A one-person studio · Poland

Humans and robots working together, in iterations.

I'm Jarek Śmiejczak, and Iterative.media is my studio, based in Poland. I build and ship my own apps and prototypes, and now and then I make something for someone else. The work stays small on purpose. I use AI to move faster; the judgement is still mine.

See what I makeHow I work

No notifications. No vanity metrics. Just software, made with care and shipped when it's done.

The manifesto

What I stand for.

  • We build products that help people enhance creativity, not replace it.

  • Iterate ideas instead of generating them.

  • Free from dopamine-inducing notifications and vanity statistics.

  • Merging the old world with modern tools.

How I work

Mostly, it's repetition.

01

Start with one idea

Mine or someone else's. A sentence is enough to start. You don't need a brief or a kickoff call.

02

Build the smallest thing that works

Something you can actually use, even if it only does a little. Made by hand, with good tools.

03

Put it out there

Ship it early and live with it, and find out how it holds up once it's no longer just in my head.

04

Then go again

Every pass is a bit sharper than the last. AI takes the grunt work; the taste stays human.

What I'm making now.

In iterationPrototype

Folio

A photography portfolio app. It helps a photographer pull a body of work out of a messy archive: picking the keepers and putting them in an order that actually says something.

My first prototype. Still rough, still being figured out.

Folio — full prototype screen
In iterationPrototype

Folio

folio.iterative.media

A photography portfolio app. It helps a photographer pull a body of work out of a messy archive: picking the keepers, then putting them in an order that actually says something. The hard part isn't storage — it's editing: deciding what stays, what goes, and what sequence makes the work read.

My first prototype. Still rough, still being figured out — built and reshaped in iterations.

I'm interested in this project

Building something? Let's talk.

I take on a couple of outside projects a year. Send one email and it comes straight to me — I'll usually reply the same day. I won't put you in a funnel.