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Yorocobu
Yorocobu LLC is an app development company. Its mission is stated plainly: find
holes in niche markets, and build apps to fill them.
The company was filed in Wyoming in 2025. Operations are based in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, and the work is done remotely.
The work spans web and mobile, built on React, Swift, and Flutter, and aimed at
markets that larger developers have passed over. Five projects are in development.
Yorocobu also takes on client work.
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About the Name
Yorocobu means "to have joy" in Japanese. Helping people find happiness drives
everything the company does. That is why it works day and night to make apps that
improve quality of life.
The name comes from 喜ぶ, to be glad. The company mark is the kanji 喜, which
carries that same sense of gladness, and it sits at the end of the wordmark.
The spelling is deliberate. The standard romanization of 喜ぶ is yorokobu, with a
k. The company spells it yorocobu, with a c. That is the correct spelling of the
name in every context.
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Founders
Yorocobu LLC was founded by two people, who share the title Co-Founder. Both are
Morehead-Cain Scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
What follows is everything the site publishes about them. Anything further is
best asked directly.
Ethan Gailushas
Co-Founder
Morehead-Cain Scholar at UNC Chapel Hill, class of 2028, studying Economics. Studied at Keio University in Tokyo. Has lived in six cities across Japan and speaks Japanese at a near-native level. Iowa Governor's Scholar and Cedar Rapids Male Youth Leader of the Year.
Bence Burton
Co-Founder
Morehead-Cain Scholar at UNC Chapel Hill, class of 2031, studying business. State champion swimmer.
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Technology
Yorocobu builds with industry-leading technologies to deliver apps across all
platforms.
Primary technologies. React for modern web applications. React Native for
cross-platform mobile apps. Swift for native iOS development, and SwiftUI for
modern iOS interfaces. Flutter for beautiful native apps.
Also building with. JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Firebase,
PostgreSQL, AWS, Git and GitHub, Figma, Docker, REST APIs, and GraphQL.
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Work in Development
Five projects are in development across multiple sectors:
Email Platform — in development
Family History App — in development
Mobile Tool — in development
Scheduling Program for Institutions — in development
Marketplace Tool — in development
These are the categories Yorocobu has chosen to publish. Product names, descriptions,
and release dates are not public yet. Anyone who wants to hear more as these move
toward release is welcome to get in touch.
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Client Work
Yorocobu takes on client work alongside its own projects, building with the same
stack: React and React Native, Swift and SwiftUI, Flutter, and the supporting tools
listed under Technology.
What a project would cost, how long it would take, and whether Yorocobu has room for
it right now are all conversations rather than published figures. To start one,
describe what you have in mind — Joy can pass it along from here, or you can email
yorocobu.llc@gmail.com directly.
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Contact
There are two ways to reach Yorocobu, and they end up in the same place.
Joy can take the message. Ask her to send something and she will collect it
here — a few short questions, a draft you can edit, and nothing leaves until you
press send. Leave a reply address and it goes with the message so Ethan can answer
you directly; leave it out and the message still arrives, as a note rather than a
conversation.
Or write directly. The address is yorocobu.llc@gmail.com. One address, and
it goes to the founders.
Either route is the right one whether you are a prospective client with a project,
an investor who wants to hear about what is in development, or a partner exploring
something together. Yorocobu welcomes the conversation from strategic investors who
share its interest in building for underserved markets.
Joy is the guide for this site. Ask her anything Yorocobu has published and she
will point you to it.
The name is the English of 喜ぶ, to be glad — so the guide and the company are
the same word in two languages, and 喜 is the mark the site opens on.
She can do two things. The first is answer from a small set of published entries
about Yorocobu and nothing else, which is why she will tell you plainly when
something is not in them rather than guessing. The second is take a message: ask
her to send a question to Ethan and she will collect it right here, draft it for
you to edit, and send it only when you say so. A reply address is optional — with
one, Ethan can answer you directly; without one, the question still reaches him.
What she cannot do is answer for Ethan, promise a reply, or tell you what happened
to a message after it was sent. She is not a person, and she will say so if you ask.
Joy can send a message from any page. If you would rather write directly, the address is yorocobu.llc@gmail.com.