About
A small studio, run by someone who still builds.
RTSoftLabs is deliberately small. Behind it is one owner and a network of trusted collaborators — which means you work directly with the person setting the direction, not a sales desk.
I run RTSoftLabs. I've been building software for close to twenty years — long enough to have shipped things I'm proud of, and enough experiments that quietly taught me what not to do.
My background is fairly ordinary on paper: I studied mathematics and computer science and then took a master's in computer science, both at the University of Bucharest, after spending my school years buried in programming competitions. What that education really gave me was a habit of breaking a messy problem down until the software that solves it becomes obvious.
Since then I've built websites, web apps, desktop tools and a handful of my own products. Some found real users — Penguinhops is the current one I'm most fond of. Others were experiments I eventually set aside. I try to be honest about the difference; I think it's more useful than a wall of success stories.
That's the second half of what I do. Over the years I've learned a great deal about how people find things online — search, content, paid traffic — and I fold that into the work, so a project doesn't end at "it's built" and quietly disappear.
I don't pretend to do everything myself. I've worked with freelancers and specialists for years — designers, developers, and other good people I bring in when a project deserves more than one pair of hands. Keeping the studio small and the network wide is a choice: low overhead, direct communication, and no diluting the work through layers of account managers.
These days I build AI-native — one owner with far more leverage than a solo developer used to have. It's a genuinely good time to make things, and I'd rather spend it building than talking about building.
What I'm looking for
Three kinds of conversation, honestly:
— People who want software built. If you have a real problem and the patience to solve it properly, I'd like to hear about it.
— Partners. Collaborators and specialists to build alongside, and people with ideas who need a technical half.
— Investors. If you like backing small, capital-efficient builders who ship their own products, let's talk.