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A small studio for software that lasts.
XenneX LLC is an independent software studio based in New Orleans. We've been quietly shipping web, mobile, and cloud products since 2014 — apps with hundreds of thousands of downloads, services running across AWS and GCP, and the occasional game that refuses to stop earning installs.
What we do
We build product end-to-end. Architecture, code, infrastructure, release pipelines, the unglamorous parts. The same person who sketches the data model also takes the on-call page when the API misbehaves at 2am — which makes for boring on-call shifts and sturdy systems.
Stack-wise, we lean on what works: TypeScript and React/Next on the web; Ionic and native where it earns its keep on mobile; Node.js, Python, and Go on the server; AWS, GCP, and Azure depending on what fits. We're betting the next decade on AI-augmented development and infrastructure that takes it seriously.
Founder
Buddy Delaune
Founder · Full-Stack Engineer · Systems Architect
Senior engineering manager by day at Leviton Manufacturing, where he leads four teams across residential, commercial, and industrial smart-home applications — a portfolio that ships to over a million users and several million devices. By night and weekend, he runs XenneX.
B.S. Computer Science, Louisiana State University. AWS Cloud Practitioner. Certified Scrum Master. New Orleans native.
How capacity works
XenneX is a senior, solo-led studio, and that's on purpose. You work directly with the person designing and building your system, with no handoffs to a junior team.
That also means a deliberately small number of client projects at a time. If the calendar is full, you'll hear that up front, along with a realistic start date, rather than a yes that turns into a slow project.
Timelines and milestones are set in writing before work starts. Code, infrastructure, and documentation live in your accounts from day one, so nothing is stuck with one person if I'm ever unavailable.
Timeline
- 2014
XenneX is founded
Buddy Delaune launches the studio in New Orleans while finishing his Computer Science degree at LSU. First releases: Cosmic Crush and A Layman's BAC Calculator.
- 2015
Comet ships
A space-arcade game built on Corona SDK lands on iOS and Android. Still on Google Play a decade later.
- 2019–2021
The web era
Redinfinite, WSB Stock Tracker, and Unobtainium ship in close succession — Ionic + Angular + Node.js stacks running on AWS and DigitalOcean.
- 2021
Game Night crosses 100k
A weekend-build party game crosses one hundred thousand downloads on Google Play, still climbing.
- 2022
Dealery launches
An online deal aggregator goes live as a PWA. The studio's first product designed around recurring user value rather than novelty.
- 2024–2025
AI workflows
XenneX shifts focus to LLM-powered tools, AI workflows, and the cloud infrastructure to run them in production.
- 2026
AI Recaps launches
The studio's first subscription product goes live — an AI-powered YouTube summarization service with email digests, Groq Whisper transcription, and an AI Chat feature. Built on AWS ECS Fargate.
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