MVP development for startups
Web apps, marketplaces and mobile apps. Start with a one-week plan for $1,900, then a fixed build quote. The sprint delivers features, flows and sketches; a working web product starts at $14,900.
Quote · Rental marketplace (example)
Sample briefWe want a marketplace where owners list equipment and renters book and pay online. Web first, app later.
Marketplace MVP
- Scoping sprintcredited toward the build$1,900
- Listings, search, bookingincluded
- Payments and payoutsincluded
Buildfrom $24,900
Prices
The sprint turns your idea into a fixed price. The build is quoted before it starts.
- Scoping sprint1 week · feature list, user flows, sketches of the main screens, fixed quote · credited toward the build$1,900
- Web app or MVPaccounts, core features, admin panel, payments if neededfrom $14,900
- Mobile appone app for iPhone and Androidfrom $19,900
- Marketplace MVPlistings, search, booking, payments and payoutsfrom $24,900
What the $1,900 sprint gives you
One week. Four things, all on paper. It isn't a prototype and it isn't a demo. It's the plan a fixed price can be built on, and it's yours whether or not you build with us.
- Feature list
- Everything the first version does, in short plain sentences, plus a second list of what it deliberately doesn't do yet. Most founders show up with a long list. The useful work is cutting it down to whatever gets a first customer in the door.
- User flows
- Step by step, for each kind of user. How a renter finds a listing and pays. How an owner gets paid out. What the admin sees when something goes wrong. Flows are where the hidden features surface: password resets, refunds, the empty state before there's any data at all.
- Sketches of the main screens
- Rough drawings of the main screens. Enough to argue about layout and what goes where, nowhere near pixel-perfect. The real design comes during the build, after you've approved these.
- A fixed build quote
- A price, a timeline and the milestones, written against that feature list. Add something later and it's quoted in writing before anyone builds it. The $1,900 is credited toward the build, so the planning never gets paid for twice.
From the sprint to launch
The sprint ends with a quote you can sign. The $1,900 comes off, and the quote shows exactly where.
You approve the main screens first, with two rounds of changes included, and only then does the build go on. Stop before you approve them and you owe the 30% deposit, nothing more; the sprint documents stay yours either way. Once the build is under way you get a preview link (open it on your phone, send it to a friend) and a short written update every week. Want to talk it through instead? Book a Google Meet or text us. Payments usually run 30% to start, 40% at the agreed milestone, 30% at launch. After launch we fix bugs in our work for free for 30 days, and for as long as we host it. Hosting is $79 a month; Care plans from $149 add hours for changes. How we work.
It is your product, not ours
We've heard the stories: an agency keeps the code, or the domain, or the Apple account, and the founder can't leave. We set things up the other way round.
- Paid in full? Then the code, the design and the content we created are yours. Third-party libraries keep their own licenses, same as for everyone.
- The domain, Google Analytics and Search Console are set up in your name. Who manages the app-store and other provider accounts is written into the quote, not left to assumption.
- Moving to your own team or your own host? Once the build is paid in full, we hand over the code and a database copy at no charge.
- Arizona law governs the contract, and all of this is in the contract before you sign.
Products we built
Two that went live. Our builds today start with the sprint, then the preview link and weekly updates. How we work
Find a home and housemates
- Client
- Roome
- Type
- Mobile app
Tours across cities and countries
- Client
- Vizitour
- Type
- Web app
- Roome
- A React Native app with a Laravel backend for students in the UK hunting for a room and people to share it with. Search by campus, budget and property type; listings pulled in from property sources; housemate matching with a lifestyle quiz; university verification; in-app chat with report and block tools; and an admin panel for students, properties and reports. Roome belongs to the client. We built almost all of the app, the backend and the admin.
- Vizitour
- A tour-booking platform in English and Spanish: Next.js in front, Laravel behind. Filters by destination, category, price and duration, dates and time slots, guest counts, packages, transfers, Stripe-hosted checkout with a payment webhook, and a custom admin panel. It started with New York and now sells experiences in several cities and countries.
Development cases that were stopped
Not every startup makes it. We'd rather show these than pretend otherwise. We worked on each during development, and the companies behind them stopped for reasons of their own.
AI-assisted learning workflows
- Client
- UpGrade
- Type
- Web app
Guard patrols and supervisor tools
- Client
- TCS
- Type
- Mobile app
From scooter search to a ride
- Project
- Sckootz
- Type
- Mobile app
- Status
- Development case
- UpGrade
- A learning platform where teachers were to build tests from their own files and content, students would take them and parents could look at the results, with outside AI and assessment services plugged in. Next.js and React for the teacher, student and admin sides. Financing ran out; it isn't live.
- SoloLink, for TCS
- A guard app plus a supervisor admin panel for a private security company. Shifts at physical sites, check-ins, patrol photos and notes, incident and panic alerts, and a review queue for supervisors. React Native on the phone, Laravel behind it. Financing ran out. And to be clear, this is physical security, people walking sites; nothing to do with website monitoring.
- Sckootz
- A React Native app for a US mobility-scooter booking project. Scan a QR code or type it in, find scooters on a map, read the details, start and end a ride through the API. The screens on the case page were rendered locally with sample data. The project was discontinued.
Questions about MVPs
Why a paid sprint before the build?
A fixed price needs a fixed scope. In one week we agree on features and screens, then quote the build. The $1,900 planning fee is credited toward it if you go ahead; the sprint itself does not include a working app. If you don’t, the feature list, user flows and screen sketches are still yours.
How do payments work?
Usually 30% to start, a milestone payment in the middle, and the rest at launch.
What happens after launch?
Once paid, you own the code, design and content we create. Every build includes 30 days of fixes for bugs in our work, and those fixes continue while we host it. Hosting starts at $79/mo; Care from $149 adds time for changes. Or hand over to your team.
Can you build it for $2,000?
No, and we’d rather say so now than take a deposit. $1,900 buys the planning week. A working web product starts at $14,900, because even a simple idea needs accounts, a database, an admin panel and testing before anyone can use it. If the budget is smaller than that, the sprint still leaves you with a plan you can take to a freelancer, or come back to later.
Do I need to know the tech stack?
No. We usually build web products on Laravel with a Next.js or Blade front end, and mobile apps in React Native, so one codebase runs on both iPhone and Android. Already have a stack or a team? We can often work with it; the sprint is where that gets settled.