SaaS Startups
SaaS Development for Startups - MVPs, Product Engineering & Fractional Teams
Startups have one resource: time before the next round. We ship what's needed for that milestone - and write it well enough that you don't pay for it twice when you grow the team in-house.
What we hear from SaaS Startups teams
- Founder + 1 engineer shipping fast, but losing weeks to plumbing (auth, billing, infra) that doesn't move metrics
- MVP shipped, but the next 5 customers want features the codebase can't absorb
- Time-to-Series-A is 6 months and the hiring funnel for senior engineers is empty
- Founder ICP-coding is killing the founder's ability to sell
- A V1 built in 2023 that everyone agrees needs to be rebuilt before V2 - but nobody has time
- An overseas dev shop delivered something that compiles but nobody understands
Regulation & compliance we work with
SOC 2 Type I → II (required to sell into mid-market & enterprise)
GDPR & CCPA (any EU/CA user data)
Payment-vendor compliance (Stripe Atlas, Paddle, LemonSqueezy for tax)
Subprocessor disclosure (DPA, sub-DPA chains)
Industry-vertical compliance if your customers are regulated (HIPAA, FINRA, etc.)
What we deliver
MVPs that ship in 8–16 weeks and don't need a rewrite at 100 customers
Fractional engineering pods (1 lead + 1–3 engineers) embedded with the founder
SaaS infrastructure bootstrap: auth (Clerk, WorkOS, Auth0), billing (Stripe), email, analytics, telemetry
B2B-ready features: SSO, SCIM provisioning, audit logs, role-based permissions, API
Migration off no-code/low-code (Bubble, Retool, Airtable backends) when scale forces the move
Compliance-ready architecture (SOC 2 audit-ready from day one)
Hand-off documentation and pair-programming with your first in-house hires
FAQ
- How is this different from a normal dev shop?
- We're not a body shop. We staff a small senior pod (lead + 1–3 engineers) embedded with the founder, with the lead in product/architecture conversations directly. The lead doesn't change between sprints. You get someone who knows the product like a co-founder for the duration of the engagement.
- Do you sign NDAs and assign IP to us?
- Yes. Standard MSA + SOW with full work-for-hire IP assignment. NDAs before any discovery. You own the code, the architecture diagrams, the deployment infra, the documentation - everything we produce.
- What if our funding runs out mid-engagement?
- We size engagements in 6-week increments. At the end of each increment you can pause, descope, or continue - no termination fees. We've shipped MVPs to founders who then went and hired in-house with our team helping ramp; we've also paused engagements when a round slipped and resumed 3 months later.
- Can you take over a codebase from another agency?
- Yes, and the first week is always a written audit before we commit to building anything new. We've inherited Bubble apps, no-code stacks, offshore deliverables, and previously-rage-quit projects. The audit tells you honestly whether to extend or rebuild.
- Do you do GTM / marketing / design as well?
- Product design and engineering - yes. Brand design, performance marketing, content marketing - no. We'll point you at people we trust, but we don't run growth campaigns.
Who builds it
Our own team, working from our office in East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The engineers on your scoping call are the ones who build it.
Meet the team