AN INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE STUDIO
We build original products, explore useful ideas and help solve difficult software problems.
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01 / OUT IN THE OPEN
Original software, built here.
From the first question to what comes next.
AN ORIGINAL HIDDEN ROOM LABS PRODUCT
Music. Community. A queue that works.
An interactive music request and queue management platform for streamers and their audiences. Bringing song requests, paid requests and audience interaction into the same rhythm.
In active development
Explore Queuebox (opens in a new tab)02 / GOOD COMPANY FOR COMPLEX PROBLEMS
Alongside our own products, we work with people and teams who care about building good software.
Experienced thinking. Hands-on engineering. An honest conversation about what you actually need.
Start a conversationA clearer way forward.
Make difficult engineering decisions with a clear view of the trade-offs. System design, architecture reviews and pragmatic routes out of complexity.
From the idea to the running thing.
Hands-on engineering to bring products to production, solve stubborn technical problems and improve the platforms people already depend on.
Good software is a team effort.
Connect technical direction with business priorities. Support teams, strengthen delivery and create room for autonomy and constructive challenge.
Find the useful part.
Explore practical uses of AI, automation and agentic workflows. Test the idea, evaluate the results and keep reliability and human oversight in view.
03 / THE THINKING BEHIND THE WORK
The “Labs” is a licence to explore.
The engineering is knowing what to keep.
New tools and unfamiliar ideas are worth exploring. The interesting question is whether they make something better. That includes AI.
Software has a life after it ships. Correctness, reliability and maintainability matter, along with the experience of the people using it.
Good ideas can come from anywhere. Trust, autonomy and a little constructive challenge tend to make the work better.
Rob Ray-White
FOUNDER, HIDDEN ROOM LABSHidden Room Labs is founder-led, with over 20 years of experience across hands-on software engineering, technical architecture, SaaS products and engineering leadership. That includes leading a multidisciplinary engineering and product function, and taking ideas through to real-world operation.
04 / THE DOOR IS OPEN
A product idea, a tricky engineering problem or an interesting possibility. There’s room for a conversation.
rob@hiddenroomlabs.com