Blue Ceiba

Built to last, like the ceiba we're named after.

Blue Ceiba is a Texas software studio. We build and run apps for local businesses, and partner with companies of any size on web, cloud, and security projects.

The Blue Ceiba emblem: a blue-green ceiba tree with three bluebonnets

Our first app

Appxolotl, for dog-grooming shops

Appxolotl keeps a grooming shop's schedule, clients and their dogs in one place, on the phone in your pocket and the computer at the front desk. Parents book online and get reminders; the shop decides who grooms what.

  • Every groomer's day on one schedule
  • Online booking the shop approves
  • Reminders by email, texts as an add-on
  • Pet records, reports and supplies
  • In English and Spanish, with a 30-day free trial

What we do

Well-built software, from everyday apps to serious engineering.

For businesses

Apps that run your day

Focused web apps for scheduling, bookings, clients and inventory. They work on phones and computers, install without an app store, and can speak English and Spanish.

Affordable monthly plans, like Appxolotl.

Websites that cost less to run

Paying too much each month for a website builder? We move your site to fast, reliable hosting on your own domain, keep it running, and make updates when you need them.

One simple yearly plan, with updates priced as you go.

For engineering teams

A senior engineer, when you need one

Staff and principal-level full-stack engineering for projects that need to move: new products, hard migrations, and systems that have to be secure and reliable from day one.

  • Identity, sign-in and application security
  • Healthcare software and HIPAA-regulated data
  • Cloud architecture on AWS, web apps and APIs
  • TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, Go, Java and C#

Project-based or hourly contracts.

Discuss a project
Blue Ceiba logo

Where Texas bluebonnets meet the Maya ceiba, good software grows.

The name joins two places. Blue is for the bluebonnets that cover Texas every spring. The ceiba is the sacred tree of the Maya, the tall tree of Chiapas and Yucatán whose wide crown shelters everything beneath it.

In Maya, yax means blue-green, and the ceiba is called yaxché. So "Blue Ceiba" is almost the tree's own name, carried over from Maya. It's also what we want to be: one roof that shelters a family of small, useful products, grown with care in Texas.

Get in touch

A project for your engineering team, an app for your business, or a website you'd like to move? Send a note and we will get back to you soon.

contact@blueceibalabs.com