SignCoders' venture-building studio

Accessible products,
built by deaf founders.

Thrive Studio is SignCoders' venture-building studio. We build six products on one shared team, technology, and go-to-market engine – from a smart-cube app to live captioning to a sign-language avatar. Not every one is an accessibility product, but all are built by the same deaf-led team and engine, and for us accessibility is never a feature bolted on afterward.

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Now available CubeMate – smart-cube app for iOS and Android

Six products, one shared engine
6 years of deaf leadership
Budapest

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What this studio is

We don't ship projects. We launch products on one shared engine, and we stay with them.

Across 6 years of community and institutional work, SignCoders kept finding the same thing: a lack of accessibility isn't a small bug, it's a product decision. Thrive Studio exists to make that decision upfront – with a shared team, technology, and go-to-market engine.

Accessibility is the starting point

We don't bolt on captions and contrast at the end. Accessibility is in the product's first draft, so it never costs extra money or a separate sprint.
Deaf-led, with 6 years of institutional trust

The studio is led by deaf professionals. We don't know the problem from user research – we know it from 6 years of community and institutional work we run into ourselves, every day.
One shared engine, not standalone projects

We don't deliver one-off projects. One shared team, technology base, and partner network carries all six products forward, and we set the ones that work up to stand on their own.
Decision gates

No product gets an automatic green light. Every phase has an exit point: only proven user and paying signal carries a product through to the next gate.

The portfolio

Six products, one shared engine.

Most start from the same question: where does someone who can't hear lose time, safety, or information? CubeMate is already in the stores, MeetCaption proves itself next – after that, the portfolio moves forward gate by gate, based on the evidence.

LiveConsumer app · Smart cubes

CubeMate

A companion app for Bluetooth smart cubes: live 3D mirror, solver, WCA timer and duels – on iOS and Android.

CubeMate mirrors the smart cube in your hands on screen and builds everything a cuber needs around it: a solver, a WCA timer with 3D replay, beginner guides and live duels.

Available on the App Store and Google Play
Live 1v1 duels and a daily challenge
13 languages, for beginner and advanced cubers

Works with Xiaomi, GAN, Giiker, MoYu, QiYi and GoCube cubes. The guides can be used without a smart cube.

cubemate.thrive-studio.io

BetaLive AI captioning

MeetCaption

Real-time AI captioning for online and hybrid meetings.

A meeting shouldn't stop just so someone can catch up. MeetCaption turns speech into readable text instantly, built together with deaf users from day one, and the first paying pilots launch inside SignCoders' existing network of institutional partners.

Designed with the community, alongside deaf experts
First paying B2B pilots: Q2 2027
B2B and B2C SaaS model

PrototypeTeam & task management

Tasko+Nekso

A team and task management SaaS platform, integrated with MeetCaption.

Decisions recorded in writing
MeetCaption integration
Cross-sold to pilot customers

PrototypeRoad safety

WayWarn

Real-time emergency-vehicle proximity and direction alerts for every driver.

Real-time emergency-vehicle detection
Visual direction alerts while driving

DiscoveryHabit building

Nudgely

Visual reminders and task tracking that don't rely on sound.

Sound-free feedback
Daily and weekly rhythms

DiscoverySign language rendering

Sign Language Avatar

An avatar system built for Hungarian Sign Language and validated at home first, designed to later sell into European and global markets.

Reviewed and controlled by deaf experts
Domestic validation, international roadmap

How we work

Five decision gates protect focus and capital.

The order isn't decoration: every gate has an exit point. A product only moves forward on proven user and paying signal – and if it doesn't get through a gate, we count that as a result too.

01
Problem

A real, urgent barrier the affected community flags, or one we run into ourselves at our institutional partners. We write down who it affects and what it costs them.
02
MVP

A usable minimum version with a clear value proposition and measurable use. If we can't show it within a few weeks, the question isn't sharp enough yet.
03
Paying pilot

Real customers pay for use. Willingness to buy, value to the decision-maker, and the procurement path decide whether the product moves forward.
04
Scale

Repeatable sales, a standard package – and the shared team, technology, and go-to-market engine that does the work again for every one of the six products.
05
Spin-out

The proven product gets its own team, customer contracts, and funding plan. The studio stays behind it, but no longer carries it.

The team

There are five of us, and we all build.

A small core team with clear ownership. Nothing in the studio gets decided by guessing on our users' behalf.

Zoltán Antal Falkus

CEO, SignCoders & Head of Thrive Studio

Vision, strategic direction, and company leadership.
Erik Herczeg

Co-founder & Lead Engineer, SignCoders & CTO, Thrive Studio

Technology strategy, system architecture, and hands-on engineering.
dr. Antal Károlyi

Co-founder, SignCoders – Head of Business Development & Sales

Fundraising, business development, and partnerships.
Anna Kiss-Lábszki

Designer

UX/UI, design systems, and product identity.
Ákos Bercel Kecskés

Software Engineer

Software development and technical delivery.