Lyon Empire: a one-person product house in London
I build and operate my own products. Lyon Empire is a one-person product house in London; everything below is something I made and still run. None of it is client work.
Michael Chalmers
hello@lyonempire.co.uk · LinkedIn
The register
two ventures, one co-founded studio
Prasso
A directory of yoga, pilates, reformer and wellness studios across the UK, wrapped around a private record of the classes you actually take.
Bubba
A cast object with an NFC chip in it, and an iOS app that locks your distracting apps until you get up and tap it. The app keeps a ledger of every break you take, narrated by a bored devil who records it without comment.
Also: The Reset Rooms, a pilates and wellness studio in Crouch End that I co-founded and that trades today. It is a separate venture, not a Lyon Empire product.
Smaller: two Chrome extensions, both published on the store. Vinted Favs filters and sorts Vinted favourites; Cart Tools for Shopify logs, copies and edits carts and products, and pulls SKUs, for testing themes. Neither is the business, but both are mine and both are in use.
Code of practice
built to code
- Make a lot.
- Start the next one before this one is finished.
- Friction is material.
- Some things should be hard to do.
The road up and the road down are the same road.Heraclitus
- Own the means of production.
- Buy the machine. Learn the process. Build the tool.
- Leave evidence.
- Digital work sanitises humanity.
- Conviction.
- Say who it is not for.
If you try to please everyone, you will please no one.Aesop
- Stick the landing.
- If it needs explained, it doesn't work.
Contact
| general | hello@lyonempire.co.uk |
|---|---|
| founder | Michael Chalmers, LinkedIn |
| office | Lyon Empire Ltd, London, United Kingdom |
| updated | 9 September 2026 · log |
