The studio
Made by hand at Dacha Town.
Dacha Town is a small, independent software studio. Mostly it's a kitchen table, a long afternoon, and the stubborn belief that some software should feel less like a product and more like a place.
We make things for private, emotionally specific spaces — the kind of corner of life that isn't meant to be broadcast, measured, or grown. We'd rather make one room feel truly lived-in than ship a hundred that feel optimized.
Our Dacha
Our Dacha is our flagship — a private app for exactly two people. Its home is a calm dashboard of little places: a rustic dacha you move through room by room, a town just beyond it, your moods and letters, a daily question, photos, gifts, little games, and a living matryoshka called Nested Us that grows with you. It all runs on a small warm-gold coin, the Lunari, that you earn together and spend on each other. There's no feed and no followers; the audience is exactly two people. A little place, just for us.
Open Our Dacha in your browser →
The app runs in the browser right now. Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play — for now, the badges open the live web app.
Craft over growth.
Most software is built to be used by as many people as possible, as often as possible. That's a fine goal for most software. It's the wrong goal for a place meant to hold something tender between two people.
So we build the other way. We keep the public surface deliberately narrow — small enough that we can know every part of it, and that nothing leaks out that shouldn't. We make things slowly, by hand, and we let them feel a little hand-painted and a little imperfect, the way a real home does. We measure success the way you'd measure a good evening: not in numbers, but in whether it felt warm.
We're not trying to get big. We're trying to get it right, and then to look after it.
What we believe
- A place, not a feed.
We make rooms you move through, not streams you scroll. Nothing here is ranked, recommended, or refreshed to keep you hooked.
- The audience is exactly two.
We design for the smallest possible room — the two of you — and never the crowd. If a feature only makes sense to an audience, it doesn't belong here.
- Made by hand, on purpose.
We'd rather something feel warm and lived-in than slick and optimized. The wobble, the wood grain, the little imperfections — that's the point, not a bug.
- A narrow public surface.
The less of this that faces outward, the safer what's inside. We keep the door small so we can keep it well.
- Private by design, not as a setting.
The backend is self-hosted and access-controlled, row by row. Even this website shows nothing real about anyone — every face, note, and photo in our marketing is invented.
- No growth tricks.
No ads, no engagement loops, no dark patterns, no streaks pressuring you to come back. If you forget about it for a week, that's allowed.
- Slow is a feature.
We ship when it's ready and tend it afterwards. We'd rather make one thing properly than many things hurriedly.
A small studio.
Dacha Town is independent and intentionally tiny. There's no growth team, no roadmap meeting, no investors to please — just the work, made carefully, for people we'll mostly never meet. That means we move at a human pace. It also means that when you write to us, a person reads it.
Come knock.
We like hearing from the people who live in the things we make. Tell us what's working, what's broken, or just what your dacha looks like.
Write to us: hello@dacha.town
For help with Our Dacha specifically, see Support.
Made by hand at Dacha Town — for two.