Rapid MVP Development - Production-Grade in 4–8 Weeks
Most 'MVPs' are either too rough to learn from or too polished to be cheap. We aim for the rare middle: production-grade enough that real users can hate it, lean enough that the next pivot doesn't require a rewrite.
- 1Week 0Scope-cut & risk audit
- 2Weeks 1–2Walking skeleton live
- 3Weeks 3–4Core flow, instrumented
- 4Weeks 5–6Polish & beta-ready
- 5Weeks 7–8Real users, post-MVP plan
Schedule slips first by cutting scope, not by extending the timeline.
What you get
When it fits
- You have a sharp hypothesis ('users in segment X will pay for Y to solve Z')
- You can give real users access within the engagement window
- You'd rather ship 60% of the scope and learn than ship 100% and be late
- There's a founder or product lead who'll make cut-decisions on the fly
When it doesn't
- The team can't decide between five different ideas - that's discovery, not MVP
- No path to real users in the 8 weeks - without them an MVP is just a demo
- Compliance or regulatory work (HIPAA, banking, healthcare devices) blows the timeline before week one
Process
Week 0: scope-cutting workshop and risk audit. Weeks 1–2: walking skeleton live (auth + one core flow). Weeks 3–6: build core features against a weekly demo cadence. Weeks 7–8: beta with real users, instrument the funnel, write the post-MVP roadmap.
Full delivery processPricing
Fixed-price MVPs land between $40–120k for 4–8 week scopes. Equity-friendly engagements considered for venture-backed startups. We'll cut scope to fit the budget - we won't pretend a $40k MVP is a $120k one.
See engagement modelsFAQ
- Is an MVP just a prototype?
- No - a prototype is for testing a UI hypothesis without a working backend. Our MVPs are production-grade: real auth, real database, real deploy pipeline. The point is that real users hit it with real data so you learn things a prototype can't tell you.
- How do you keep an MVP from becoming a rewrite later?
- We make boring architecture choices (Postgres, Next.js or React, simple deploy) and keep the schema honest. We won't ship hacks that can't be evolved - and we won't gold-plate things that shouldn't exist yet. The line is 'no shortcuts that block V2'.
- What happens after the 8 weeks?
- Three paths: (1) keep working with us on a quarterly engagement, (2) hand it off to your in-house team - we include a handoff sprint and a 60-day support window, or (3) wind it down because the data said 'no'. We're explicit about which path the user data is pointing to.

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