We are a team of seven people in Sants-Montjuïc, Barcelona. We make mobile apps. That is basically it.
The studio started in 2019 when two of us got tired of working at agencies that charged clients enormous amounts and then outsourced the actual work. We figured we could skip the middle part and just build good apps directly.
Six years later, we have shipped 45 apps across iOS, Android, and cross-platform. Some of them are genuinely successful — millions of downloads, great ratings, actual revenue. Others were MVPs that helped founders figure out what to build next. A few did not work out at all, and that is fine too. Not every app idea is a winner.
We are based in Barcelona because it is a great city to live in and because there is a strong tech scene here without the absurd costs of London or San Francisco. Our office is a five-minute walk from Plaça d'Espanya, which is nice when you need a coffee break with a view of Montjuïc.
How we ended up here
Both founders came from big agencies — the kind that pitch with 40-slide decks and then hand your project to junior developers you never meet. We did not like that model. Clients deserve to know who is writing their code. So we started Nice Develop with a simple rule: the people in the meeting are the people building the app.
The team
Seven of us. Two iOS developers, two Android developers, one full-stack (backend and cross-platform), one designer, and one person who handles everything else — project management, client communication, invoicing, making sure the office has coffee. We hire slowly and only when we actually need someone.
Why Barcelona
Good weather, good food, reasonable costs compared to other European tech hubs, and a strong pool of engineers coming out of UPC and UPF. Also, honestly, it is just a great place to live. Happy developers write better code — that is not a cliché, it is observable.
Be honest about scope.
We would rather talk you out of features you do not need than bill you for them. Smaller scope means faster shipping and less risk.
Ship weekly.
You get a testable build every Friday. No surprises at the end of a three-month project. If something is wrong, we catch it early.
Write it once, write it right.
Quick hacks compound into expensive problems. We spend time on architecture because debugging bad code is worse than writing good code.