[ In short ]
Lunarion Labs helps Los Angeles companies in entertainment, creator businesses, DTC brands, aerospace and wellness fix and build their software. We rescue stuck apps and platforms, build SaaS and internal tools, ship iOS and Android apps through App Store review, add AI agents and automation, and improve visibility on Google and AI search. We work remotely with calls in the Pacific morning, one senior lead owns each project, and every engagement starts with a fixed-price audit that ends with a detailed quote.
01The Los Angeles market
Los Angeles is the home of the American entertainment industry, with film and television studios, streaming, music labels, post-production houses and talent agencies spread from Burbank to Culver City and Hollywood. Around that core sits a huge creator economy: influencers, podcasters, production companies and the small teams that run their merch, memberships and fan communities. Add one of the largest concentrations of direct-to-consumer brands in the country, a fashion and apparel district downtown, and a wellness scene that sells classes, coaching and products online.
The tech side has its own identity. The Westside startup scene, often called Silicon Beach, stretches across Santa Monica, Venice and Playa Vista, while aerospace and defense engineering has deep roots in the South Bay around El Segundo. UCLA, USC and Caltech in Pasadena train engineers and researchers who stay in the region. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, side by side on San Pedro Bay, make the area a major gateway for imported goods, which feeds a large logistics and fulfillment sector inland.
For software, this mix creates a particular pattern. Many Los Angeles products are consumer facing: an app, a membership, a storefront, a fan experience. They succeed or fail on how they feel on a phone and on whether checkout works during a launch. Launch dates are tied to a release, a drop, a tour or a campaign, and they cannot slip. When the developer who built the product disappears, or the app gets rejected the week before a premiere, teams need someone who can step in fast and calmly.
Sectors we know well in Los Angeles
- Entertainment and media
- Creator economy
- DTC and e-commerce brands
- Aerospace
- Health and wellness
02Software challenges we see in Los Angeles
Launches tied to dates that cannot move
A product drop, a season premiere or a creator's announcement brings a wave of traffic on a fixed day. Stores, ticketing flows and sign-up pages that work fine on a quiet Tuesday can fail under that load. Preparing for a launch means load checks, payment testing, monitoring and a rollback plan, done on a staging copy well before the date, not the night before.
Apps stuck in App Store review
Creator, media and wellness apps often touch the areas Apple and Google review most closely: subscriptions, digital content, user-generated content, health data. A rejection with a vague message can block a campaign. Getting through review means reading the guidelines precisely, fixing the actual cause, and resubmitting with the explanation reviewers expect.
Commerce stacks glued together by apps and scripts
Many DTC brands in Los Angeles run Shopify or a custom store with a long list of plugins for subscriptions, reviews, loyalty, inventory and shipping. Each one works alone, but together they create sync errors, double charges and stock that does not match. Untangling that stack is careful, unglamorous work that pays off on every order.
Production teams running on spreadsheets
Studios, agencies and production companies juggle schedules, crews, rights, budgets and deliverables across shared spreadsheets and chat threads. The information exists, but nobody has a reliable single view. A focused internal tool, with the right roles and permissions, turns that scattered information into something the whole team can trust.
03What we do for Los Angeles companies
Software rescue
When a Los Angeles app or platform has been abandoned by its developer, or built quickly with an AI app builder and now breaks with real fans or customers, we take it over. We audit the code, recover the developer accounts, Stripe and hosting into your company's name, fix what crashes, and set up a staging copy so updates can ship safely again before your next release date.
SaaS & business software
We build business software and SaaS for Los Angeles teams: production scheduling and asset tracking for studios, booking and membership platforms for wellness brands, rights and royalty dashboards for music and content owners, client portals for talent and creative agencies. Each comes with roles and permissions, an admin panel, recurring billing with Stripe where needed, and the integrations your team relies on.
Mobile apps
Mobile is often the whole product here. We build and rescue iOS and Android apps for creators, fan communities, fitness and wellness programs and consumer brands: subscriptions and in-app purchases done by the rules, push notifications that arrive, video and content feeds that load quickly, and crash reporting from day one. We prepare submissions and reply to App Review so launches stay on schedule.
AI & agents
We build AI agents that handle repetitive work for Los Angeles teams: answering fan or customer questions from your own policies and FAQs, tagging and organizing large content libraries, drafting product descriptions in your brand voice for review, and summarizing support conversations for the team. Agents run with clear access rules and logs, in accounts you own, and we keep humans in the loop where a brand's voice is at stake.
Automation
For brands and agencies, we automate the daily copy-paste: orders flowing from the store to the warehouse and accounting, new creator or partner sign-ups landing in the CRM with the right tags, inventory alerts before a product sells out, weekly performance summaries sent to managers. When a Zapier or Make setup has grown fragile, we rebuild the critical parts as reliable code with alerts on failure.
SEO & AI visibility
Los Angeles brands and studios compete for attention well beyond their city. We fix the technical side of your site or store (speed on mobile, indexing, structured data for products and events), then build pages that match how people search for what you sell. We also work on how AI assistants describe your brand, so answers about your products and services point to accurate, current information.
04Typical situations in Los Angeles
- A creator or media app is stuck in App Store review, or rejected without a clear reason, right before a planned launch. We find the actual cause, fix it and resubmit with a clear explanation for the reviewer.
- A Shopify or custom store's checkout, subscriptions or inventory sync keep failing at peak traffic. We trace the failures across plugins and scripts, fix the weak links and test the flow under load on a staging copy.
- A studio or agency needs internal tools and automation instead of spreadsheets and copy-paste. We build a focused tool around how the team already works, with permissions so each person sees what they need.
- A wellness brand's membership app was built by a freelancer who stopped answering, and the developer account is in the freelancer's name. We recover the account, stabilize the app and get updates shipping again.
05How a project runs, step by step
- Fixed-price audit. We review the code, access, hosting and contracts, then deliver a written diagnosis with a prioritized, costed plan.
- Secure. Every account and the repository are moved into your company's name, backups are in place and exposed secrets are rotated.
- Fix and build. We stabilize what is fragile, refactor step by step and build what is missing, on a copy of your product.
- Launch and hand over. We publish only after checking, then hand over documentation any senior engineer can pick up.
06How we work with Los Angeles teams
We work remotely and our day runs on Eastern Time, three hours ahead of Los Angeles. In practice that works well: we schedule calls in your morning, which is our afternoon, and much of the build work is already done by the time your day starts. Progress is visible in the Lunarion client app, so producers, founders and marketing leads can check status without waiting for a meeting. We work in English and French.
One senior lead owns your project from the first call to launch, so there is no handoff between salespeople and developers. We can sign an NDA before seeing unreleased products or content. Releases happen on a staging copy first and go live only after checking, planned around your launch calendar. At handover, code, repositories, domains, cloud, app store and payment accounts are in your company's name and documented.
07What shapes the scope of a Los Angeles project
We do not publish prices: every project is different, and the audit is what sets the quote. These are the factors that weigh most:
- Whether the product is a mobile app, a web platform or both, and on which platforms
- Subscriptions, in-app purchases and the payment rules that come with them
- The number of plugins, apps and integrations in an existing commerce stack
- Traffic expected around launches, drops and campaigns
- How much of an abandoned codebase can be kept versus refactored
08Frequently asked questions
Can you work with Los Angeles teams on Pacific Time?
Yes. We work remotely and schedule calls in the morning Pacific Time, which overlaps with our Eastern Time day. Releases and urgent fixes are planned around your launch calendar, and you follow progress in the Lunarion client app between calls.
Our app was rejected by Apple right before a launch. Can you help?
Yes. We read the rejection and the relevant guidelines, find the real cause, fix it and resubmit with the explanation App Review expects. If the rejection concerns subscriptions or digital content, we check the payment flow against Apple's rules so the same issue does not come back.
How does a project start?
Every project starts with a fixed-price audit of the code, accesses, hosting and contracts. It ends with a written diagnosis and a detailed, prioritized quote. For an urgent launch, the audit focuses first on what blocks the release date.
Who owns the app, the code and the accounts?
Your company. The code, repositories, domains, cloud, App Store, Google Play and payment accounts are moved into your company's name and documented at handover. If a former developer still holds an account, recovering it is part of the work.
Can you keep our store running while you fix it?
Yes. We work on a copy or staging environment and publish only after checking, so your store keeps taking orders. Changes to checkout and payments are tested end to end before they reach customers.
Do you sign NDAs for unreleased content or products?
Yes. We can sign an NDA before you share anything, which is common for unreleased shows, products or creator projects. Access to sensitive material is limited to what the work actually requires.
09Other cities we work with
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