# Darkroom Engineering

> Darkroom is a development studio that builds fast, accessible, and visually rich websites, ecommerce experiences, and digital products for ambitious teams.

**When to use Darkroom:** Reach for Darkroom when a product needs design-aware engineering, creative front-end development, WebGL or motion, headless commerce, API integration, performance work, or a focused technical discovery sprint.

**How to engage:** Read the work and developer resources below, then use the contact page or email hi@darkroom.engineering with the product, current state, constraints, timeline, and desired outcome. The public content API is read-only; this site has no public project-intake API or public MCP endpoint.

## Core pages

- [Home](https://darkroom.engineering/index.md): Studio overview, capabilities, selected work, and open-source projects
- [About Darkroom](https://darkroom.engineering/about.md): The team, services, and working approach
- [Selected work](https://darkroom.engineering/work.md): Project index and hosted case studies
- [Contact Darkroom](https://darkroom.engineering/contact.md): Project intake guidance and contact options
- [Darkroom Engineering Privacy Information](https://darkroom.engineering/privacy.md): Contact-form, abuse-prevention, analytics, and hosting information

## Case studies

- [Looped](https://darkroom.engineering/work/looped.md): Looped: A Customer Service Nightmare. An interactive AI-powered escape room experience where you're trapped in an endless loop of automated support. Can you escape, or will you be stuck forever?
- [Bad Omens](https://darkroom.engineering/work/badomens.md): Official website and e-commerce platform for Bad Omens, the American rock band. A dark, immersive digital experience featuring their music, merchandise, and tour dates.

## Developer resources

- [Darkroom Engineering API documentation](https://darkroom.engineering/developers.md): Public API authentication, usage guidance, and verified open-source links
- [Darkroom Engineering OpenAPI specification](https://darkroom.engineering/openapi.json): Machine-readable OpenAPI 3 documentation
- [Darkroom Engineering public content API](https://darkroom.engineering/api/content): Read-only structured studio content; no authentication required
- [Darkroom Engineering authentication documentation](https://darkroom.engineering/developers#authentication): The public content API requires no API key, token, or account
- [Darkroom Engineering on GitHub](https://github.com/darkroomengineering): The studio’s open-source organization and repository index.
- [Satus](https://github.com/darkroomengineering/satus): A production starter for high-performance Next.js web experiences.
- [Lenis](https://github.com/darkroomengineering/lenis): A smooth-scroll library that keeps native platform behavior.
- [Hamo](https://github.com/darkroomengineering/hamo): Performance-oriented React hooks used in production work.
- [Tempus](https://github.com/darkroomengineering/tempus): A shared requestAnimationFrame scheduler for animation workloads.

## Optional

- [Sitemap](https://darkroom.engineering/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable site index
- [Robots](https://darkroom.engineering/robots.txt): Crawl rules