About LA TechSpace
It started on a ski trip.
On a fateful trip to Mammoth Lakes, California, John and Nana met by chance. John was on a snowboard, Nana was on skis, and neither of them planned on starting a company on that trip. In 2021 they did it anyway, and LA TechSpace is the small Los Angeles team they built to make the tech local businesses run on.
Our story
Our first client was a local gym.
It needed its consultations automated and its online presence built. If you run a business like that, you know the kind of week we mean: the work you’re good at, plus a pile of admin wrapped around it.
We built what the gym needed, and word got around. That’s still how most of our work arrives. Nine in ten of our new clients come from a referral, and there are more than 20 of them now: gyms, CPA and tax firms, real estate offices, production companies and tech companies.
Why we do it
Good tools shouldn't need a bigger team.
The businesses we love working with are the ones people recommend by name. They’re great at what they do, and they’re usually doing it with a small team and no one in charge of the technology.
So we take that job. We build the software that handles the repetitive parts, like booking and follow-ups, a website that gets found, and showing up when someone asks ChatGPT who to call. A small team gets to work like a bigger one without hiring like one.
For startups that are growing fast, we’re the technical team on call for scaling, maintenance and the decisions that are expensive to get wrong.
Why the duck
Say a problem out loud, and the answer often turns up before you finish the sentence.
Programmers call it rubber duck debugging. The idea comes from The Pragmatic Programmer, by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas: explain your code to a rubber duck, line by line, and you’ll often spot the problem yourself before you get to the end.
That’s where our duck comes from, and it’s how every project with us starts. You tell us what’s slowing you down, we ask questions and listen, and more often than not the answer is somewhere in the telling.
Team
The people behind the duck
Send us a message and Nana reads it and replies herself, usually the same day.
John Tran
Co-Founder and CEO
Nanavati Low
Co-Founder
Theresa Nguyen
Business Operations
Jason Truong
Software Engineering
What clients say
Couldn't have asked for a better tech team
I had no idea what I was doing when I wanted to build my website. But, when I came across LA TechSpace, I knew I made the right decision. They were understanding of my budget and provided different options that I could afford to still have an awesome landing page. They were also very detail-oriented and kept everything on schedule and even finished everything ahead of schedule. I couldn't have asked for service and am still constantly referring people to work with them.
Kevin MatuaFounder of MadeByMatua (opens in a new tab)On the side
We also wrote a children's book.
Our cousin in Singapore has an eight-year-old, Vea, who asked her one day: “Mommy, what is AI?” Her mum brought the question to us, since building AI is what we do all day. There’s no good one-sentence answer, so John and Nana wrote a story instead.
It became Think Like Trixie, a book for kids about how AI thinks.
Your turn
Say it out loud.
Most problems get clearer the moment you describe them. Tell Nana, our co-founder, what you’d like to fix, and she’ll tell you what it’ll take.
She replies to everything herself. Usually same day.