We're Josh and Hannah. NailTech started with one set of nails that looked great in the salon and awful on a phone screen. It turned out most nail techs have the same problem.
Josh's sister qualified as a nail tech and started doing what every new tech is told to do: post the work. The problem was the photos. The salon lamp turned everything yellow, the flash blew out the shine on a gel finish, and the colour that took her two hours to get right came out as something else entirely on Instagram.
She was doing good work and posting photos that made it look average. Sometimes she just didn't post at all. For someone building a client list off an Instagram grid, that matters more than it should.
Josh had taught himself to code, so he did the obvious thing and started building something. The first version was rough, but it fixed the colour, calmed the skin tone, and made a phone snap look like it came from a proper set-up. That was the whole idea.
Then Hannah joined as co-founder and NailTech stopped being a side project. She worked in the beauty industry before she taught herself to code and moved into mobile design, which meant she understood both halves of the problem: what the app needs to do, and what a nail tech's day looks like when they're trying to fit a photo in around clients.
There's no investor and no wider team. We both taught ourselves to code, we both have day jobs, and we build NailTech in the evenings and at weekends.
Co-founder · Engineering
Self-taught software engineer. Builds the app, the backend and the editing that happens once you hit the button.
Started NailTech after watching his sister, newly qualified at the time, reshoot the same set a dozen times and still not post it.
Co-founder · Product & Design
Self-taught software engineer who specialises in mobile design. Owns product, design and user research.
Worked in the beauty industry before she moved into tech, so she knows what a salon day looks like when you are trying to fit a photo in around clients.
A photo editor built for one job: making a set of nails look on screen the way they looked in the chair.
We'd rather you trust the app for what it does than oversell it.
Your email goes to one of the two people who build the app. A lot of what's in NailTech now started as a message from a nail tech telling us what was missing.
Fastest replyEmail us directlysupport@nailtech.app goes straight to our inbox.Photograph your next set the way you always do and let NailTech sort out the rest.
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