Engagements - Launch your SaaS MVP, from empty repo to paying users
You've got the idea, the landing page, maybe a Figma. What you don't have is the six weeks of heads-down engineering that turns all of that into software people can actually sign up for and pay you money to use. Hiring is too slow, and freelancers tend to stall at 70% done. A build hands the whole first version to one senior engineer who ships it week by week until it's live.
- Pre-seed founders
- Non-technical founders
- Solo SaaS
What you'll have at launch
A live, paying-customer-ready SaaS: auth, billing, a real dashboard, and a deploy you own.
- A real account system: sign-up, login, password reset, and email verification that survives real users, not a demo login.
- Stripe billing wired end to end so a stranger can subscribe and you get paid without you touching anything.
- A working product dashboard — the core thing your users came for, not a placeholder screen.
- A deploy you own on Vercel or a VPS, with a domain, SSL, and a one-push way to ship the next change.
How we build it
A build runs 6–8 weeks typical, shipped week by week in increments you review and merge.
Weeks 1–2 · Foundations
We lock the data model, stand up auth and the account/tenant layer, and get a deployable skeleton live behind your domain on day three so you're clicking a real app, not reading a spec. Every decision that's expensive to change later gets made here, with you.
Weeks 3–5 · Core product
The actual thing your product does gets built — the main workflow, the dashboard, the screens users live in. It ships in weekly increments you review and merge, so you're steering the shape of it the whole way instead of waiting for a big reveal at the end.
Weeks 6–8 · Billing, polish & launch
Stripe subscriptions, plan gating, and the billing portal go in; onboarding and empty states get real; the rough edges from weeks 3–5 get sanded. We do a launch pass — error handling, the transactional emails, a staging run — and flip it live.
What's included
- Full-stack build on Next.js and PostgreSQL: App Router, Server Components, server actions, and a data layer that won't need ripping out at your first hundred customers.
- Auth done properly — sessions or JWT, OAuth sign-in, password reset, email verification — not a half-finished login you're scared to touch.
- Stripe Checkout, the customer billing portal, and plan-based feature gating, so upgrades, downgrades, and cancellations just work.
- A self-serve onboarding flow with sane empty states, so a new signup can activate without you jumping on a call.
- Transactional email (welcome, reset, receipts), basic product analytics, and the error tracking you'll want the day something breaks in prod.
- Deploy and handoff: your repo, your cloud account, a deploy pipeline, and a short walkthrough so the codebase is yours to run.
Stack
- Next.js
- PostgreSQL
- Stripe
- Express
- Tailwind
How it runs on the subscription
An MVP isn't a task, it's a stretch of focused weeks — so it runs as a build: the board dedicated to your product, shipping in weekly increments you review and merge. Same flat monthly price, from $6,900/month, most MVPs landing in six to eight weeks. Still no contract and no scoping marathon: if priorities shift mid-build you reprioritize, and you can pause between phases.
Frequently asked questions
- How long does it really take to build a SaaS MVP?
- Most MVPs land in six to eight weeks of focused work. The range depends on how much product there is — a single-workflow tool is faster than something with teams, permissions, and integrations. We scope the first version deliberately small so you're live and learning from real users sooner, then build outward from there.
- I'm non-technical. Can you still build my SaaS?
- Yes, that's a common starting point. You bring the idea, the users, and the decisions; a senior engineer brings the build. You'll click a working app from the first week and review each increment in plain language, so you're never staring at code you don't understand or trusting a black box.
- What do I actually own at the end?
- Everything. The code lives in your repo, it deploys to your cloud account, and you get a walkthrough of how it runs. There's no proprietary wrapper and nothing locked to us — it's a standard Next.js and PostgreSQL app you or your next hire can pick up and keep building.
- Is $6,900 the total price of the MVP?
- No. $6,900 is the flat monthly subscription the build runs on, not a fixed project quote. Most MVPs take six to eight weeks, so you're paying for the months the build is active and nothing more. You can pause between phases, and there's no contract locking you into a total.
- Can we keep building after launch?
- Yes, and most founders do. Once the MVP is live the same subscription flips back into task mode — features, fixes, and iterations on your board one at a time. So the build gets you to launch, and the same setup keeps the roadmap moving after.
Got a project? Let's ship it.
3 spots open. Subscribe today, hand off the first outcome, and we'll ship it in weekly increments. Smaller tasks still usually land in 48 to 72 hours. No call required.