, starting from $500.
How much does a software or web project cost?
Work starts from as little as $500 for smaller jobs like a fix, a review or a few hours of help. Complete builds depend on scope: business websites start around $6,000, Shopify stores around $8,000, custom web apps around $15,000 and mobile apps around $20,000; larger platforms run well beyond that. After a short discovery conversation we provide a fixed brief and a clear estimate, then work in two-week sprints with a demo every Friday so you always know where the budget is going.
How do I start a project with CodeDrips?
Email hello@codedrips.com with a few lines about what you are building, who it is for, and your rough timeline. We reply within one business day, in plain English.
§ 07 / Contact
Got something
to build?
Tell us what you're building, or what you've built and where you're stuck. We reply within one business day, in plain English.