Fixed Price MVP Development — One Number, One Date, a Product You Can Charge For

Starter is $999 and takes two to three weeks. It buys a scoping workshop, one core user workflow built end to end, up to six screens, user sign-in, a PostgreSQL database, deployment on your own domain, basic analytics and the source code. It deliberately excludes payments, AI features, an admin dashboard and a mobile app, because a Starter exists to prove one thing to users or investors.

Professional is $2,999 over four to six weeks, and it is the one most founders need: scoping with user-story mapping, up to fifteen screens, Stripe payments or subscriptions, one AI-powered feature, user onboarding and email flows, an admin dashboard, product analytics with a feedback widget and error tracking, an SEO-ready landing page, a CI/CD pipeline and two weeks of support after launch. It excludes mobile apps, multi-tenant team features and marketplace integrations.

Enterprise is $7,499 over eight to twelve weeks for teams selling to large customers: single sign-on, role-based access, audit logs and data export, up to three integrations such as Slack, Salesforce or HubSpot, a security review with questionnaire support, load testing, technical documentation and thirty days of pilot support. For context, US and UK studios typically start around $25,000 for a simple MVP.

Week one is a scoping workshop. We write down the single workflow a user must complete for the idea to be proven, map the user stories around it, and list what is out of scope. You sign off that document, and it becomes the contract. From that point the price and the date are my problem: if something on the list takes me longer than I estimated, you do not pay more.

Changes are handled in the open. If you want something that is not on the list, I tell you what it costs and how it moves the date, in writing, before doing any of it. You can approve it, swap it for something of similar size, or leave it for the next version. Payment follows progress rather than hours: 40% to start, 40% at the mid-point demo when you can use the core workflow yourself, and 20% at handoff.

Fixed price suits a product you can describe. It does not suit research. If you do not yet know which of three ideas you are building, or the core of the product is an algorithm nobody has proven can work, a fixed quote is a guess wearing a suit. For that stage a one-week paid discovery, or a few hours of strategy work from $299, will save you more than it costs and ends with a scope that can be priced properly.

It is also the wrong model for an existing product with an open-ended backlog. There, a monthly retainer from $500 or hourly work at $60 to $90 is more honest, because the work is a stream, not a project.

Founders is a reputation platform where startup founders earn feedback by giving it. Structured product reviews are graded from 0 to 100 by AI, accepted reviews earn credits, and launches run on public pledges. It is built on Next.js, NestJS and PostgreSQL, with automated tests in Vitest and Playwright, and it had to stay correct when two people claim the last slot at the same moment. MedScribe is a prescription platform for doctors that searches more than 25,000 medicines and prints on the practice's own letterhead; it began as one focused workflow, which is how every good MVP begins.

Contently AI is a social content SaaS that lets a marketing team generate, edit and schedule posts using OpenAI, Anthropic and Groq behind one interface. Each of these started the way yours would: one workflow, one fixed budget, and a list of things we agreed not to build yet.

I work remotely from Bangladesh at UTC+6. That puts me three hours ahead of Riyadh and two ahead of Dubai, close enough that we share most of the working day, and with Saudi Arabia I share the Sunday to Thursday week as well. I am five to six hours ahead of London, which covers the UK afternoon, and ten to eleven ahead of New York, where I take calls in your morning or your evening. Each client gets one fixed weekly call, written updates, and a shared board where every decision is recorded.

The contract is between your company and me, with confidentiality and a full assignment of intellectual property on final payment, and I am used to US, UK and EU NDA and contractor templates. I invoice in USD. You can pay by international bank transfer from any country, through Wise or Payoneer where they are available to you, or by card through a Stripe invoice. If you are not sure which package fits, book a free 30-minute call and I will tell you which tier fits, what I would cut, and what it will cost to run once it is live.