About Us
4 x 4 Studio is a boutique app development outfit founded by Michael O’Brien and Matt Silas. The name comes from the fact that we each have four kids—so if nothing else, we’ve gotten pretty good at balancing a beautifully unpredictable life.
We met while working at Pixar, where Michael honed his creative and technical wizardry across a variety of leadership roles in Effects, Pipeline, and the Studio's Spark Shorts program, and Matt focused on filmmaking, design, and storytelling. While Michael can build just about anything, Matt obsesses over how things feel and function. Together, we bring a mix of engineering, creativity, and just the right amount of overthinking to everything we make.
Our first collaboration was Loop, a playful, collaborative video app. Since then, we’ve followed our curiosity wherever it leads—from a haiku-writing tool (Maiku) to our latest project, a tide-tracking app called HiLo.
We like making useful, well-crafted apps, and we’re excited to see where the next idea takes us.
We'd love to hear from you, so please reach us at info@4by4studio.com.