SaaS, MVP Development
Validate the idea fast, then engineer it to scale without painful rewrites.
Usually enters at the build stage.
- SaaS Development
- MVP Development
- Software Quality Assurance
What it covers.
The first release is small enough to test with real users and built on foundations the full product keeps. Sign-up, billing and analytics are in from day one, so you can see what customers actually do.
An MVP has one job: to find out whether people want the thing, before you have spent the budget finding out. That means it has to be small — one core workflow, done properly — and it has to be in front of real users in weeks rather than quarters.
What it must not be is disposable. Almost every expensive rewrite we have been called in to fix began as a prototype whose data model was decided by whoever built the first screen. So the first release runs on the same stack, the same schema and the same deployment setup the full product will keep. What we leave out is features, never foundations.
Sign-up, billing if you charge, and product analytics go in from the start. Not because an MVP needs polish, but because without them you cannot answer the only question that matters after launch: who came back, and what did they do? A validated idea with no instrumentation is still a guess.
Who it’s for
- Founders with a clear problem and a real audience who need something in front of users this quarter.
- Companies launching a new product line separately from the systems that run the existing business.
- Teams whose internal tool has outgrown spreadsheets and needs to become software other people can use.
What you get.
Every engagement ends with these in your hands, in your accounts, under your ownership.
- 01
A working product, deployed
One core workflow end to end, running on infrastructure in your own accounts from the first day.
- 02
Accounts, billing and permissions
Sign-up, subscriptions or one-off payments, and rules about who can see which record — the last of these is what turns a prototype into something you can sell.
- 03
Product analytics wired in
Events on the actions that matter, so you can see activation, return visits and where people drop out.
- 04
A release pipeline and tests
Shipping is one reviewed action, with automated tests on the paths that would embarrass you if they broke.
Built with
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Stripe
- AWS, Google Cloud and Vercel
- Playwright
How it runs from brief to launch
SaaS, MVP Development follows the same four steps as every discipline here, so adding another one later changes nothing about how you work with us.
- 01
Tell us the outcome
One conversation covers every discipline involved, so you explain the business once, to the people who would do the work.
- 02
Get a written plan
The plan names who does what, in what order and what each part costs, before any of the work starts.
- 03
One team delivers it
Designers, engineers and QA work from the same plan in the same channel, so handoffs happen inside the team.
- 04
We stay after launch
The people who built it keep it running, report on how it performs and keep improving it.
Work in this discipline
Projects where saas, mvp development was one of the disciplines on the plan.
Questions we get asked
The ones that come up in the first call. Anything else, ask us directly.
How small is an MVP?
Small enough to put in front of real users in six to ten weeks: one core workflow, sign-up, billing if you charge, and the analytics to see whether it is used.
Will we have to rebuild it later?
No. The first release runs on the same stack, data model and deployment setup the full product keeps. What we leave out is features, not foundations.
Who owns the code?
You do, from the first commit. The repository sits in your account and every deployment runs on infrastructure in your name.
How do you price a build?
Fixed price for a defined scope, monthly for an ongoing team. Either way the written plan names the price before any work starts.
What do you need from us during the build?
One person who can make decisions quickly, for roughly an hour a week. You get a working build each week; what we need back is which direction to take next, not a written specification.