The Tiny Manifesto
Software got heavy. Every tool wants to be a platform. Every platform wants your whole day. We think most people just want one small thing done well — and then to get on with their lives.
TinyStudio is a family of tools built on that belief. Here's what we hold to. It's both how we decide what to build, and why we built these in the first place.
One job, done well.
Each tool does exactly one thing. If it starts doing two, it should be two tools. The focus is the feature.
The free tier is complete, not crippled.
Free isn't a trap or a teaser. It does the whole job. You pay to remove our badge, add your own domain, and scale up — never to unlock the basics.
Restraint is the product.
We leave things out on purpose. The hard part isn't adding features — it's saying no to almost all of them. Most requests don't ship. That's the point.
You shouldn't need a manual.
If you can't do the one job, cold, in under a minute, we failed — not you. No onboarding tours, no 200-page docs, no settings you don't understand.
Your data is yours.
No cookies where we can avoid them. No selling, no surveillance, no quietly hoarding what we don't need. POPIA-friendly by default, not as an upsell.
Built for South Africa first.
Priced in rands. Local payments. Local compliance. We're not an afterthought port of a US tool — we started here.
Done means done.
A tool is finished when it does its job simply and reliably. We'd rather ship one thing that's truly complete than ten that are half-built.
The biggest threat to a tiny tool isn't competition — it's the temptation to make it bigger. We'd rather stay small and keep your trust.
— TinyStudio