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Shaped by
the wind.
Still standing.

We build websites, mobile apps and APIs from Oranjestad. The last one put augmented reality in a guest's hands, on iOS, Android and the web, from one codebase.

12°31′N  70°02′W

The work

Judge a studio by what it has shipped.

House of Mosaic Art Villa · Oranjestad

A gallery that
tells its own stories.

A boutique art hotel with a problem every gallery has: the story behind a piece lives in the owner's head, not on the wall.

A guest points a phone at an artwork and the piece starts talking, in their own language. There is no QR code taped to the frame. The artwork itself is what the camera recognises. Story Mode builds a collectible mosaic as they walk the collection, and a VR gallery runs in the browser with nothing to install.

MindAR · Three.js · Capacitor · Vite

A guest room at House of Mosaic Art Villa, warm-lit at night
15 artworks · 4 languages

English · Español
Nederlands · Papiamento

The Narnia Suite
Narnia Suite
The Black Velvet room
Black Velvet
The Azure room
Azure
2

App stores. One codebase builds both, and the website too.

15

Artworks, each with its own recognition target and narration.

4

Languages, Papiamento included. Written here, not sent out.

0

Downloads needed for the VR gallery. It runs in the browser.

Also built

Live sites, open one right now.

Croes Accounting website
Accounting · Oranjestad

Croes Accounting

Bookkeeping, payroll and BBO filing for Aruban businesses. Four languages, a client portal, and the filing deadline counted down on the page.

croesaccounting.com
AruSalt website
Producer · e-commerce

AruSalt

Hand-harvested sea salt from Aruba. The crystal mark set over an aerial of the reef it comes from, with the shop behind it.

arusalt.com
MRZ Media website
Agency · redesign

MRZ Media

A full rebuild for a local photography and video team. One file, every asset inlined, deployed on every push.

View site

What we build

Four things, and nothing else.

Websites

Four to six pages, mobile first, a contact form whose mail reaches your inbox, and your Google listing wired up so people can find you.

from $800one week

Mobile apps

Built once, shipped to both stores, sharing code with your website. We've been through Apple and Google review, so we know what gets a build rejected before you write it.

from $4,500four to eight weeks

APIs

Your booking system, your POS and your website probably don't talk to each other. We build the layer between them, with the authentication and rate limiting that hold up once real traffic arrives.

from $1,200two to four weeks

Augmented reality

AR that recognises real objects through a phone camera, and 3D that runs in a browser with nothing to install. We quote these one at a time, because no two are the same job.

quotedper project

How it works

Nobody pays us to find out.

01

Tell us what the business does

An email or a call. What you sell, and what you want somebody to be able to do on the site. That's the whole brief. You don't need to know what you want it to look like.

02

We build one before you pay

A working site on a real address, with your words and your photos. Not a mockup, and not a template with your logo dropped on it. You look at it on your own phone.

03

You decide

If it isn't right, you owe nothing and we shake hands. If it is, half up front and half the day it goes live. We write the scope down first, including how many rounds of changes, so nobody is guessing by round four.

04

It goes on your domain

Your domain, your hosting account, your Google listing. One week for a website, longer for the bigger work, and we tell you which before you commit to anything.

Tell us what
you're building.

info@arubawebstudio.com

Nos ta papia Papiamento · Nederlands · Español · English