Ship your startup MVP in 12 weeks.
Built for funded founders and growing product teams worldwide
Stop burning runway on a slow, expensive in-house hiring round. As your startup development partner we get you the same engineering quality at a lower total cost, ship faster, and leave your cap table alone. You own the code. No lock-in.
Rated 4.9 stars across 24+ client projects. 50+ products shipped, including an EdTech platform now running at 250K+ daily active users.
Why a startup development partner beats managing vendors
An MVP in 12 weeks
We've shipped 50+ products, so we know the trap most startups fall into. They build for users who don't exist yet. Your MVP goes from a whiteboard to a real, installable app in roughly 12 weeks, on a clean codebase you can keep building on for years instead of throwing away after launch.
Stretch the runway
Hiring a senior engineering team in the US or Europe is slow, and it eats cash you don't have yet. As your development partner we deliver the same build quality at a lower total cost, which tends to buy more months between raises. That's a market reality, not a number we'll pretend to guarantee.
Scale when you raise
Start with one engineer to prove the idea. Add two or three when the seed closes. Grow to a full pod after Series A. We move with your funding, not against it, and there are no minimum commitments or contracts to renegotiate every time you change gear.
No lock-in, ever
Month-to-month. You own the source code from the first commit, not at some milestone we hold over you. If you decide to pull development in-house later, we hand over everything and walk your hires through it. That's the whole point of a partner.
How we take a startup MVP from idea to users
Validate the idea
First we cut. Together we pin down the one thing your product has to prove, then strip the build to the features that actually test it. Most founders arrive with a six-month roadmap. We help you find the six-week version hiding inside it.
Architect the MVP
Our engineers pick a stack and a database schema that won't need ripping out at your first 100,000 users. Clean API contracts, sensible defaults, nothing over-built for scale you haven't earned yet. The goal is an MVP you can grow.
Build and ship
Two-week sprints, a working demo every Friday. You see real software each week, not a status doc. We push to staging continuously, and to production the moment you say go. No surprises on launch day, because you've watched it come together the whole way.
Iterate and scale
Once it's live, the real work starts. We tune performance, fold in what your first users tell you, and ship the next features fast. When the round closes and you want a bigger team, we add engineers in days, not the months a fresh hiring round would cost.
Startup app development across web, mobile, and AI
MVP development
Concept to a live product in about 12 weeks. We build the critical path first, the handful of features that prove the idea and pull in your first paying users, and we park the nice-to-haves until you have traction to justify them.
Mobile apps
Cross-platform with Flutter, or native iOS and Android when the product genuinely needs it. One codebase, both stores, and a fraction of the cost of running two separate native builds from scratch.
SaaS products
Multi-tenant architecture, subscription billing through Stripe, user and team management, the analytics dashboard, the admin panel. The unglamorous plumbing every SaaS needs, wired up properly on day one so you're not rebuilding it the month after launch.
AI features
We integrate GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini, and train custom models where an off-the-shelf API won't cut it. Chatbots, content generation, document analysis, automation that actually takes a job off someone's plate. Not AI for the pitch deck.
Web platforms
React, Next.js, and Node.js apps with server-side rendering and SEO baked in, not bolted on later. We hold the front end to a 90-plus Lighthouse score, because a slow first load quietly kills conversion before anyone even sees your product.
APIs
REST and GraphQL APIs built for the things startups actually need them for: a third-party integration, a mobile backend, a partner who wants to plug in. Documented and versioned, so the next engineer isn't reverse-engineering it at midnight.
Engagements that stretch your runway
Every plan starts with a paid pilot sprint, hands you the source code, and stays month-to-month. No annual lock-in. No surprise invoices. We scope the actual number on a short call, once we understand what you're building, because a real price beats a made-up one off a pricing table.
1 engineer
For validating an idea, building a quick prototype, or adding one feature to a product that already exists.
- ✓Dedicated full-time engineer
- ✓Working demo every week
- ✓You own the source code
- ✓Paid pilot sprint included
- ✓In your Slack or Discord
2-3 engineers
For building a full MVP, launching a mobile app, or putting a foot on the gas right after a round closes.
- ✓Full-stack team, front and back
- ✓Tech lead steering the build
- ✓CI/CD pipeline set up
- ✓Sprint planning included
- ✓Architecture written down
4-6 engineers
For post-Series A product work, a platform rebuild, or shipping a stack of features fast without stalling the roadmap.
- ✓A complete engineering pod
- ✓Dedicated project manager
- ✓QA and testing included
- ✓DevOps and infrastructure
- ✓Performance tuning ongoing
Let's scope your startup MVP
Tell us what you're building. On a 30-minute call we'll map the feature set, the team, the timeline, and a fixed-scope estimate, usually back to you within 48 hours. No contracts until you're ready, and you own the code from the first commit.
Rated 4.9 stars across 24+ client projects. 50+ products shipped. One platform we built runs at 250K+ daily active users.