<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Notes from the studio on Givore Studio — Websites, apps &amp; growth for local businesses</title><link>https://studio.givore.com/blog/</link><description>Recent content in Notes from the studio on Givore Studio — Websites, apps &amp; growth for local businesses</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-US</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://studio.givore.com/blog/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>How I built and grew Givore on my own</title><link>https://studio.givore.com/blog/how-i-built-and-grew-givore/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://studio.givore.com/blog/how-i-built-and-grew-givore/</guid><description>Most agencies would split a project like Givore across a team: one person for the app, another for the backend, someone for social, a growth specialist on top. I did all of it myself — and it&amp;rsquo;s still running in production today.
Build Givore is a free app for giving and finding things near you. I designed it, wrote the iOS and Android apps, built the backend and the APIs, and shipped the website.</description></item></channel></rss>