Xsphere was founded in 2021 with a small core team and a vision that was, in retrospect, far less specific than the one we have now. This is a short account of how the last four years actually went.
2021 — Foundation
We formed the core team and started on the thing every new software house starts on: figuring out what kind of company we wanted to be. Client work or products? Generalists or specialists? We answered those questions slowly, and mostly by doing.
2022 — Choosing a hard problem
We began the architecture and development of Fary, a ride-hailing and logistics platform. Choosing mobility was choosing difficulty on purpose. It is a domain with real-time constraints, real-world failure modes, and no way to fake quality — either a rider gets a car or they do not.
2023 — Fary v1 in Yangon
We released Fary v1 and launched operations in Yangon. Running a live service changed the company more than building one did. Deploy windows, on-call, and the particular humility that comes from watching real people use something you assumed was obvious.
2024 — v2, and a foundation
Fary v2 shipped with substantial performance and usability work. The same year we established the Parent Hand Foundation, focused on supporting children with cancer.
2025 — Mandalay and what is next
We rolled Fary v2 out to Mandalay, and began work on products beyond the ones we had — including early exploration into robotics, which takes Xsphere past the screen and into hardware for the first time.
What we learned
The thing nobody tells you is how much of building a software house is building the house rather than the software. The engineering was the part we knew how to do. Hiring well, saying no to the wrong work, and keeping quality steady while growing were the genuinely hard parts, and we are still learning all three.