Software thatgives peoplebetter direction.
Northstar is an independent studio. We build and run a growing portfolio of products and projects, and follow each one further than most companies bother to.
HabitatIQ
Six honest signals on every home and suburb, reported by the people who actually live there. No listing copy, no agent gloss.
- Products
- Projects for clients
- Problem spaces
Our approach
We don't chase every direction. We choose where to work, then follow each product further than most companies bother to.
How we build
Small teams own a product or project end to end. No handoffs, no diffusion of responsibility.
We choose the problem first.
We don't start with a technology looking for a use. We start with something broken and work backward.
Work built for problems worth solving
Everything we build has its own star on the chart, and the chart grows as the portfolio does. Open one to see what it does and who it is for.
LiveHabitatIQ
Know what a place is like before you sign for it.
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LiveAll Grace Properties
More than property. It's possibility.
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FOLIO
The modern document workspace.
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Scroll
Your files, organized like thought.
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Snag
Describe what you need. Fund it. The crowd does the rest.
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Latch
The gap after graduation is a network gap.
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The problem spaces we return to on purpose
Each space is a place where people are routinely stuck. New products and projects join the space they belong to.
Why the name
A north star doesn’t move the traveller. It gives them a fixed point to move relative to.
That is what we try to build: software that gives people better direction, in places where direction is usually missing. Small teams own each product end to end.
More about the studioQuestions we get asked
Yes, alongside our own products. Products start from problems we chose to take seriously ourselves. Projects, like the All Grace Properties website, are built for clients who bring theirs. Write to hello@northstartechnology.co.za to talk about one.
A growing portfolio of products and projects, organised across the problem spaces we return to deliberately: consumer, professional, and infrastructure. Each is built over years rather than one idea multiplied many ways.
Each product or project is built by a small group that owns it end to end — no handoffs, no diffusion of responsibility.
General enquiries go to hello@northstartechnology.co.za, press to press@northstartechnology.co.za, and careers to careers@northstartechnology.co.za.
Contact
Write to the studio.
Tell us what you are working on, or which product caught your eye.