Overview
2 Lovelaces is a software company that designs, builds, and maintains digital products for other teams. Startups and organizations hire it to turn an idea into a working app, or to add engineers and designers to a team they already have1. Much of the work it has shipped is public tooling for Cardano governance, community funding, and education2.
The company works closely with Lido Nation, a Cardano education site that also runs a stake pool2 and calls 2 Lovelaces its development agency3. The 2 Lovelaces name is a tribute to Ada Lovelace, whom the team calls the world's first computer programmer, and to the lovelace, the smallest unit of ADA4.
Key Features
- Products taken from idea to launch. The product and software engineering service covers planning, technical design, and production release, and the company says it stays on to help a product scale once users arrive1.
- Extra hands for an existing team. Through team augmentation, 2 Lovelaces places its engineers, project managers, and designers inside a client's own workflow for a limited period, which the company says avoids the overhead of a full hire1.
- Part-time technology leadership. The fractional CTO service, a part-time chief technology officer, helps startups set technical direction, weigh architecture decisions, and mentor engineering teams1.
- Design beyond the screen. The design team produces brand identities, app and website interfaces, print materials, and branded merchandise so a client's brand looks consistent on screen and in print1.
- Cardano tools in the portfolio. Shipped work includes Catalyst Explorer, which shows data on proposals in Project Catalyst, Cardano's community funding program, 1694.io, a guide to how Cardano holders vote on network changes, and AdaLink, a link-in-bio page builder2.
What to Expect
The 2 Lovelaces website reads like an agency portfolio. A products page shows screenshots and short summaries of shipped work2, and a people page introduces each team member by name and role4. There is no self-serve app or price list. Projects start through the message form or the email address on the services page1.
Organizations looking for a build partner will find the working style spelled out on the homepage. The team uses a modified version of Scrum, a common way of planning software work in short cycles, and ties each release to the client's goals and users. It also promises testing and architecture review, and says it prefers partners building tools that give people more control over their data or strengthen democratic participation5.
Developers can browse public code on the company's own GitLab server, a code-hosting site similar to GitHub. One project there is Readscale, an open-source package, released under the MIT license, that spreads database reads across several copies of a database for apps built with Laravel, a popular PHP web framework6.
Cardano users may already know some of the team's joint work with Lido Nation. AdaPay, a WordPress plugin funded through Project Catalyst, lets online shops accept ADA straight into their own wallet7. The two teams also proposed a Cardano MCP, a toolkit that lets AI coding assistants look up Cardano data and build transactions, in the treasury budget process run by Intersect, a member-based Cardano governance organization8.
The journal adds a human side: team members write about design meetups, learning on the job, and growing as software developers9.
