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From idea to users in weeks.

MVPs that survive contact with real customers. Boring stack, focused scope, instrumented from day one so you can decide what's next with data instead of opinions.

§ 01The problem

The problem we solve

Most MVPs fail not because the idea was wrong but because the team spent ten weeks debating tech stack, shipped a hello-world, and ran out of runway before any user touched the product. We've built enough MVPs to know what to cut, what to keep, what to fake, and what — counter-intuitively — to do properly the first time.

§ 02Capabilities

What we ship

  • 01Product scoping: cut, keep, fake — explicit decisions written down
  • 02Brand-light design system, clean and scalable
  • 03Authentication, payments, onboarding and transactional email
  • 04An admin dashboard so you can run the business on day one
  • 05Analytics and event tracking from the very first user
  • 06Landing page with SEO foundations baked in
  • 07Production hosting with monitoring and backups
  • 08Post-launch sprint to iterate on first-week feedback
  • 09Decision log for everything we cut and why
§ 03Deliverables

What you receive

  • A live product ready for paying customers
  • Full repository and infrastructure ownership
  • An iteration backlog ranked by user signal, not opinion
  • A founder playbook for what to ship next
§ 04Stack

Stack we reach for

TypeScript
Next.js
Postgres
Vercel · Railway · Hetzner
Stripe
Resend · Postmark
PostHog
Sentry
Tailwind
shadcn/ui
§ 05Ideal for

Ideal for

  • Founders with a strong thesis and a deadline
  • Operators turning an internal workflow into a product
  • Teams who got burned by an agency that built the wrong thing
  • Investors funding a founding team without engineering capacity yet
§ 06Process

How an engagement runs

  1. 01

    Cut to the bone

    Two-day scoping workshop. We write down what gets built, what gets faked, and what gets cut entirely. Everyone signs.

  2. 02

    Foundations week

    Auth, payments, transactional email, hosting, analytics — wired correctly so iteration is fast for the rest of the build.

  3. 03

    Feature sprints

    Two-week sprints with weekly demos. Each sprint ends with a deployable build you can show to customers.

  4. 04

    Launch

    Soft launch with the first batch of users, monitoring in place, a clear feedback intake channel.

  5. 05

    Post-launch iteration

    One sprint after launch dedicated to fixing what real users hit. Then you decide whether to continue with us or run it yourselves.

§ 07Engagement

How to engage

01

Compact MVP

4 — 6 weeks

One core flow, paid users on day one. The smallest thing that proves the thesis.

02

Full MVP

8 — 12 weeks

Multiple flows, admin tooling, marketing site, ready for a real launch.

03

Build + Operate

MVP + 3 months

We build the MVP and stay embedded for three months of iteration on real feedback.

§ 08Common questions

Frequently asked.

01How long does an MVP take?

Typically 4 — 12 weeks from kickoff to a live product. We tell you on day one what's possible inside your budget — and what isn't.

02Will the MVP scale?

We deliberately choose boring technology so it scales. You won't be paying a rewrite tax in six months because we picked something exotic for fashion.

03What if we want to continue building after?

You own everything from day one — continue alone, hire your team, or keep us on retainer. Your call, no lock-in.

Have a problem worth solving well?

Tell us the outcome you want. We'll tell you what it takes — honestly, within a week, in writing.

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