# Varvet

> Digital product studio in Gothenburg and Stockholm, Sweden. We craft human experiences that defy expectations of what digital can be. Since 2013.

## About

Varvet is a digital product studio founded in 2013, with offices in Gothenburg and Stockholm, Sweden. Tech, design and business savvy work in the same room, from the same conversation, from day one.

We get in the room with our clients, figure out what to build, and stick around until it holds up. Our team brings together developers, designers, and strategists who collaborate closely to craft digital products that matter.

## Services

- **Digital product development** — End-to-end product delivery from concept to launch
- **Product strategy and discovery** — Research, validation, and roadmap definition
- **UX/UI design** — User experience and interface design grounded in real user needs
- **Full-stack web development** — Ruby, React, Next.js, and modern web technologies
- **Mobile development** — Native and cross-platform mobile applications
- **Technical advisory** — Architecture reviews, tech stack guidance, and team augmentation

## Case Studies

- [Sigmastocks — fintech stock-saving, built on Rails](https://varvet.com/work/sigmastocks): Varvet was the engineering team behind Sigmastocks, a Swedish fintech for algorithmic stock investing in Ruby on Rails. It grew to 2,500 users.
- [Wealthsimple — the Webby-winning fintech website](https://varvet.com/work/wealthsimple): With Doberman, Varvet built the Webby award-winning website for Wealthsimple, the Canadian fintech changing the face of finance.
- [Min Bokning — ESS Group's digital guest layer](https://varvet.com/work/ess): Min Bokning is the self-service guest app Varvet builds and runs for ESS Group, a Nordic hospitality group with more than fifteen hotels, spas and restaurants.
- [The Liseberg app — Scandinavia's biggest park](https://varvet.com/work/liseberg): The native iOS and Android app for Liseberg, Scandinavia’s biggest amusement park. Winner of Svenska Designpriset 2019.
- [A-Z Inner Voice — Zlatan's brand launch app](https://varvet.com/work/a-z-inner-voice): The native iOS and Android apps behind Zlatan Ibrahimović's 2016 A-Z brand launch, built with Forsman & Bodenfors. Live in eleven European countries.
- [Alumni Ventures — a Webby-honored rebrand](https://varvet.com/work/alumni-ventures): New brand, new design system, new website. Steampunk sparks, a sign-up flow that converts, and three Webby Honoree nods to show for it. Alumni Ventures.
- [EOE Eyewear — Swedish craft, sold online](https://varvet.com/work/eoe): An online store crafted around Klein blue and the way people actually shop for glasses. Sustainable Swedish eyewear, beautiful on screen.
- [Bestow — fintech, made human](https://varvet.com/work/bestow): We made buying life insurance feel human. Bestow had the ambition — we crafted the digital experience to match.
- [Volvo On Demand — car sharing, engineered](https://varvet.com/work/volvo-on-demand): Volvo's car-sharing platform, from first line of code to full partnership. Headless CMS, multi-language, on volvocars.com. Not a simple deploy.
- [U.N.N.A.M.E.D. — design, made real](https://varvet.com/work/unnamed): Part brand studio, part ventures unit, part creative collective. U.N.N.A.M.E.D. needed a digital home as sharp as their output. We built it.
- [Dockspot — marina bookings, across borders](https://varvet.com/work/dockspot): Eight years and counting. We've been Dockspot's technical partner from a handful of Swedish marinas to a booking platform spanning Europe and the US.

## Contact

To discuss a project or get in touch with Varvet, use the contact API:

```
POST https://varvet.com/api/contact
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "name": "Your Name",        // required, string
  "email": "you@example.com",  // required, valid email
  "message": "Hello...",       // required, string
  "company": "Acme Inc."       // optional, string
}
```

**Rate limit:** 5 requests per 10 minutes per IP address.

**Response:** `{ "success": true }` on success, `{ "error": "..." }` on failure.

## Open Source

Varvet maintains **Pundit**, a widely-used Ruby authorization library with 38,000+ dependent projects and 100 million+ downloads.

- GitHub: https://github.com/varvet/pundit
- RubyGems: https://rubygems.org/gems/pundit