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SaaS & MVP Development
Small enough to ship this quarter. Built well enough to still be there next year.
- Service
- 05 / 06
- Outcome
- From a concept to something real users can pay for
- Core stack
- Next.js · TypeScript · PostgreSQL
There are two ways to get a first version wrong. Build everything, and it reaches users a year late with half the features unused. Build a throwaway prototype, and the moment it works you have to rebuild it before you can grow.
We scope to the core loop: the single workflow that proves someone will pay, plus the unglamorous foundations that are painful to retrofit — authentication, tenancy, billing and a data model that expects more than one customer.
Everything else waits for evidence. What gets built after launch is decided by what users actually do, which is why instrumentation ships with the first version rather than after it.
Signs you need this
- You have a product idea and need it in front of real users
- A prototype proved the concept and now needs to become real
- You are raising and need something working, not slides
- An internal tool works well enough that other companies want it
- Your first version cannot support a second customer
- Problem
- Most first versions either take too long to reach anyone or get built so thin they can't be extended once they work.
- Solution
- A scoped MVP that ships the core loop first — auth, billing, tenancy and the one workflow that proves the idea — on an architecture that can carry v2.
- Outcome
- A product in front of real users early, with the foundations to keep building on it rather than around it.
/What the work includes
How the work actually runs.
Scope is agreed in writing before the build starts, and every stage produces something you can inspect.
- 01
Scoping
The core loop identified and everything else explicitly deferred, with the cut list written down so it is a decision rather than a drift.
- 02
Foundations
Authentication, multi-tenancy, roles and billing — the parts that are cheap now and expensive to add later.
- 03
The product
The workflow that proves the idea, designed and built properly rather than mocked.
- 04
Launch instrumentation
Onboarding, activation tracking and the events that tell you whether it is working, live from day one.
- 05
Iteration
Weekly cycles after launch driven by usage, so the roadmap is evidence rather than opinion.
Typical stack
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Stripe
- Redis
- Cloud
- CI/CD
What you receive.
- Product scoping and architecture
- Multi-tenant foundations
- Subscriptions and billing
- Onboarding and analytics
- Iteration after launch
Straight answers.
- How long does an MVP take?
- It depends entirely on the core loop, which is why scoping comes first and is charged separately if you want it standalone. What we will not do is quote a timeline before we understand what has to be true for the product to work.
- Do you take equity instead of fees?
- No. We work on fixed, agreed scopes so that our incentive is a product that ships rather than a stake in one that might.
- What if the idea does not work?
- That is what shipping early and instrumenting it is for. Finding out in month three costs a great deal less than finding out in month twelve, and we would rather you learned it cheaply.
Other services
Need SaaS & MVP Development? Tell us the problem.
The first conversation is about your operation, not our stack. If a smaller fix would do the job, we will say so before quoting a larger one.