About
Darminsky Corporation
Darminsky is a venture lab and public project portfolio based in Ontario. We build and publish our own products — iOS apps, web tools, internal platforms, and research-backed experiments — and document them in the open so people can follow what we're working on right now.
Each project starts as a real problem we want solved, runs on our own infrastructure and budget, and either becomes an independent product or a lesson that sharpens the next attempt. Active projects live on the Projects page; weekly progress notes live on Updates.
Our work is grounded in what we call longevity engineering: building software that is honest about its complexity, designed to be maintained by whoever comes next, and sized to fit the real problem rather than a hypothetical future one.
We also take on a small number of outside consulting engagements each year for teams whose problems fit what we already build. Consulting is a side door, not the front door.
How we work
- Clarity over complexity. We prefer simple solutions that are easy to maintain over clever ones that are hard to explain.
- Ship and learn. Small, fast cycles beat long, ambitious ones. We favour working software over extensive planning documents.
- Longevity engineering. Systems should be maintainable, transferable, and honest about their complexity. We design for a 5–10 year lifecycle, not the next demo.
- Ownership. We write documentation, tests, and runbooks so that whatever we build can be owned by whoever needs to maintain it.
Team
Joshua Symons-Webb
Founder & Director
A builder at the intersection of software, engineering, and sustainability. Joshua leads strategy, product, and engineering at Darminsky — and ships everything from iOS apps to full-stack platforms.
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