Senior Engineering · 6 to 14 Weeks

MVP Development Company — You'll Be Talking to the Engineer Building It

We build production MVPs for founders in 6 to 14 weeks, at a fixed price, on a stack that does not need replacing when it works.

We are two senior engineers. There is no project manager between you and the code, no team you did not choose, and nobody on your build who is also on three other projects. For an MVP — where the job is making fast decisions with incomplete information — that is the point, not a limitation.

70+projects delivered
Fixed Pricezero billing surprises
100% Codefull code ownership
NDA Protectedbefore the first call
Team Structure

Why a two-person team is the right choice for an MVP

Most MVP development companies in India employ hundreds of people. That is a real advantage for a large, well-specified enterprise build. For an MVP it works against you, and here is the mechanism.

An MVP is a sequence of fast decisions made with incomplete information. Should this feature exist? Is this edge case worth handling now? Is this schema going to survive the pivot you can already half-see coming? Those questions arrive daily, and each one needs someone who holds the whole product in their head.

In a large shop, that person is not on your project. Your requirements go to a project manager, who relays them to developers you have not met, who are billing three other clients this week. Every question becomes a ticket. Every ticket becomes a two-day round trip. Twelve weeks of that is how an eight-week MVP becomes a five-month one.

What you get here instead: the person who scoped your product writes the code. You message them directly. A decision that would be a ticket somewhere else is a two-minute conversation.

What you give up, stated plainly:

01

We take few projects at a time. If our next slot is six weeks out, that is the honest answer, and we will not pretend otherwise to hold the deal.

02

We are not a bench you can scale onto overnight. If your MVP succeeds and you need five engineers in month four, you will be hiring — and section 8 is about making that handover clean rather than painful.

03

We do not build native mobile apps. Responsive web and PWAs cover most MVPs. If you genuinely need native iOS and Android, we will refer you.

If you need a team of fifteen, hire one of the companies ranking above us for this search. They are good at that. We are good at this.
Scope Discipline

What an MVP actually is, and what it isn't

The single most expensive mistake in this category is scope, and it happens before any code is written.

An MVP is the smallest thing that proves someone will pay. Not the smallest version of your full vision — the smallest thing that answers your riskiest assumption.

The test we apply: if your MVP scope has more than five core features, it is not an MVP. It is version one of a product built on guesses, and every guess that turns out wrong is code you paid for and will delete.

What usually belongs in:

The one workflow that delivers your core value

Authentication and accounts

The payment or conversion moment

Enough admin to operate it

Analytics honest enough to tell you the truth

What usually does not, whatever your instinct says:

A settings page with twelve options

Role hierarchies beyond what you need on day one

A notification system

An in-app chat

A mobile app alongside the web app

Integrations nobody has asked for yet

A dashboard of metrics before you have any

We will argue with you about scope. That is part of what you are buying. Cutting your feature list is the most valuable work we do in week one, and it is the reason a fixed price is possible at all.

Validation Readiness

Do you actually need an MVP yet?

Sometimes the honest answer is no, and it is cheaper to hear it now.

!You probably don't need an MVP if:

You have not spoken to twenty potential customers about the problem

You cannot describe who has this problem specifically enough to find ten of them this week

A landing page with a waitlist would answer your real question for ₹25,000 instead of ₹2,50,000

Your idea's risk is demand, not technology — build the demand test first

You are building it because a competitor exists, rather than because customers told you something

You probably do need one if:

People have described the problem to you unprompted, more than once

You have someone waiting to use it, ideally someone who has offered to pay

The risk you need to retire is "can this be built and will they use it", not "does anyone want this"

You have a use case you can name, with a person attached to it

We would rather sell you a ₹25,000 landing page now and a ₹3,00,000 MVP in four months than a ₹3,00,000 MVP today that validates nothing.

Delivery Roadmap

Our four-phase MVP process

Structured in tight weekly milestones to minimize risk and eliminate scope creep.

Week 1

Phase 1 — Scope and architecture

We work through what you are building and who for, cut the feature list to what actually tests your assumption, and decide the stack, data model and multi-tenancy approach. You get a documented scope with a written list of what is not included, and a fixed price.

Weeks 2–3

Phase 2 — Design and prototype

Figma prototypes for the core flows. Two revision rounds, deliberately here, where changes cost hours rather than weeks.

Weeks 3–10

Phase 3 — Build

Staging URL from the first week of development. Weekly demos. You use the product as it is built, which is when most founders discover what they actually needed.

Final 1–2 weeks

Phase 4 — Launch and handover

Testing, deployment, analytics configured, documentation written, repository transferred.

Then 30 days of included support.

Product Formats

Types of MVPs we build

Architecture tailored to validate core transaction mechanics and customer utility.

SaaS products

Multi-tenant platforms with subscriptions, roles and an admin panel.

Marketplaces

Two-sided platforms with onboarding for both sides, matching, and split payments.

B2B tools and internal platforms

Workflow, approval and operations software, usually replacing a spreadsheet that has become business-critical.

AI-powered products

LLM integration, RAG, vector search, streaming responses, with cost monitoring and rate limiting built in from the start rather than discovered on the first invoice.

Commerce products

Where the MVP is a transaction flow rather than a catalogue.

Platforms and portals

Customer-facing portals, booking systems, service marketplaces.

Zero Lock-In & Transition

What happens when you hire a technical team

If your MVP works, you will hire engineers. The transition from agency to in-house team is where a lot of startups lose three months, and it is decided by choices made during the build.

What you get at handover, in every engagement:

The complete repository with full commit history.

Not a zip file — the actual history, so your new hire can read how the product got here.

Documented architecture.

Why the data model is shaped this way, what the multi-tenancy approach is, which decisions were deliberate and which were deferred.

A written list of the shortcuts we took.

Every MVP has them. Yours will be documented rather than discovered — what we deferred to keep cost down, and what it will cost to address when you need to.

Deployment and environment configuration, in your accounts, in your name.

Zero intermediate agency layers. Full direct control over production infrastructure.

Standard, unexotic stack.

Next.js, Node, PostgreSQL or MongoDB. Deliberately boring, so your first engineering hire is someone you can actually find and afford.

A handover call with your new team.

Included, not billed. Direct knowledge transfer from the engineers who wrote the code.

We do not hold your infrastructure. Hosting, domain, database and third-party accounts are yours from day one, billed to you. There is no point at which you need our permission to keep operating.

Investment

MVP pricing — fixed, not estimated

Guaranteed fixed price per phase with zero hourly estimation risk.

6–8 weeks

Lean MVP

₹1,50,000 – ₹2,50,000

One core workflow, authentication, basic admin, payments if needed, deployed to production.

Single core user value workflow
Authentication and user accounts
Basic admin panel for operations
Payment integration if needed
Production deployment on Vercel/AWS
Full repository & documented handover
Recommended for Startups
8–12 weeks

Full MVP

₹2,50,000 – ₹4,00,000

Multiple workflows, roles and permissions, subscription billing, admin panel, analytics, integrations.

Multiple core workflows & user journeys
Role-based access & permissions
Subscription billing & invoicing
Comprehensive admin operations panel
Analytics and conversion tracking
Third-party API integrations
10–14 weeks

AI MVP

₹3,00,000 – ₹5,00,000

Everything above plus LLM integration, RAG or vector search, streaming, and cost controls.

Everything in Full MVP
LLM integration (OpenAI / Claude / Gemini)
RAG pipeline & vector search (pgvector/Pinecone)
Streaming response UI & token cost tracking
Rate limiting & abuse protection
AI evaluation & prompt logging

Post-launch retainer: ₹30,000 – ₹80,000/month

Feature development, fixes and infrastructure support while you decide what happens next.

Fixed price per phase. You can stop after any phase and leave with a working product and the repository.

Proven Delivery

Products we've built

Production architectures shipped on fixed budgets and operating smoothly in live markets.

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Government Workflow & Inventory System

TWIMS (UP Irrigation)

Multi-tier statutory approval chain and ledger inventory system built for a UP Irrigation tubewell division — 8 roles, 30 dashboard views, 9-level jurisdiction tree.

21 Mongoose models · Document-driven workflows · Gapless audit trails
Multi-Vendor Marketplace

Online Planet

Multi-vendor marketplace with two-sided onboarding, split payments and inventory across independent sellers.

Live seller portals · Automated escrow payouts · Real-time inventory
HR-as-a-Service SaaS

Kaam Connekt

HR-as-a-Service platform with multi-tenant workspaces and role-based admin.

Multi-tenant architecture · Custom permissions · Automated employee workflows
In-House Operating Product

StaffScan

Our own product. We carry the hosting bill, answer the support tickets and live with the architecture decisions, which is why our advice on scope and cost comes from operating software rather than only delivering it.

Self-operated architecture · Zero maintenance overhead · Real-world battle tested
Founder Questions

Founder questions

Direct answers on team size, tech stack, roadmap pivots, equity, and handing over to your first CTO.

₹1,50,000–₹2,50,000 for a lean MVP, ₹2,50,000–₹4,00,000 for a full MVP, ₹3,00,000–₹5,00,000 for an AI product. Fixed price per phase, and you can stop after any phase with the codebase.

Direct Founder-to-Engineer Scoping

Tell us what you're building

Describe the problem and who has it. You will get an honest view on whether you need an MVP yet, what it should contain, what it costs, and whether we are the right team.

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Response within 12 hours
NDA before the first technical call