Diafonis is a small software studio in Arco, Trentino. We sit with your team, find where the day gets stuck, and build the tools your company actually needs.
Sound familiar?
That’s where we start.
A consumer tool, a platform for field-service companies, and a joke with a working smart contract. Different audiences, same habit: understand the people first.
A one-minute way through an overwhelming racket market.
Every season brings hundreds of padel rackets, described in specs most players can’t read. PadelFather asks ten plain questions and makes a recommendation you can actually act on.
From paper reports and WhatsApp threads to one system.
Field-service companies run on jobs, technicians and reports, usually held together by paper, phone calls and group chats. Quickoo puts the whole job, from request to signed PDF, in one place.
An NFT collection that promised to end the bear market.
In the summer of 2022, crypto was collapsing and everyone was very serious about it. This was the opposite: ten hand-drawn bears, each with a superpower, on a real smart contract.
Behind the joke: a Solidity contract, unit tests, IPFS metadata and a React mint site, built end to end.
Most companies don’t need more software. They need the right software, built around the habits and shortcuts that already make them good at what they do.
We spend time where the work happens: the office, the warehouse, the site. We ask a lot of questions, some of them naive on purpose.
It’s rarely where people expect. Usually it’s the copy-paste between two spreadsheets, the report written twice, or the approval waiting on one person.
Flows and screens first, tried out with the people who’ll use them, before anyone writes code.
Small releases and working software every week or two. You see progress, not status reports.
The real feedback starts once people use it. We stay, watch what happens, and keep refining.
Orders, jobs, stock and schedules in one place, matching how you work.
The copy-paste between systems, done by the systems.
Status, documents and orders, without a phone call.
The numbers you check every morning, already assembled.
Emails into tasks, voice notes into reports, documents into data.
From first sketch to paying customers.
Something real to test in weeks, before committing to more.
Diafonis works with a small number of companies at a time. Not as a supplier delivering a package, but closer to an external product team: one that knows your business, and stays.
Generic software asks your company to adapt to it. We’d rather do the adapting. That takes time together, which is why we keep the number of partners small.
You talk directly to the person designing and building your software. No account managers, no ticket queue.
An afternoon in your office or on the shop floor often replaces weeks of email. We come to you.
Something real to try every week or two. Changing your mind early is cheap. Changing it late is expensive.
The software follows your processes and your vocabulary. Nobody should have to relearn their job to use it.
Software is never finished. We plan for new needs, new people and new ideas, not just the launch.
Based in Arco, at the top of Lake Garda. Riva, Rovereto, Trento and Verona are an easy drive. Everywhere else, there’s video.
“I like walking into a business I know nothing about, asking far too many questions, and working out what software would make it run better.”
I’m Aaron, and I’m a generalist on purpose. In a given week I might be interviewing the people who’ll use a tool, sketching its screens, writing its code and arguing about its pricing. That range is the point. Most software problems are really people problems, workflow problems or business problems that happen to need software.
I care a lot about how things look, and even more about how they’re used. Software for a company of forty people should feel obvious on the first day, and better on the hundredth.
Moves between
Watching how people really work, not how the process document says they do.
Off the clockPhotography, psychology, and noticing how people make decisions. It turns out all three are useful at work.
Tell me how your company works. No brief, no sales pitch: a couple of lines about where the day gets stuck is enough. I’ll reply personally.
Or write directly to info@diafonis.com
