Product studio · Melbourne, Australia
Cherry Ripe Software is the Melbourne studio behind seven Australian products, from invoicing for tradies to anthems for the under-10s. We design them, build them, own them and keep them running.
01 What we do
Webuildsoftwareforpeoplewithaspecificjobtodo:asparkychasinganunpaidinvoice,acoachwhowantsasongfortheunder-11s,aschooltryingtokeeptrackofdozensofappsubscriptions.Eachofthemgetsaproductoftheirown,andwekeepeveryonerunninglongafterlaunch.
02 The portfolio
Each one solves a real problem for a specific group of Australians. Some are live and earning, some are being built right now. Cherry Ripe Software owns and runs them all.
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01LiveInvoicing
Invoices for Aussie sole traders, paid by PayID.
Make an invoice on your phone, send it by SMS or email, and get paid straight into your account with PayID. The free plan covers two invoices a month. Pro adds unlimited and recurring invoices for $4 a month.
02LiveMusic
Custom anthems for junior sports teams and celebrations.
Tell us about the team, the colours and the inside jokes, and we'll write and produce a song the kids will sing in the car all season. We're automating the whole pipeline, from the brief through to lyrics and a finished track.
03In developmentFamily
Private audiobooks, recorded by your own family.
Grandparents, parents and kids record stories for each other and keep them in a private family library. It's designed for kids aged 7 to 11, so it feels like an adventure and nothing like a nursery.
04Early accessAged care
Matching performers with aged care homes.
Singers, musicians and other entertainers find regular gigs in residential aged care, and facilities find acts their residents will enjoy. Founding performers can join now for a one-off $5.
05In developmentTax
Your individual tax return, done as a conversation.
An AI assistant walks you through your return in plain English, then a registered tax agent checks it before it's lodged. We're building it in partnership with a registered tax agent.
06LiveMusic
Online music competitions decided by listeners.
Artists enter their tracks, listeners vote, and the leaderboard sorts out the winners. Creators can start on the free plan and step up to Pro when they want more from each competition.
07In developmentEducation
A software register and compliance tracker for schools.
Schools keep track of every app they use, what it costs, when it renews and whether it meets privacy requirements. Teachers request new apps, leaders approve them, and parents can see which online services their kids use. We're starting with Victorian public primary schools.
More in the orchard.
New ideas get prototyped all the time. The good ones end up here.
03 How we build
We pick a problem a real person has, talk to people who have it, and write it down properly before anyone opens a design tool. Our founder is a technical business analyst by trade, so every product starts with a requirements doc and a map of how the work actually happens.
Screens get designed and argued over in Google Stitch until the flow feels obvious. Clickable prototypes come next, and people who'd actually use the thing get a look before a line of production code exists.
Every product runs on the same foundation: TypeScript, React and Postgres on Floot, with Stripe for payments and Cloudflare R2 where we need file storage. Because the stack is shared, a fix or a good idea in one product is quick to carry across to the others.
AI writes the first draft of an Anthem Factory song and guides Pronto Tax customers through their return. Behind the scenes it helps us build faster. A person still checks anything that matters, like a tax return before it's lodged.
After launch we look after hosting, payments, support emails and the steady run of small fixes. We own every product outright, so we're still the ones looking after it a year later.
04 Capabilities
Customer-facing web apps, marketing sites, admin areas and back-office tools. We design, build and host the lot, so there's one team accountable for all of it.
Stripe subscriptions, one-off fees, paid competition entries and PayID-friendly invoicing.
Conversational intake, AI drafting and generation pipelines, with a person checking the output where it counts.
Our founder does enterprise integration for a living, on platforms like Workato, webMethods and Snowflake. Our products talk to SMS gateways, payment providers and music APIs.
One app serving many organisations, each with its own data, roles and email-based two-factor sign-in.
iPhone and Android versions are on the way, starting with OzInvoice.
05 One roof
Cherry Ripe Software is the company that holds the whole portfolio. Customers deal with one Australian business, and every product gets the same standard of security, billing and support. When we solve something well in one product, the rest get it too.
The studio · Melbourne06 Who's behind it
Dane is a principal consultant and technical business analyst. He's spent his career delivering systems for government, healthcare technology companies and digital agencies, much of it on the integration work that makes different platforms talk to each other.
Cherry Ripe Software is where he builds products of his own, with the same habits he brings to client work: understand the process first, write it down, then build something people can actually use.
07 · Get in touch
We're open to partnerships, licensing conversations and the occasional product built with someone else. If you're a customer of one of our products, this is the place for that too.