KIMLABS DEVELOPMENT
About KIMLABS

It started with a computer and a kid who couldn't leave it alone.

Kim Ung got his hands on a computer as a kid and never really let go: taking things apart, breaking them, and working out how to put them back together better. That curiosity became a craft, and in 2020 it became a profession.

KIMLABS is the company that grew out of it. We're a Sydney software company that builds and runs its own products, from native apps to the networks and systems underneath them.

We don't chase trends. We build things we want to use, keep them fast and small, and look after them for the long run.

Products live
2
Cove and HyFabric
In the lab
3
From concept to development
At the core
Rust
Of everything we ship
Headquartered
SYD
Sydney, Australia
What we value

Small team. High standards.

  • Build it properly

    We'd rather ship one thing that's fast, small and dependable than five that are almost there.

  • Own the outcome

    We design, build, host and support our products ourselves, so there's no one else to blame and nothing we can't fix.

  • Respect the user

    Fair pricing, no dark patterns, and data handled the way we'd want ours handled.

  • Stay curious

    The same instinct that had a kid taking computers apart still drives what we try next in the lab.

Stack

What we build with.

Rust for the core, the best native toolkit for each platform, and a modern web stack around it.

Systems

  • Rust
  • Tokio
  • QUIC
  • UniFFI
  • pyo3

Native apps

  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • AppKit
  • Core Image

Web

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS

Data & ML

  • PostgreSQL
  • Drizzle
  • Python
  • PyTorch

Infrastructure

  • Cloudflare
  • Vercel
  • Docker
  • Linux

Realtime

  • WebSocket
  • Server-Sent Events
  • gRPC

Just joking around. Production is safe, we promise.

The universal engineer experience

const worksOnMyMachine = true;
const inProduction = false;
 
if (worksOnMyMachine && !inProduction) {
  console.log("Ship it.");
} else {
  console.log("Investigating...");
}

Every engineer knows that works_on_my_machine === true is the most dangerous boolean in software.

Try what we've built.

Cove is free to download. HyFabric works in Cove or with the client you already use.

Download CoveExplore HyFabric Say hello

hello@kimlabs.dev