Custom software, built and run from San Diego.
A local software company that stays
Plenty of San Diego businesses have been burned by the usual options: an agency that vanished after launch, an offshore team that needed a project manager they didn't have, a freelancer who stopped answering. We built Ecliptic Ideas as the alternative. A small client roster, senior engineers, and partnerships measured in years - our longest began in 2016.
We work with companies across San Diego County on their clock and in their time zone, with the local context an out-of-market vendor has to be taught.
What we build
Production-grade software on proven technology: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, React, and React Native, deployed on Render or AWS.
Web Applications
Full products built on Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL: customer portals, marketplaces, internal tools, and the platforms businesses actually run on.
Mobile Applications
iOS and Android apps built with React Native, sharing logic with your web platform so features ship everywhere at once.
E-commerce Platforms
We have run the technical side of an 8-figure e-commerce company for nearly a decade. Storefronts, fulfillment integrations, and the operations tooling behind them.
Integrations & Automation
Connecting the systems your business already uses - payments, shipping, CRMs, ERPs - and automating the workflows your team does by hand.
Analytics & Dashboards
Data pipelines and reporting your operators can trust. We own an analytics SaaS ourselves, so this is home turf.
Ongoing Maintenance
Every build comes with the option of staying: upgrades, security patches, monitoring, and new features under one retained partnership.
Work you can inspect
No hypotheticals. These are long-running client engagements with the details written up.
Wine Spies
An industry-leading wine e-commerce platform. We've run the technical side since 2016 - new features, performance tuning, and keeping the platform ahead of the competition.
View case study →BIP Visualized
A HIPAA-compliant platform that transforms complex behavior intervention plans into visual, actionable tools. We built it from scratch and continue to run the technical side as the company grows.
View case study →Dessy Partner Program
A headless bridesmaid e-commerce platform - one Rails app syncing thousands of orders and products across dozens of Shopify stores. We architected and built it from scratch.
View case study →Sunscreen
A digital solution to a paper problem. We built the web application and API powering iPad and desktop tools used for managing QA on large-scale solar projects.
View case study →
Local, and on the record
Coronado since 2015
Founded by Brendan Ronan in 2015 and based in Coronado ever since. We hold an A+ rating with the BBB.
Rated by clients, in public
A 5.0 rating on Clutch and a Best of Clutch 2025 award, built on verified client reviews you can read yourself.
We run software we own
We own and operate InsightLeap, the platform behind our Amazon analytics engineering. Running production software of our own means we already know what it costs when a corner gets cut.
Two ways to start
Building something new? We handle discovery, architecture, build, and launch, then stay on as your team - the full process is on our new products page. Inheriting something that already exists? We audit it, stabilize it, and take ownership - see existing products. Either way, the engagement is a retained monthly partnership.
If what you actually need is technical leadership more than hands on keyboards, look at our fractional CTO services for San Diego.
What Our Clients Say
The best part about working with Ecliptic Ideas is the ease of communication, such that they deeply understand your business and work as an extension of your internal team. That is a massive force-multiplier and consistently results in shipping high-quality end products which meet the users better than the competition.
Let's talk, San Diego.
Tell us what you want to build or what you need rescued. We'll get back to you within one business day, or book an intro call and skip the form.
