The Front Page · Brand Development

Do You Want a Brand People Remember?

Most businesses run on a rushed name, a borrowed logo, and a website nobody loves. Bravely Studios builds the whole thing properly: the idea, the name, the design, and where it lives. The first conversation is free.

From the Studio Desk in Kansas The Lead Story

Business owners rarely get a fair shot at branding. Agencies talk in decks and retainers. Template shops hand you the same site as everyone else. The parts that matter most, the idea, the name, the look, the place it all lives, get rushed or skipped entirely.

Bravely Studios works differently because it has to. This is a family studio in Kansas that designs, builds, ships, and supports nine production apps of its own, on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and the web. We run our own products with our own money. Client work gets the same treatment as the software with our name on it.

The flagship service is called Brands by Bravely, and it starts with a free consultation. Not a pitch. A working conversation about your business, with the people who would actually do the work.

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No pitch deck. No obligation. A real conversation.

The story continues in the Services Report, Section A

Jeff Schiesser, co-founder of Bravely Studios, in sunglasses and a running vest, giving a thumbs up. — Jeff Schiesser, co-founder. A tech executive turned indie app developer, photographed the way a family studio photographs everything: on a phone, mid-stride. Photograph: The Studio

Nine production apps, live today
Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and the web
Designed, built, shipped, and supported in-house
Family-run in Kansas

Section A

The Services Report

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What Bravely Studios builds for clients, and how an engagement starts. (Continued from the front page.)

The Flagship · Brands by Bravely

The Whole Brand, Under One Roof

Katy Schiesser, co-founder of Bravely Studios, in a teal blazer with her arms crossed. — Katy Schiesser, co-founder. The portrait is a phone photo. The standards are not casual. Photograph: The Studio

A brand is not a logo file. It is the idea underneath, the name that carries it, the design that makes it recognizable, and the place it lives: your site, your storefront, your screens, wherever your customers already are.

Brands by Bravely takes a business through all four, in plain language, with decisions made on purpose. You work directly with the studio, and what you get back is a brand you can actually run: named, designed, and living where it should.

It starts with a free consultation. Bring the business you have, or the one you are planning. If we are not the right fit, you will still leave with a clearer picture of what your brand should be.

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Wanted

Business owners with a real product and no brand to match. The consultation is free and the conversation is real. Apply within.

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Also in Service · Websites

Websites, Built and Then Looked After

A business website should load fast, read clearly, and have a person responsible for it after launch day. The studio builds sites the way it builds its own products, then keeps caring for them. When something needs changing, you know exactly who to ask.

Read about Websites at bravely.dev/websites

The same team and pipeline that ships the apps builds client work.

How the studio works

Section B

The Shipping News

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Nine production apps the studio designs, builds, ships, and supports itself. They are not what is for sale on this page. They are the proof.

Scry

bravely.dev/scry

Remote desktop, anywhere

Mac · Win · Linux · Web · iOS · Android

SayCopyPaste

bravely.dev/saycopypaste

Voice to clipboard, one key

Mac · Win · Linux · Web · iOS · Android

PrintScreen.ly

bravely.dev/printscreenly

Screenshots & recordings

Mac · Win · Linux · Web · iOS · Android

Diskaroo

bravely.dev/diskaroo

Treemap disk visualizer

Mac · Win · Linux

Todoing.ly

bravely.dev/todoingly

Tasks, synced everywhere

Mac · Win · Linux · Web · iOS · Android

ASAPDF

bravely.dev/asapdf

Sign, edit & send PDFs anywhere

Mac · Win · Linux · Web · iOS · Android

Terminal Tags

bravely.dev/terminaltags

Label your terminal windows

Mac · Win · Linux

Sticki.ly

bravely.dev/stickily

One sticky note, everywhere

Mac · Win · Linux · Web · iOS · Android

Markdly

bravely.dev/markdly

Native markdown editor

Mac · Win · Linux · iOS · Android

See all nine apps at bravely.dev

Section C

The Family Business

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Who you are actually hiring.

Jeff and Katy Schiesser, co-founders of Bravely Studios, in a casual selfie together. — Jeff and Katy Schiesser, co-founders. The staff photo is a selfie, which tells you most of what you need to know about the org chart. Photograph: The Family

The Story So Far

A Studio the Size of a Family

Kansas. Jeff Schiesser is a tech executive turned indie app developer. He and Katy Schiesser founded Bravely Studios and run it as exactly what it is: a family business, headquartered where the family lives.

The studio's first client was itself. Nine production apps came out of that arrangement, live today across Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and the web, every one designed, built, shipped, and supported in-house. We build for ourselves first, so we know what ships.

We build for ourselves first, so we know what ships.

The house rule

Client work runs through the same hands. The same team and pipeline that ships the apps builds the brands and the websites. There is no bench of subcontractors, no account manager standing between you and the people doing the work.

The studio also hosts the Build Horizons podcast. Recorded in-house, naturally. When we say we like building things, there is a paper trail.

Section D

Letters to the Editor

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Questions business owners actually ask, answered in plain type.

Who is this for?

Business owners who want the brand done properly. A new venture that needs a name and a look. An existing business that has outgrown its first logo. If you sell something real and want it presented well, you are who we had in mind.

What happens on the free consultation?

A real conversation about your business: the idea, the name, the design, and where it should all live. No slideshow, no pressure. You leave with a clearer picture of your brand whether or not we end up working together.

Do you only make apps?

The apps are ours, and they stay ours. For clients, the studio builds brands and websites. The nine apps are proof the pipeline works: design something, ship it, stand behind it.

Where are you?

Kansas. The studio works with businesses anywhere, and the work travels just fine.

Who does the work?

The same small team that ships the nine apps. The people you talk to on the consultation are the people who do the work. No handoffs, no mystery contractors.

Section E

The Classifieds

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Small ads, all of them true.

Wanted

Business owners with a real product and no brand to match. Free consultation, real conversation. Apply at bravely.dev/brands

For the Taking

Free tools at bravely.dev: a QR generator, a color picker, link pages. Free means free.

Heard

Build Horizons, the studio's own podcast. Recorded in-house, like everything else around here.

Notice

All nine Bravely apps are live today on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and the web. Catalog at bravely.dev.

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