Small, sharp software for problems worth solving.
Backyard SaaS picks up the everyday frictions of work and life — the parts that big SaaS won't touch — and ships focused tools that actually move the needle. Built in the backyard. Made for the real world.
We build software the way a neighbour builds something useful in their garage — close to the problem, free of fanfare, and ready to be borrowed by anyone who needs it.
One problem at a time
Every app under Backyard solves a single, sharp problem we've seen up close. No bloat, no feature drag — just the smallest thing that actually helps.
For real people, not personas
We design for the person stuck in the problem at 11pm on a Tuesday — not for the slide that needs to be sold next quarter.
Quiet by design
No dark patterns, no growth-hacking nudges, no manufactured urgency. Software that respects your attention is the only kind worth shipping.
Open to neighbours
As Backyard grows, we want other indie builders to plant their app under the same umbrella — and benefit from a shared audience that already trusts the brand.
A backyard you can rely on — a small constellation of apps, each modest on its own, that together cover the corners of everyday work and life nobody else is bothering with.
Today that's Relaunch, an empathy-first job-search helper for laid-off tech workers, and Trellis, a calm CRM for solopreneurs (in progress). Tomorrow it's whatever the people around us are stuck on next.
What we're building in the backyard
Relaunch
An empathy-first job-search helper for laid-off tech workers.
Drop in your résumé and Relaunch pulls fresh matches from across the web every morning, tailors a résumé and cover letter for each one, names two people in your network worth reaching out to, and writes the opening message for you. Built for the days after a layoff — when motivation is the rarest resource.
Trellis
A calm CRM for solopreneurs — contacts, tasks, and reminders that actually get followed up on.
Most solopreneurs lose deals not because they don't have leads, but because the follow-up slips. Trellis is a quiet, well-mannered system that remembers every contact, surfaces the right person to ping today, and turns one-line notes into next actions. No pipeline theatre. Just the next nudge, on time.
Hi, I'm Kaushik — the one tending this backyard.
I've spent my career around product and tech in Mumbai, watching brilliant people get stuck on small, fixable problems that nobody had the patience to solve well. Relaunch was the first one I couldn't walk past — and Backyard SaaS is the home I'm building so the next one, and the one after, have somewhere to land.
Have a problem worth solving?
If you've felt the friction yourself — or you're an indie builder looking for a shared roof — write to us. The backyard's big enough for more.