Quiet websites for loud ideas.
Mirae is a small, independent design and engineering studio building deliberate, durable web work for founders, institutions and arts organisations across Southeast Asia. We write the code, draw the type, and stay until launch.
- Works shipped
- 7across 6 sectors
- Average build
- 3.2wksbrief → live
- Lighthouse
- 98/100median, last 12 mo.
- Studio size
- 2+1no agency layer
- Hand-coded.
- No templates.
- Owned by you.
Selected work
Seven sites and apps, newest first. Every row links to the live build. Process documents, sketches and source files are available on request.
- 072026
Fast Female
Community · App
app.fastfemale.io
A new app build, freshly underway — the early scaffolding of a members' space. Quiet weeks of structure and decisions before the public-facing release.
React Router · App · In progress
- 062025
Wellbeing Champions
Community · Singapore
community.wellbeingchampions.sg
A members' space for a Singapore-based wellbeing network — a quiet home for resources, conversations and check-ins between champions, separate from the public-facing site.
React Router · Auth · Members
- 052025
Barry Chou
Personal · Portfolio
barrychou.com
A personal site for a writer and operator. Editorial pace, restrained typography, archive-first navigation that puts the work above the bio.
React · MDX · Editorial
- 042024
Smart Skin Clinic
Aesthetic clinic
smartskinclinic.co.id
Marketing site for a Jakarta dermatology and aesthetic clinic. Treatment menu, doctor profiles, a booking funnel that respects how patients actually decide.
WordPress · Custom theme · Booking
- 032024
Yayasan Pulih
Non-profit
yayasanpulih.org
Community-trauma foundation, working since 2002. We rebuilt the archive in two languages with citation-aware article pages.
WordPress · Bilingual · Donations
- 022023
Ebony Batulicin
Hospitality
ebony-batulicin.com
Three-star hotel in Batulicin, South Kalimantan. Rooms, facilities, and a reservation flow that carries travelers from landing page to booked stay.
Nuxt · Bilingual · Booking
- 012023
STP Coal
Industrial
stpcoal.co.id
Corporate site for a mining group. We removed every stock photograph and replaced them with documentation from the actual site.
React · Multilingual
On 07 — Fast Female
Fast Female is founded and led by Jess — the vision, the community and the standard it is held to are hers. We are alongside as cofounder, building the platform underneath her idea.
Practice
Five things, done seriously. Most engagements move between them.
- Brand websitesMost projects
Editorial, considered marketing sites for studios, founders and institutions. React Router, Astro, or hand-rolled — chosen for the brief, not the agency stack.
React · Astro · Sanity / Payload · Type design
- Editorial publicationsFor arts orgs
Long-form, archive-driven sites. Custom typography, footnotes, citations, slow scrolling. We treat the article as the unit of design.
WordPress · Custom themes · MDX · Webfonts
- Booking & commerceShipped 4×
Wellness platforms, mentorship marketplaces, lightweight stores. Stripe / Midtrans, room calendars, member areas. Built thin, kept honest.
Stripe · Midtrans · Booking · Auth
- Brand identitySelective
Wordmarks, mini-systems, social kits. We design as your engineers, so the identity actually reaches production unbroken.
Wordmark · System · Social kits
- Care & evolutionLong-term
Monthly retainers for clients we've built for. Performance, copy edits, new sections, occasional crisis. No ticket portals — you message us.
Retainer · Performance · Copywriting
And what we will not take on
- Generic AI mock-ups dressed as design.
- Theme reskins billed as custom builds.
- SEO that smells like a content farm.
- Engagements where the brief never settles.
Open lane
We hold one slot each quarter for schools, student organisations, small events and partnership work. Smaller scope, smaller invoice, same level of attention. If that is you, write anyway — there is a budget tier for it on the form below.
If one of these is your shape, we should talk before the season fills up.
Reply within 24h, weekdays JKT
A working philosophy, not a deck.
Founded 2022. Two principals, one rotating collaborator. Two cities, one timezone.
Most agencies sell volume. We sell attention. Each year we take a small number of projects we can hold in our heads at once — usually six, sometimes eight — and refuse the rest with a polite note. The work that survives this filter has time inside it: time to read your industry, draw the type, write the copy in your voice, and rewrite it on a Tuesday morning when something better suggests itself.
We are unfashionably suspicious of the generic. The web has enough auto-generated, gradient-drenched landing pages. What it needs more of is reading, restraint, and pages that load.
Built for
- Fast Female
- Wellbeing Champions, SG
- Barry Chou
- Smart Skin Clinic
- Yayasan Pulih
- Ebony Batulicin
- STP Coal
- I
Slow looking.
Before the first artboard, we read everything you have written about yourselves. Half the design problems dissolve in that reading.
- II
One author per surface.
Whoever designs the page also writes the CSS for it. We refuse the relay race that turns shape into approximation.
- III
Boring stack, sharp edges.
Plain HTML where it works. React where it earns its keep. We pick tools we can still maintain three years from now.
- IV
Type before image.
We will spend two days on a wordmark and two hours on a hero photo. The reading experience always carries more weight than the styling.
- V
Stay until launch.
We do not hand off to your in-house team in week six and disappear. Launch is the meeting, not the milestone.
- Currency
- IDR · USD · SGD
- Hours
- Mon–Fri · 09–18 WIB
- Languages
- Indonesian · English
- Out of office
- First Sunday, monthly
Send the first paragraph of your brief.
A few sentences is plenty. We answer every brief personally, usually within a working day.