Attics do not fill up with things that broke. They fill up with things that worked — that still work, only the work outgrew them. Businesses have them too.
The spreadsheet one person understands.
The WhatsApp group that dispatches the drivers.
The plumber whose phone rings on a four-year-old recommendation.
None of it is broken. That is exactly why replacing it feels like a risk.
Devatic is dev and attic: we build what comes after the thing that used to be enough.
Two friends with careers in the UK decided to work together. Alexandros as a business analyst at an investment firm; Savvas as a principal engineer.
One spent years examining why businesses stall. The other, building the systems that stop them stalling.
No client work at the start. Most software houses sell expertise they learned on someone else's budget.
We wanted to know what it costs to launch a product, find its first users, and still be answering support mail eighteen months later — before charging anyone for that knowledge.
It nearly didn't survive the decision. The first customers came slower than expected, and there was a month when both of us worked out how much longer our savings would hold.
What kept the company open was not belief in the idea. It was two products that real businesses were using, and support mail that had to be answered the next morning.
The decision held. We do not recommend it to anyone — but we know what it costs now, and that is the only expertise we have to sell.
We are two people. We take one build at a time.
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