Live Sleepy Whisper
The video goes straight from the nursery to you. There's no server in between.
2026 Case study →
Apps, websites, hardware · Philippines
Built for tayo.
Filipino has two words for "we". We picked the one that includes you.
- kami
- we, but not you
- tayo
- we, and you are in it
We like ordinary problems, the ones nobody has got round to fixing. A train queue, a parcel nobody can sign for, a shop customers can't find online. We stay with one until we understand it, then build whatever makes it go away.
tayo + io
The io in TAIO means input and output.
It's also how we work.
You bring an idea in one end and a working thing comes out the other. Usually that's an app or a website. Once it was a wall of parcel lockers. We've worked this way since 2018, on other people's ideas and our own.
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Input
Your idea, however rough. A sketch, a spreadsheet, or just a problem you keep working around.
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We talk it through
What it is, who it's for, and the smallest version that would already help somebody.
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We build it
Apps, websites, live video, even hardware. You see it working along the way, not just at the end.
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Output
Something people use. It runs, we look after it, and it's yours.
Some of what we have built
Live 
2020–2022 Beehive Smart Lockers
Took package handling off the front desk, back when nobody wanted to hand anything to anybody.
Case study →
Live TrainsPh
Commuters check the fare, the next train and how packed the platform is before they leave the house.
2017 Case study →
In development Sunshine Farm PH
Donations through the site go to the farm, and the farm pays people with disabilities to work it.
2024 Case study →
Some client work stays private, because the client asked.
Live right now
Have a go yourself
These are working versions of things we built, running in this page. Type in them, click them, break them if you can.
Sleepy Whisper
The video goes straight from the nursery to you. There's no server in between.
More about this one →Nursery phone
http://192.168.1.14:8080
Access code
482 019
In the app this changes every 5 minutes. We sped it up to 10 seconds so you can watch it.
Type that address into any browser on your own phone. There is nothing to install on the second one.
- 0 accounts
- 0 servers in the path
- 2 phones, paired before either can watch
A neighbour on your Wi-Fi cannot open your nursery. The phones have to be paired first, and by now the code above has already changed.
Beehive Smart Lockers
Took package handling off the front desk, back when nobody wanted to hand anything to anybody.
More about this one →Go on, click a door.
Nothing waiting. The front desk has nothing to hold on to, sort out, or hand over.
TranspoPh
Tells you what a road trip will cost, and what each person in the car owes, before anyone leaves the house.
More about this one →What we can build
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Mobile apps
Android and iPhone apps, out in the stores where people can find them.
We built Sleepy Whisper·TranspoPh·TrainsPh
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Live video and audio
Sent straight from one device to another, with no server in between.
We built Sleepy Whisper·TrainsPh
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Connected hardware
Software that opens a real door and tells somebody it opened.
We built Beehive Smart Lockers
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Crowdsourced data
Apps where the users supply the data, so more users means better data.
We built TrainsPh
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Payments and donations
Subscriptions, payments and donations, set up so nobody checks them by hand.
We built Fit for Faith
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Content platforms
Catalogues, portfolios and mix libraries on a domain the owner holds.
We built Quicksteps Solutions·Blissful Bites·NV Tunes
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Websites
Fast sites that still load on a cheap phone and a weak signal.
We built Sleepy Whisper·Beehive Smart Lockers·Quicksteps Solutions
Each line links to a project you can open. If we haven't built it, it isn't listed.
Where things stand
- 2018Building since, for clients and for ourselves
- 13Projects, ours and other people's
- 8Still live today, not just launched
TAIO Labs is run by John Nicholai Villegas, Nico, from the Philippines.