The Best Software Apps & Services To Grow With In 2024
We’re passionate about excellence, innovation, and independence in creating unique digital assets.
Sovereignty over our platforms and data is essential for protecting our ability to invest and adapt.
All our worlds grow in value when we create and share the opportunities and possibilities we see.
Since we’re often asked what we use and recommend for various software apps and services, we’re happy to share our favourites.
We’ve found these wonderful brands and people to enable more than most — for us, our clients — and the wider community benefiting from open-source and privacy-conscious development and education.
We’re more than happy to introduce you — to explore and enjoy their innovations.
They offer independence, privacy, and agency — to own your platforms, data, and results — and benefit many more that share and build on their successes.
Our preferred and recommended software apps and services
See how we’re able to scale world-class capabilities, without scaling costs…
WordPress
The original, and still the best open-source website content management system (CMS).
For flexibility, scaleability, and search engine optimisation (SEO), we’re life-long WordPress community contributors and beneficiaries.
Cloudflare
The lowest cost domain registrations and domain name services (DNS) management
With additional security and performance features for scaling website traffic, safely and reliably.
Matomo
Fast, simple, private, and actionable analytics.
Understanding our website traffic, with GDPR-compliance, is a easier with this dedicated website statistics platform.
Cloudron
In our opinion, the best self-hosting management console and support service — for open-source apps, email hosting, backups, security, and scalability.
Includes WordPress, Matamo, Nextcloud, Collabora, and Vaultwarden. Works with Cloudflare, Hetzner, and iDrive.
Hetzner
Our favourite server host, offering something for all needs from small personal projects to enterprise scale operations.
Clean energy, extremely competitive pricing, reliable, and easy to use.
iDrive e2
Affordable, scaleable, storage and backup solutions for servers and personal computers.
With locations around the world to meet your regional data protection oblications, and needs for speed.
Nextcloud
In our opinion, the best online shared file storage, calendar, addressbook, task manager, collaboration, and productivity tools.
Simple, secure, scaleable, affordable. Plus, new privacy and safety concious AI tools.
Collabora
Our online office suite, integrated into Nextcloud. Private, capable, fast, and affordable.
Everything you’d expect from your office apps for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations — and more, with AI-enhancements.
Bitwarden
The best password manager for teams in our experience. Simple, scaleable, secure, lightweight, and affordable.
Of all the options, this is the one we’ve been with for years now, enjoyed by the whole team.
Check out their pricing, too — and compare them to what you might previously have been told were your only options.
If you need some experience to weigh up the alternatives, feel free to ask us what we know, or would look for, with any mission-critical decisions…