Markham & Toronto · Software & web studio

Technology that fits how your business actually runs.

YS Progress is a Markham software studio. We turn dated websites, manual busywork, and stalled ideas into practical systems your team can use every day - explained in plain language and delivered by the team that builds it.

The first 30 minutes are free. No obligation, no pitch.

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Our products

We design, build and run our own software. Then we build yours the same way.

Products we design, build and run
7
Live today, with two more in beta
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Open source, under Apache, AGPL and BSD licences
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Web, macOS, Windows and Linux
Web + desktop

01 / 07Flagship · For restaurants

PlatesReady

Online ordering and table booking a restaurant owns: its brand, its customers and its margin, instead of handing up to 30% to delivery apps.

LiveWebAcross Canada

Screenshot of the platesready.com homepage: an 'Available across Canada' badge, the headline 'Stop paying up to 30% on the customers you already have', and the flat 5% platform fee with no monthly fees and reservations included free.
Pl. 01The live site
5%
Flat platform fee, plus standard payment processing
$0
Monthly fees
Free
Table booking, included

02 / 07Email infrastructure

Spoolway

Proof of what happened to every email your product sends.

An email control plane in front of the mail server you already pay for, whether that is your own SMTP, SES, Mailgun or Postmark. Central templates, per-application attribution and an encrypted, searchable archive. It never sends on your behalf: your transport, your reputation, your data.

LiveWebMulti-tenant

Screenshot of the spoolway.com homepage: the headline 'We don't send your email. We prove what happened to it.' and the line about keeping the mail server you already have, or SES, Mailgun or Postmark.
Pl. 02The live site

Also from the studio

  1. Screenshot of the illustrative demo dashboard on the spooled.cloud homepage, marked as demo data: enqueued, running, completed and dead-letter counts, a queue activity chart and recent jobs.
    Pl. 03Dashboard demo

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    Spooled

    A job queue and workflow control plane on PostgreSQL. It persists, claims, retries and observes the background work your app depends on.

    LiveOpen source, Apache-2.0Hosted or self-hosted

  2. Screenshot of the illustrative pull-request check on gitalert.com: build and unit tests pass, and GitAlert labels the change 'Worth a closer look' with three findings: a weakened test assertion, a misspelled package and a changed CI workflow file.
    Pl. 04Example check

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    GitAlert

    An independent check on every pull request, including the ones AI agents open: one plain label with file-and-line evidence, and never a blocked merge.

    BetaGitHub appFree for public repositories

  3. Screenshot of the keymano editor: modifier and edit toolbars above a full clickable keyboard for a US layout.
    Pl. 05Layout editor

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    keymano

    A keyboard-layout editor for macOS layouts and bundles, with a live, clickable keyboard and an interface in 24 languages.

    LiveOpen source, Apache-2.0macOS, Windows, Linux and web

  4. Screenshot of the dashboard preview on the opn.onl homepage: an example campaign URL shortened to opn.onl/spring, with click, today and country counts and a bar chart.
    Pl. 06Dashboard preview

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    opn.onl

    A privacy-first link shortener you own: custom short links, branded QR codes and click analytics, with an API and an MCP server.

    LiveOpen source, AGPL-3.0Self-hostable

  5. Screenshot of Stedding Browser's welcome flow: the 'Light or dark' step with Follow the system, Light and Dark options and five Space colours.
    Pl. 07Welcome flow

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    Stedding Browser

    An open-source, Arc-style browser built on Chromium, with vertical tabs, Spaces and a command bar.

    Folders and pinned tabs in the sidebar, one-click import from Arc on the Mac, and no telemetry.

    BetaOpen source, BSD-3-ClausemacOS (Apple silicon) and Windows

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What we do

Practical technology help for real business problems.

Four ways we tend to help. Most projects start with one and grow from there - at a pace and budget that makes sense for a local business.

  1. Websites that earn trust before the phone rings

    Fast, credible, easy-to-update sites for service businesses, trades, restaurants and growing local teams - sharp to look at and built to bring in real enquiries.

    DesignBuildSpeed & SEO basicsContact flowsOngoing care

  2. Custom software shaped around your workflow

    Internal tools that match how your team actually works instead of forcing them into someone else's template - dashboards, booking, admin, reporting and client portals.

    DashboardsBookingAdmin systemsReportingPortals

  3. Integrations that stop the copy-and-paste

    Your existing tools, finally talking to each other. We connect forms, data, payments and CRMs so staff stop moving information around by hand.

    APIsAutomationData syncCRM handoffsPaymentsEmail

  4. Web & mobile apps with a clear first version

    Honest scoping so the first release solves the right problem - then planning, design, build and launch support to get it into people's hands.

    ScopingDesigniOS & AndroidWeb appsLaunch support

Not sure which fits? The first 30 minutes are free.

Book a free consultation

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Restaurant solutions

A whole team for restaurants.

Restaurants are a big part of what we do. We have built the tools, run a kitchen ourselves, and know exactly where the money leaks. Most clients start with a website and grow into the rest, including PlatesReady, our own platform for the ordering and reservations a restaurant actually owns.

See our restaurant workExplore PlatesReady
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Sites that convert

Fast, bookable, SEO-first websites that bring in real orders, not just compliments.

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Direct ordering & delivery

Your own ordering through PlatesReady, plus Uber Eats, DoorDash and Skip set up to work for you.

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Kitchen & POS

Thermal receipt printing, order managers and tablet workflows that survive a real dinner rush.

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Data & analysis

Order, customer and sales data stored and analysed so you can see what is actually working.

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Opening a business

Practical help standing up the tech for a new spot, from menus to payments to launch day.

Yevhen Salitrynskyi from YS Progress

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The team behind it

A team that builds it, and stands behind it.

YS Progress is a Markham studio led by people who build the work directly. Our team has shipped everything from one-page restaurant sites to the infrastructure behind our own products. You work with the people doing the work — not a sales rep, and not a faceless queue.

Yevhen SalitrynskyiYS Progress Inc. · Toronto

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Start here

Book your free 30-minute consultation.

No obligation and no pitch deck. Tell us what you are trying to fix or build, and you will get a plain, honest answer about options, likely effort, and sensible next steps.

How we work, step by step

Step 01

Understand the business

We map what is broken, what matters, and what should stay simple before touching code.

Step 02

Agree the right shape

A practical plan in writing: scope, timeline, risks, and what each choice costs.

Step 03

Build in useful pieces

Work ships in visible increments, with check-ins before decisions get expensive.

Step 04

Launch & keep it healthy

Deployment, handoff, training and fixes stay part of the work, not an upsell.

Tell us what you are trying to fix or build and you will get a plain, honest reply, usually the next business day. Every message reaches us directly.

  • Free 30-minute consultation
  • Reply within one business day
  • Based in Markham & Toronto
  • Fixed-scope quotes, no surprise invoices

Every message reaches us directly, with a reply usually the next business day.

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Serving businesses across the GTA.