Studio
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.
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 first row is not one of them. That one is on every project from the first commit to the last, which is the entire reason this studio is worth hiring.
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.
- 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.
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