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Bespoke software
Systems designed around your operation rather than bent to fit a template — architecture, build, and handover documentation.
- Requirements & architecture
- Full-stack development
- Data & integrations
SWANDEX, Switzerland - Technology Network
Engineering that keeps its promises.
Swandex is a technology network serving international private clients and businesses — bespoke development, mobile applications for iOS and Android, and the long-term maintenance that keeps them running.
New article A New Art: The Minute Repeater That Writes →Platforms
iOS, Android, web, backend, embedded
Disciplines
Software, electronics, robotics, IP
Engagement
Build, then maintain for the long run
01 — Who we are
A reliable network, a long horizon.
Swandex was founded on a simple commitment: build things worth keeping. Software, mobile applications, and — increasingly — the electronics and mechanisms underneath them. We take on a deliberately limited number of engagements so that each one gets senior attention from first consultation to long-term care.
We start by examining your goals — the audience, the constraints, the timeframe, the style — and set out the options honestly, including the ones that cost you less. What follows is a system designed around your objectives rather than around our convenience.
Swandex operates as a network rather than a single firm. Fees go directly to the professional members who do the work — individuals and the institutions behind them — while Swandex curates the standards that run across every engagement. The app and the robotic bed below are the two cases currently moving through that cycle, one in production and one in development, with more to follow.
Innovation, reliability and excellence in every layer of delivery — from the first sketch, whether of an architecture or a mechanism, to the tenth year of maintenance.
02 — Services
Five disciplines, one network.
Software, mobile, embedded electronics and the technology management around them. Nothing is handed to a subcontractor you never meet.
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Mobile applications
Native-quality apps for Android and iOS: visually considered, robust under load, and built to scale as your audience grows.
- iOS & Android
- Store submission & review
- New builds or rescue work
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IT maintenance
Proactive care for what already runs: scheduled updates, security hardening and performance optimisation.
- Update & patch cycles
- Security review
- Performance tuning
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Robotics & electronics
Mechatronic products from concept to working prototype: mechanism, control boards, motor drives, sensing and embedded firmware.
- Mechanism & actuation
- Control electronics & firmware
- Prototype to pre-series
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Management of Technology
The layer above the build: technology choices, patent strategy, suppliers, cost per unit and the route to industrialisation.
- Patent & IP strategy
- Technology scouting
- Industrialisation roadmap
We build our own hardware as well as our clients' software — which is why maintenance is never an afterthought here. Updates, security hardening and performance work run on a schedule.
Discuss a project →03 — Method
How an engagement runs.
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Consultation
We map your objectives, audience and operational constraints before a single line is written.
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Options on the table
Two or three routes, each with its cost, its timeframe and its trade-offs stated plainly.
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Iterative build
Short cycles with frequent demos. Your feedback is documented and answered in the next iteration.
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Quality gates
Unit, integration and acceptance testing, automated checks and code review before anything ships.
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Long-term care
Scheduled maintenance, monitoring and a contact who still remembers why the system is built that way.
04 — Management of Technology
From an idea to a patent to a working machine.
Management of Technology is the discipline of carrying an invention across every boundary it has to cross: the physics, the patent, the electronics, the firmware, the supplier, the certification, the cost per unit. We practise it on our own product before we offer it to anyone else.
Our current programme is a robotic bed: a sleep surface carried by an array of independently actuated segments, each driven by its own motor and sensed in real time, so the support adapts continuously to posture and load instead of holding one fixed shape. The mechanical architecture is filed as a patent; the control electronics, motor drivers, sensing and embedded software are ours end to end.
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Patent
The mechanical architecture is protected — drawn, claimed and filed, with the prior art searched before a franc was spent on tooling.
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Electronics
Custom control boards: motor drives, position and load sensing, power management, and the safety logic that has to hold when software fails.
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Embedded software
Real-time firmware coordinating the actuator array, plus the companion application that configures and monitors it.
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Industrialisation
Supplier selection, cost per unit, certification path and the documentation a manufacturer actually needs.
If you are taking a physical product from concept to prototype, we can run the same programme for you — mechanism, electronics, firmware, IP and the plan to industrialise it.
Talk about your product →
05 — Productivity app
Carillon Repetition Minute · iPhone · iPad · Android
The minute repeater: Time without checking the time
Get the minute repeater with a $300K sound and keep the watch you wear. No fragile case. No imposed dress code. Just the chime.
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Chimes the hours, quarters and minutes on demand, recorded from a real carillon petite sonnerie.
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Follows your phone's own volume, silent mode and Do Not Disturb — a schedule and a night window decide which hours strike.
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A classic carillon dial to watch, on the phone already in your pocket — no case to protect, nothing to compromise.
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An optional log and task list, kept only on your phone — one tap from the chime notification, nothing ever leaves the device.
DEMO APP
Try it here, then get it on your phone
Free to use, no expiry · optional $6.99 unlock, once · no subscription
06 — Articles
Notes on time, attention and the written record.
The thinking behind the app's quarter-hour logbook, first published on X — each article with its full references and a PDF.
· 6 min read
A New Art: The Minute Repeater That Writes
Two crafts that shaped watchmaking, the watch that strikes and the automaton that writes, finally meet in one gesture.
· 6 min read
Fifteen Minutes, One Line
It isn't the chime that builds the habit. It's what one tap opens. The previous article, Before They Changed the World, They Wrote It Down, followed the notebooks of people who changed the world.…
· 7 min read
Hyperfocus Is a Gift. A Logbook Gives It Direction.
Deep concentration can produce extraordinary work and quietly erase the day around it. A practical method, one spoken sentence per quarter-hour, keeps both.
07 — Questions
How we work, in detail.
How do you ensure the quality of what you deliver? +
Quality assurance is built into the schedule, not bolted on at the end: unit, integration and user-acceptance testing, automated test tooling to catch regressions early, and regular code review to keep the codebase consistent. We follow established industry practice so that the software you receive is robust, reliable and ready to scale.
How will I know where the project stands? +
You get regular updates through whichever channel suits you — email, video call, or a shared project board such as Jira or Trello. Weekly or bi-weekly status meetings cover progress, concerns and adjustments, and you can see milestones, timelines and deliverables at any time without asking.
What happens to my feedback during development? +
Feedback drives the work. We develop iteratively, with frequent review sessions and working demos, so you can react to something real rather than a specification. Every comment is documented and addressed in a following iteration, which keeps the finished product aligned with what you actually wanted.
Can you work with my time zone? +
Yes — we work with clients across Europe, the Americas and Asia. Meeting slots are arranged around your working hours, day-to-day collaboration happens asynchronously by email and chat, and a dedicated project manager acts as a single point of contact so questions never wait for the right person to wake up.
08 — Contact
Tell us what you want to build.
Message us on X with a few words about your project, your timeframe, and what success looks like. You will speak to someone who will actually work on it.