MVP Development
A first version scoped to prove one thing, built properly enough that the code survives if the answer is yes.
Scope your MVP ↗
What makes an MVP minimum?
An MVP has exactly one job: prove, as cheaply as possible, that the core assumption behind the business is true. Everything that doesn't serve that test is scope you're borrowing against your runway.
The trap isn't building too little — it's building a demo you have to throw away. We keep scope ruthless but engineering real: security, data integrity, and deploy pipelines are in from the first commit, so a yes means you keep building rather than starting over.
What ships in an MVP build
A scoped hypothesis
We finish the sentence "this exists to prove that ___" with you before writing code, and cut anything that doesn't serve it.
Core user journey
One path through the product, built properly end to end, rather than five paths half-built.
Real auth and data
Accounts, permissions, and a schema you can grow into — the parts that are expensive to retrofit.
Instrumented from launch
Analytics and error tracking wired in so the release actually answers your question.
Deploy pipeline
CI/CD and environments set up on day one, so shipping a fix takes minutes, not a release ceremony.
A written next step
At handover you get our read on what the data says and what we'd build — or cut — next.
How an MVP build runs
Frame the bet
A short discovery that turns your idea into one testable hypothesis, a scoped feature list, and a success bar you agree with.
Design the thin path
Flows and screens for the single journey that tests the bet — enough design to be credible, not a full system.
Build in weekly slices
Working software every Friday, demoed live. Scope gets traded, never silently expanded.
Launch and instrument
Ship to real users behind whatever gate makes sense, with analytics and error tracking already reporting.
Read the result
We review what the data actually said and give you a written recommendation on the next build — including "stop" if that's the honest answer.
MVP Development FAQ
Most MVPs land between $12k and $40k depending on how much of the journey has to be real. We scope and price in writing before any work starts, and we'd rather cut features than pad the number.
The tools we build with
Boring, well-supported choices on purpose — an MVP is the wrong place to be the first team using something.
Frontend
Next.js
React
TypeScript
TailwindBackend & data
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Prisma
RedisAuth & payments
Auth0
Stripe
SupabaseShip & measure
Vercel
AWS
GitHub Actions
SentryRelated work
Related reading
Got one assumption worth testing?
Tell us the bet. We'll come back with a scoped MVP, a fixed first milestone, and the success bar we'd hold it to.