Maram
The engineering team you can't hire yet.
Maram is a Swiss product-engineering studio. Two founders. We build software products with startup founders and run them in production — one partnership at a time.
Current partnership
Whatchlive, with Donkeylab.
Find a bar showing tonight's match — across Switzerland, in German, French, Italian, and English. Engineered by us; product owned by Donkeylab.
Open Whatchlive (opens in new tab)What we offer
Three ways we partner.
We embed with one startup at a time. Pick the shape that matches where you are.
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MVP
You have an idea.
We ship your first version end-to-end — code, infrastructure, launch.
Best for Pre-product founders, funding committed.
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Ship & operate
You have a prototype.
We harden, scale, observe — and run it in production with you.
Best for Teams with a working prototype that needs to become a product.
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Augment
You have a team.
We embed as senior peers where you need velocity — cloud, ML, embedded, frontend.
Best for Series-A teams adding a missing capability without a permanent hire.
How we work
Discover. Build. Operate.
Three phases, one startup at a time. We embed for the whole arc — not just the prototype.
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Discover
Two weeks together. We understand the product, the constraints, the team, and a realistic timeline. We deliver a brief that includes what we'd do differently — before any code.
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Build
Embed end-to-end. Product decisions are ours to question; code, infra, and ops are ours to write. Weekly demos and a shared backlog — no black box.
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Operate
We run it with you in production. On-call, observability, incident response. We hand over when there's a team in place to take it on — not before.
Capabilities
What we know. Where we've shipped.
Founders
Who you'd work with.
Testimonials
What founders say about us.
Real words from the people we ship with. Every quote links to the original post — no make-believe.
Maram is the engineering team we could not build ourselves yet. They shipped Whatchlive end-to-end and they run it with us — the kind of partner you want before you can hire your own.
Working with Maram feels less like hiring an agency and more like having two extra co-founders. Decisions get made over chat, not change orders — and when something breaks at 11pm, Rejo and William are already in the logs.
Ready to ship?
Two weeks to decide if we are the right partner. We reply within a working day.
Let's talk