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what this studio is.

Pixelform exists because design degrades on the way to production, and it degrades at exactly one place: the handoff. Someone designs a system, writes it up, and hands it to someone who has to interpret it under a deadline. Every interpretation is a small loss, and six months later the thing running in production is a cousin of the thing that was designed.

So there is no handoff here. The same person draws the token and writes the component that reads it. That is the whole idea, and everything this studio refuses to do follows from protecting it.

Every build ships WCAG 2.1 AA conformant. It isn’t an upgrade and it isn’t a line item.

what I won’t do — 4 clauses

What I won't do

No moodboards
you are not buying six weeks of taste-signalling before anything is built
No handoff
nothing gets designed here and approximated in code somewhere else
No first retainer
retainers are sold after a project, never as the way in
No agency layer
no account manager, no junior building what a senior sold

the bench.

Collaborators I’ve built with before, brought in per engagement and named before they start. Not staff. You still talk to me.

They come in when a project needs a surface I don’t cover — a second platform, an AI component, a second pair of hands against a date. I pay them per engagement, and you know who is on your project before they touch it.

the operator, and four on the bench

Always

  • Charan Manikanta Nalla

    Design engineering

    Designs the system and writes the code that ships it. On every project, start to finish.

On demand

  • Hemanth Srinivas

    Full stack

    Multi-platform app developer. Ships production mobile at an edtech company in Bengaluru.

  • Naveen Poliasetty

    AI

    AI engineer.

  • Harsha Vardhan B.

    Full stack

    Masters at IITB.

  • Vidhan Reddy A.

    Full stack

    Web developer.

if I get hit by a bus.

The honest risk of hiring one person is that the person stops. Most of the answer is already true of how I work — your code lives in your repository from the first day, and you have never paid for more than you have received — so it costs nothing to write it down and check it.

The part that is a real commitment is the last two rows. Someone on the bench has repo access and your contact details before your project starts, and knows it exists.

if I get hit by a bus — 6 clauses
Your code
in your repository from day one, pushed daily
Documentation
architecture doc + README with every milestone — pick-up-in-a-day standard
Payment
40 / 40 / 20 against milestones. vanish at 60% done, you paid 60%
IP
assigns to you on final payment, in writing
Backup
one named person on the bench holds repo access and your details
Trigger
if I'm unresponsive for five business days, they contact you

who’s behind this.

Charan Manikanta Nalla. I design in Figma and I ship in production Next.js, and I have been doing both halves of that job for long enough that I stopped pretending they are two jobs.

What that looks like in practice is on this site: a drop-commerce storefront where the scarcity rule is enforced in the data rather than the copy, an AI notetaker rebuilt around what happens to the knowledge after the meeting, and the identity, billing and scheduling layer that seven of my own products run on — including the checkout you would buy an audit through. One of them takes money from strangers. The rest are mine, and they say so.

Pixelform trades under devsforfun Studio (OPC) Private Limited.

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the operator — 5 rows

Operator

Name
Charan Manikanta Nalla
Designs in
Figma
Ships in
Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind
Entity
devsforfun Studio (OPC) Private Limited
Bench
four named collaborators, booked per engagement