Deployed or it did not happen
A feature is finished when it runs on the live service and a test proves it. Local branches are drafts, not deliverables.
About
An independent studio with one long-running product.
SpotRecap AB is a small software company in Gothenburg. We build systems that turn personal data into something a person can actually read — starting with the record of what they have listened to.
Origin
It began as one person's archive.
The first version was not a product. It was a private tool built to answer a single stubborn question: what does seventeen years of listening actually look like? Every export the streaming services would hand over was imported, cleaned and put in one place. Then the questions got better.
What started as a database of plays became a taste model, then a chat interface, then a phone client. The parts that survived are the parts that had to survive real use — a complete history, honest numbers, and answers that arrive fast enough to keep asking.
What we do
Product engineering, applied to data.
Alongside SpotRecap we take a small number of engagements where a team already has data and needs it turned into a dependable system: ingestion pipelines, analytics APIs, retrieval and model routing, and the operational guardrails that keep them honest in production.
We work in short phases, publish what is finished, and measure before claiming. That is a preference, not a slogan — it is the only way a team this size keeps a system this large correct.
Principles
Four rules we actually follow.
Phone-first
The product is used on a phone before it is used on a laptop. 380 pixels is the design width, not a breakpoint we react to later.
No silent failure
Every phase carries at least one criterion that fails loudly. “Looks fine” is not a status.
Cost is a feature
A service that is too expensive to leave running is not finished. A measured budget sits next to every phase.
Privacy
Listening history is personal data. We treat it that way.
Data is stored single-tenant, in the EU, and is never sold, shared with advertisers, or used to train third-party models. You can export everything or delete it entirely, and both actions are self-service.
Read the full detail in the privacy policy.
Company
The practical details.
| Legal entity | SpotRecap AB (aktiebolag) |
| Registered office | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Company register | Bolagsverket, Sweden |
| Founded | 2026 |
| Team | Three people |
| Contact | hello@spotrecap.com |
Full registration details — organisationsnummer, VAT number and registered address — are provided to partners and suppliers on request.