Find out cheaply, before you find out expensively.
The point of an MVP is not to build less. It is to learn something specific, quickly, at a price that does not commit you to the answer being yes. That only works if you decide beforehand what would count as evidence. Otherwise you get a small product, a room of people with opinions, and no way to settle it.
This is for you if
- You need something real in front of users before the next funding conversation
- There is a genuine question, such as whether people will pay or whether the integration works, that only a working product answers
- You are considering a large build and want the risky part proven first
- Speed matters more than completeness, and you can live with a narrow product
It isn't, if
- You want the full product for an MVP price. It will be narrow on purpose, and if the scope cannot be narrow this should be scoped as a build.
- You know it works and have customers waiting. Then this is a launch, not an experiment, and it should be built to last from the start.
- Nobody will look at the data afterwards. An MVP whose result nobody acts on cost the same as one that mattered.
What actually happens.
- 01
Write down the question
One hypothesis and the number that settles it, agreed before anything is built. This is the step people skip, and skipping it is why so many MVPs end in a disagreement rather than a decision.
- 02
Cut to what tests it
Everything that does not bear on the question comes out, including things that are obviously needed later. Later is not now, and now is what you are paying for.
- 03
Build it properly, narrowly
Real data, real accounts, real integrations. No manual process behind a curtain: a result produced by a human pretending to be software tells you nothing about whether software can do it.
- 04
Measure, then recommend
Analytics from day one, and at the end a written recommendation to scale it, change it, or stop. Including stop, which is the recommendation that saves the most money.
What you get
- One hypothesis, written down, and the metric that settles it
- A working product in weeks, with real data and real users, no wizard-of-oz
- Analytics wired in from day one, so the answer is measured and not argued
- A written recommendation at the end: scale it, pivot it, or stop
Built with
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Supabase
- Vercel
- PostHog
The outcome
Evidence, one way or the other, before the big budget is committed.
The smallest version of the idea that can still be judged, built in weeks and instrumented to tell you something.
Get a free consultationScope and a fixed price before anything is committed. No obligation to proceed.
No dark periods. No surprise invoices.
A structured engagement from the first call to launch, so you always know what is happening and what it costs.
Week 1 · Discovery
Scope & fixed price
Then, every week after
A working demo.
The ones people actually ask.
How fast is fast?
Four to eight weeks for most, depending on how much of the risk is in an integration we do not control. If we cannot see a route to something usable in that window, the scope is still too wide and we will say so before you commit.
Is the code throwaway?
No. It is narrow, not shoddy: the same stack and standards as a full build, with less of it. An MVP written to be thrown away is one you cannot build on when the answer comes back yes.
Can you take it to a full product afterwards?
Yes, and roughly half do. The rest either stop or take it elsewhere, and both are fine outcomes for an engagement designed to produce an answer rather than a dependency.
What about investors, will this be enough to show?
A working product with real usage data is considerably more persuasive than a deck. What it will not be is feature-complete, and pitching it as complete is the way to lose the room.
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What is the most expensive thing your team still does by hand?
Tell us, and we'll tell you honestly whether software can fix it, and roughly what it would cost. No pitch deck.