Honest timelines.
We tell you what’s possible and when — even when it isn’t what you want to hear. No optimistic estimates we already know we’ll miss.
About Papercron
A small lab
with serious ambitions.
Papercron is a fully-remote software & AI lab. We build production-grade web, mobile, and AI products for founders and companies who care how things are made.
Why we started
We were tired of software made carelessly.
Papercron started in early 2026 with a simple frustration: ambitious teams kept handing serious problems to studios that treated them as ticket queues. The work shipped, but barely — and never with care.
We thought there was room for a different kind of lab. Small. Senior in mindset, if not yet in years. Fully remote. Honest about timelines. Obsessed with the parts of software most clients never see — the data layer, the eval suite, the way a system fails gracefully under load.
Today we're a tight team building web platforms, mobile apps, and applied-AI systems for clients across South Korea and Southeast Asia. No outsourcing. No layers. Just engineers and designers shipping work they're proud of, week after week.
What you can count on
Promises we keep. Every project, every client.
Transparent pricing.
One clear quote. No surprise invoices. If the scope changes, we discuss it with you before any work happens.
Direct communication.
You always speak to the people building your project — not a chain of account managers between you and the work.
Quality over speed.
We’d rather deliver one thing properly than three things hastily. Reviews, tests, and evals are non-negotiable.
We host and maintain it.
Our standard model is a managed product: we host the software, monitor it, and keep it running. You focus on your business. Source-code transfer is available as a separate option, priced and scoped on its own.
We stand behind it.
If we built it, we’re responsible for it. Bugs in our work are our problem to fix — not a line item on your next invoice.
Where we are
A lab in motion. In public.
Q1 2026
Papercron founded
A small remote team comes together with one idea: build software the way it should be built.
Mar 2026
First applied-AI project
Kicked off Missing-Person Detection — a real-time vision system pairing YOLOv8 with ArcFace and ByteTrack.
Q2 2026
Hiring first cohort
Opening roles for designers, data, marketing, finance, and people ops across South Korea & SE Asia.
Next
Web & mobile launches
First client web platforms and mobile apps shipping to production. More to share when the ink is dry.
The team
Small by choice. Senior in mindset.
Two co-founders today, working across South Korea and Southeast Asia. We're hiring our next teammates this quarter.
H
Hung Tran
Co-founder · Vietnam
M
Maksim
Co-founder · Uzbekistan
Want to be in this grid? We're hiring across design, data, marketing, finance, and people ops.
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