What this studio is
Design degrades on the way to production, and it degrades at one place: the handoff. Someone designs a system, writes it up, and hands it to someone who has to interpret it under a deadline. Every interpretation is a small loss, and six months later the thing running in production is a cousin of the thing that was designed.
So there is no handoff here. The same person draws the token and writes the component that reads it. That is the whole idea, and everything the studio refuses to do follows from protecting it.
Every build ships conformant to WCAG 2.1 AA. It isn’t an upgrade and it isn’t a line item.
What the studio won't do
- No moodboards
- Nobody buys six weeks of taste-signalling before anything is built
- No handoff
- Nothing is designed here and approximated in code somewhere else
- No first retainer
- Retainers are sold after a project, never as the way in
- No agency layer
- No account manager, no junior building what a senior sold
The bench
Collaborators the studio has built with before, brought in per engagement and named before they start. Not staff, and not a layer between you and the person doing the work.
They come in when a project needs a surface outside the core: a second platform, an AI component, a second pair of hands against a date. They are paid per engagement, and you know who is on your project before they touch it.
Always
Charan Manikanta Nalla
Design engineering
Designs the system and writes the code that ships it. On every project, start to finish.
On demand
Hemanth Srinivas
Full stack
Multi-platform app developer. Ships production mobile at an edtech company in Bengaluru.
Naveen Poliasetty
AI
AI engineer.
Harsha Vardhan B.
Full stack
Master's at IIT Bhubaneswar.
Vidhan Reddy A.
Full stack
Web developer.
If the studio goes quiet
The honest risk of hiring one person is that the person stops. Most of the answer is already true of how the work runs, so it costs nothing to write it down and check it.
Swipe sideways to see all of it.
The part that is a real commitment is the last two rows. Someone on the bench has repo access and your contact details before your project starts, and knows it exists. You have never paid for more than you have received, and your code has been in your repository since the first day.
- Your code
- In your repository from day one, pushed daily
- Documentation
- An architecture doc and a README with every milestone, written so anyone can pick it up in a day
- Payment
- 40 / 40 / 20 against milestones: if work stops at 60%, you have paid 60%
- IP
- Assigned to you on final payment, in writing
- Backup
- One named person on the bench holds repo access and your details
- Trigger
- No reply for five business days, and they contact you
Who's behind this
Charan Manikanta Nalla designs in Adobe Creative Cloud and ships production code, and has done both halves of that job for long enough to stop pretending they are two jobs.
What that looks like is on this site: a drop-commerce storefront where the scarcity rule is enforced in the data rather than the copy, an AI notetaker rebuilt around what happens to the knowledge after the meeting, and the identity, billing and scheduling layer that seven of the studio’s own products run on, including the checkout you would buy an audit through. One of them takes money from strangers. The rest are the studio’s own, and they say so.
Pixelform trades under devsforfun Studio (OPC) Private Limited.
Operator
- Name
- Charan Manikanta Nalla
- Designs in
- Adobe Creative Cloud; Figma on request
- Entity
- devsforfun Studio (OPC) Private Limited
- Bench
- Four named collaborators, booked per engagement