Made With Deezle Contact

Independent software company · Founded by Derek K. Frempong

Software built for people the industry treats as an afterthought.

Built so the promises are structural, not marketing. When I make a commitment, I wire it into how the product is made — so it can't be quietly walked back later.

Deezle is my college nickname. The name plays on diesel: the fuel that does the work.

01What I'm building

Three products. Two in development, one ready to sell.

Here is exactly where each one stands today.

  • 01 In development

    Aduro

    A private, voice-led health companion for Black men 38 and older. iOS-first.

    Aduro is the Akan word for medicine.

    Structural commitment

    I couldn't sell your health data even if I wanted to. It stays on the phone. If someone changed the app so the data left the phone, the app would stop building. That's a check in the pipeline, not a paragraph in a privacy policy.

  • 02 In development

    The Crowns

    A reality-TV visual novel — an interactive story you play by choosing — for Black women 25 and older.

    Choose what they see. Choose what you hide.

    The writing is finished. The build isn't.

    Structural commitment

    You pay once, up front. There is no free-to-play machinery built to take money from you a little at a time.

  • 03 Ready to sell

    The Deezle Plugin

    Prompt to product. It takes someone with no engineering background from a plain-language idea to something deployed and working.

    A sixteen-step pipeline: requirements, design, build, security review, cost review, accessibility, legal pages, deployment. Licensed per seat.

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Aduro running on an iPhone. The screen reads: "Welcome to Aduro, an app promoting good health for Black men. Two things we want you to know — We don't collect your data, because it lives on your phone. And, you can leave with your data whenever you want." Below it, an audio player offers the same words spoken aloud.
Aduro · iPhone · build from source
A scene from The Crowns on an iPhone. Janiya Holt says "Y'all, before we toast the bride — there's something the room needs to see." Four replies are offered, each listing what it costs and earns in reputation, receipts and romance.
The Crowns · Ep 4 · design mockup

02Method

How I build is the promise.

  • Quality.

    Nothing ships while a serious known problem stays open. The tooling blocks the release, and nobody gets to skip that — including me. If I can't say exactly what a piece of the software does, it isn't finished.

  • Craftsmanship.

    Every part is here because it earned its place. This page is the working example: it carries nothing it doesn't use, and it runs no JavaScript at all.

  • Aesthetics.

    How a thing looks is part of how it works. Everything I build is designed on purpose — the palette, the type, the spacing, what gets left out. The design says what the words say: nothing is an afterthought.

03Who

Derek K. Frempong

Derek K. Frempong

Sole founder, Made With Deezle

I've been building software for almost thirty years.

I was a Presidential Innovation Fellow under the Obama administration, where I led Lantern Live, a disaster-response app I presented to President Obama at the 2014 FEMA Hurricane Briefing.

I hold five patents.

I'm also a founder and the CTO of ANDI Labs, a separate company.

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04Contact

Write to me.

derekfrempong@gmail.com

The Deezle plugin is built and licensed per seat. If you want it, say so. If you want to talk about something else, that works too.