Because a company was necessary.
Necessary is an independent software company in Beaufort, South Carolina. We make what should exist and leave out the rest.
The idea
There's a gap between the software people are handed and the software the job actually needs. So they improvise: the spreadsheet that should be an app, the group text that should be a plan, the notes file holding a whole workflow together. Necessary is one developer closing that gap — building the small, specific apps that should already exist.
How we work
Each app is built close to the people who'll actually use it and shipped when it's genuinely useful, not when a roadmap says so. Every feature has to earn its place, so what ships stays small, fast, and focused on the one job it's for.
One Seventy
Our first product is a session manager for photographers — shot lists, light planning, and a timeline the whole shoot runs on. It opens to a small group in fall 2026. See the product →