We build backends and software products.

An engineering studio in Split, Croatia. We help software teams build backends, fix slow systems, and ship product features.

Services

We find what's holding things up.

We join your team and take a concrete change through to production.

All services
PLAYGRND Our own product

For the people who play, run and follow football.

PLAYGRND is a platform for local football. It brings together league and tournament management, organising games, player profiles and stats, and a community that follows teams, discusses matches and shares the game.

A featured-player query went from about 77 ms to 35 ms.

An individual query measurement from the case study.

PLAYGRND: Serie B2 match results, competitions, and player statistics.
Memoato Personal memory
Memoato landing page showing a saved personal note and the details remembered from it

Personal memory you can verify.

Memoato keeps your original notes and shows the source behind a retrieved fact. It separates reviewed facts from assumptions, records corrections and allows separate access to logging and search.

NK Prugovo Pro bono for the community
NK Prugovo website homepage with the club crest and football imagery

A new website for a club built around its community.

We designed and built NK Prugovo's website pro bono, giving the club one clear place for its story, youth academy, media coverage, partners, and contact information.

Recommendations

Proof from teams we have built with.

Povio, ReneVerse, and Tilt are HILLS Lab work. The other recommendations show the wider engineering track record behind HILLS Lab.

Wider engineering track record

Ericsson Nikola Tesla Founder track record
Curious, proactive, and willing to take responsibility beyond his role early in his career.
Ivica Vidovic Senior Software Engineering Manager, Head of UDM Operations at Ericsson Nikola Tesla; currently board member at Abysalto
Profico Founder track record
Someone we could truly rely on, not afraid to take responsibility and push new initiatives forward.
Rimac Automobili Founder track record
An exceptionally capable engineer whose code was built to last in a highly challenging hypercar telemetry and OTA domain.
Denis Grahovac Engineering Manager at Rimac then; now Director of Software Engineering at Toming

Engagement model

Start with one concrete task.

01

First conversation

We review the product, existing system and problem to solve.

02

Agreed scope

We agree on what changes, how to check the result and who makes the decisions.

03

Delivery

We implement and test the change with real data or users.

04

Release and handover

We release the verified change and hand over the code, instructions and next steps.

For local software teams

We work with your existing team on one concrete problem, with direct access to the engineer doing the work.

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Notes

Working notes from practice.

Notes on backends, product development, production systems and using AI tools safely.

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