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A product studio, out of Medellín

We build the tools
we wished existed.

Zanacode isn't a portfolio and it isn't an agency. It's a small studio that keeps running into everyday problems — money, game night, finding a fourth for tennis — and keeps shipping products to fix them.

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10
years building mobile
5
independent products live
1
studio, Medellín, Colombia
Built and used daily by freelancers, gamers & tennis players across five live apps

Why we exist

Most software gets built for a market. Ours gets built for a problem we're already living.

Zanacode began as a mobile studio, shipping other people's ideas — and learning, brief by brief, how software actually gets made. Somewhere along the way the studio started keeping its own list of problems worth solving. Now every product starts the same way: someone on the team gets frustrated by something in daily life, sketches a fix, and spends the next stretch of months making it real. We're not chasing one big product. We're building an ecosystem of small, obsessively-made ones.

The ecosystem

One studio. Three very different problems worth solving.

Product 01 · FinanceNovac

Financial clarity for people running more than one financial life at once.

Read the storyProduct 02 · GamesApateon

Board games, brought into a modern, portable, playful digital experience.

Read the storyProduct 03 · Community & SportAcemate

A social platform that makes finding your next tennis match effortless.

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Also moving through the studio

Target DirectionalLive

Offline-first logging for oil & gas crews — record readings with no signal, sync when it returns.

NoFuiYoLive

Household chores, settled: assign tasks, prove they're done, end the “it wasn't me” argument.

DeditosLive

A pass-the-phone party game — everyone puts a finger down, the screen picks.

Yaiki AccesoriosLive

A mobile-first commerce build for a Medellín handmade accessories brand.

How we got here

From client work to a studio that builds its own bets.

  1. Chapter 01

    The agency years

    Zanacode starts as a mobile app studio in Medellín — concept to launch, for other people's ideas. Good training. Not the point.

  2. Chapter 02

    The itch

    Running several client projects, personal finances, investments and a handful of credit cards at once, in the same season, becomes its own problem. No spreadsheet survives it.

  3. Chapter 03

    Novac ships

    The studio's first product for itself: a finance app built to make sense of several financial lives running at the same time. Live on iOS and Android.

  4. Chapter 04

    Apateon and Acemate follow

    A social deduction party game for game night, and a platform for finding your next tennis match. Two different itches, the same instinct: notice a friction, go build the fix.

  5. Chapter 05

    Now

    Five products live, a handful of smaller ideas in the lab, and a studio that keeps its list of everyday problems close at hand.

Product 01 · Finance

Novac: money, without the spreadsheet anxiety.

Novac started as a personal problem. Spending, subscriptions, a handful of credit cards and enough due dates to lose track of — all at once, in the same head. Budgeting apps felt built for accountants. Spreadsheets broke by the third card. So the studio built the tool it actually needed.

What shipped is deliberately private: everything lives on your device, with no account and no cloud. Log by category or by voice, paste a bank notification and let it parse itself, put recurring payments on a calendar, track several cards at once, and watch a savings goal fill up. On iPhone, Android and Apple Watch.

Who it's for
Anyone who wants clarity on their money without handing it to the cloud
Current state
Live on iOS & Android — offline-first, React Native
Where it's going
Investment tracking, alongside the debt and savings tools already there
App StoreGoogle Play
Novac — cash flow dashboard
Apateon — party lobby

Product 02 · Games

Apateon: board games that fit in your pocket.

Board games are one of the last genuinely social technologies — right up until you need six people, a table, and a rulebook in the same room at the same time. Apateon exists to keep the social part and lose the friction: a portable place to play the games that used to only happen at someone's kitchen table.

It starts, on purpose, with the party side of that ambition — pass-and-play for four to eight people, built for the ten minutes before dinner. Three modes so far: an obscure fact everyone sees except the impostor, a topic they have to guess without being caught, and a room of liars hunting one truth-teller.

Who it's for
Groups who love game night, wherever they are
Current state
Live on iOS & Android — pass-and-play, 4–8 players
Where it's going
Online multiplayer, so game night no longer needs everyone in the same room
App StoreGoogle Play

Product 03 · Community & Sport

Acemate: never short a fourth for tennis again.

Tennis is a deeply social sport that quietly depends on logistics: an open court, a partner at your level, a time that works for both of you. Acemate exists to remove the coordination tax so the actual game — the movement, the rally, the rivalry — can start sooner.

Built for players who want more court time and better matches: find people nearby, book a court, connect with coaches, and grow a local tennis community instead of a group chat full of maybes.

Who it's for
Recreational-to-competitive players & local coaches
Current state
Live on Android — iOS in progress
Where it's going
iOS launch, then tournaments and skill-based matching
Google PlayiOS — coming soon
Acemate — nearby matches

How we build

Four things every product goes through.

01

Curiosity

Every product starts as a question someone on the team couldn't stop asking.

02

Craftsmanship

Small teams, obsessed with the detail most companies would ship without.

03

Long-term thinking

We ship an MVP to learn fast, then commit to products for years, not quarters.

04

User-centered design

If the person who inspired the product wouldn't use it daily, it isn't finished.

Founder

“Ten years building mobile apps taught me the ideas worth having are usually the ones already bothering you. Zanacode is how I — and everyone on the team — get to chase those.”

Wilson Ospina

Founder, Zanacode

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What's next

The roadmap, honestly.

Near-term

Novac's investment tracking. Apateon's online multiplayer. Acemate on iOS.

Mid-term

Tournaments and skill-based matching for Acemate, and more ways to play in Apateon.

Long-term

A small constellation of products people build part of their week around — not one app trying to be everything.

Get in touch

Building something with us?

We talk to investors and partners who see the same thing we do: a studio that ships small, well-made products, one real problem at a time.

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Carrera 74#53-118, 417, Medellín, Antioquía 050036, CO