Startups & SaaS

Software development for startups that need to ship

We act as the engineering team for founders who do not have one yet, and as extra hands for those who do. Laravel, React or Vue and Flutter, with the code and the accounts in your name.

  • 50+ in-house developers
  • Code in your repository
  • NDA before you share details
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What is included
  • MVP scoping and build
  • Technical co-building
  • SaaS foundations
  • Web and mobile together
  • Ownership from the first commit
  • Handover and team extension
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The problem

What founders worry about

Founders tend to reach us at one of three moments. There is a validated idea and no technical co-founder. There is a prototype, built quickly, that real customers now depend on and nobody wants to touch. Or there is a small product team with a roadmap twice its size. The need is different each time, but the worry is the same: spending the runway on software and ending up with something you cannot change, cannot hand over or do not fully own.

We work to remove that worry. Scope is cut into stages with a decision point after each. The code lives in your repository from the first commit, and infrastructure accounts are opened in your company name. When you hire your own engineers, we hand over properly. Until then you can use us as a project team or as a dedicated development team. We also build and maintain our own LMS product, so we have lived with the consequences of early technical choices.

  • The scope keeps growing before launch

    Every conversation with a potential customer adds a feature. Six months in, nothing has shipped, the budget is half gone and nobody has learned whether people will pay.

  • No one technical on the founding team

    You cannot judge whether an estimate is fair, whether the architecture will hold or whether the code you paid for is any good. You are trusting a vendor with the company.

  • The prototype became the product

    It was built to demo, then customers signed up. There are no tests, deployments are manual, one freelancer understands it and every new feature breaks an old one.

  • Lock-in to an agency

    The code sits in someone else's account on someone else's servers under unclear terms. When investors ask who owns the IP, or you want to hire in-house, the answer is uncomfortable.

What we do

How we help early-stage teams

We give founders an engineering team with a process built for uncertainty and a handover planned from the start.

MVP scoping and build

We help cut the idea down to the smallest release that tests your riskiest assumption, then build it properly: real authentication, real payments, real deployment.

Technical co-building

A senior developer and a project manager work with you week to week, explaining trade-offs in plain language, challenging scope and writing down each architectural decision.

SaaS foundations

Multi-tenant data model, subscription billing, plans and trials, team accounts with roles, onboarding flows and an admin console, built on Laravel components we know well.

Web and mobile together

One API serving a React or Vue web app and a Flutter app for iOS and Android, so mobile is an extension of the product and not a second codebase with its own logic.

Ownership from the first commit

Repositories, cloud accounts, domains and third-party services are created under your company. We work inside them as collaborators and can be removed at any time.

Handover and team extension

Documentation, tests, CI pipelines and recorded walkthroughs for your first hires, plus dedicated developers who stay on inside your team for as long as you need them.

Typical projects

Startup engagements we take on

01

An MVP for a non-technical founder

From a pitch deck and a few customer interviews to a working product with sign-up, the core workflow, payments and analytics, released to a first group of users.

02

Rebuilding a prototype for scale

A no-code build or rushed first version replaced, piece by piece, with a tested codebase while existing customers keep using the product and their data is carried across.

03

Extending an in-house team

One or more developers join your stand-ups, your repository and your code review process to clear a backlog or own a feature area, with a manager on our side.

04

A companion mobile app

A Flutter app added to an existing web product, reusing its API, with push notifications, offline handling and submission to the App Store and Google Play.

In depth

Building a product while everything is still moving

Stage the scope around what you need to learn

An MVP is an experiment, and the build should be sized to the question. We ask what you most need to find out (will users complete the core task, will they pay, will a pilot customer integrate) and scope stage one to answer exactly that. Everything else goes on a list with a rough size next to it. After each stage you get a working release, the actual cost against the estimate and a fresh decision: continue, change direction or stop. A fixed twelve-month specification written before the first user logs in is the most expensive way to be wrong.

Boring technology, on purpose

Early products die from lack of customers, not lack of microservices. We default to a single Laravel application with a relational database, a queue and a React or Vue front end, deployed to a mainstream cloud host. That stack is quick to build on, inexpensive to run and easy to hire for, which matters on the day you recruit your own engineers. We add complexity when a measured problem demands it. Our Laravel SaaS development page covers tenancy, billing and queues in detail.

What we refuse to skip, even in an MVP

Speed comes from cutting features, not from cutting engineering. Some things are in every build because they are painful to add later: version control with reviewed pull requests, automated tests around money and permissions, a staging environment, one-command deployments, error monitoring, database backups that have been restored at least once, and tenant isolation checked by tests. Things we happily defer include elaborate admin screens, premature caching and settings nobody has asked for.

Ownership and due diligence

Investors and acquirers will ask who owns the code, what open-source licenses it depends on and whether anyone outside the company can switch it off. Our answer is structural. You own the source code, an NDA is signed when you ask for one, the repository and cloud accounts are yours from the start, and we keep a list of third-party packages and services with their licenses. If you have security or privacy requirements from an enterprise customer or a regulator, give us the list and we build and test to it.

Planning the handover on day one

A good outcome for you is often a product strong enough to justify an in-house team. We prepare for that: a readable README, architecture notes, a decision log, onboarding tasks for a new developer and overlap time with your hires. Some founders keep one of our developers afterwards. Others take it all in-house. Both are fine.

Process

Stage by stage from idea to release

  1. 1

    Discovery and riskiest assumption

    We go through the idea, the users and the evidence so far, then agree what the first release must prove. A staged scope and free quote follow.

  2. 2

    Prototype and architecture

    Clickable screens for the core flow and a short technical plan covering data model, stack and hosting, reviewed with you before code is written.

  3. 3

    Build in short cycles

    Working software lands on staging every week or two. You test it, show it to users and reorder the backlog as you learn.

  4. 4

    Release and measure

    We deploy to production, set up monitoring and product analytics, and fix what early users trip over.

  5. 5

    Next stage or handover

    You decide whether to continue with us, add dedicated developers or bring the work in-house, and we support whichever you pick.

Deliverables

What your company owns at the end

  • A working release at the end of every stage
  • Repositories and cloud accounts in your company name
  • Tests, CI and deployment scripts included
  • A decision log and documentation for future hires
  • A clean handover or developers who stay on
FAQ

Questions founders ask us

I am not technical. How do I know the work is good?
You should not have to take our word for it. Every stage ends with software you can use, the code is in your repository where any independent developer can review it, and we explain decisions in writing without jargon. If you want an outside adviser to audit the code, we welcome that.
Do we own the code and the intellectual property?
Yes. You own the source code, and the repository, hosting and third-party accounts are opened in your company name from the first day. We can sign an NDA before you share details. Open-source packages keep their own licenses, and we give you a list of the ones your product depends on.
How do you keep an MVP from growing out of control?
By tying each stage to one thing you need to learn and quoting it separately. New ideas go onto a sized backlog instead of into the current stage. At the end of a stage you compare what was learned with what the next stage would take, then choose. Our SaaS product development page describes the stages.
Can you take over a product another developer started?
Yes. We begin with a code and infrastructure review and give you a frank report: what is sound, what is risky and what it would take to stabilize. Often we add tests and a deployment pipeline first, then continue feature work. A rewrite is suggested only when repair would cost more.
What happens when we hire our own engineers?
We hand over. Your new hires get documentation, architecture notes, a walkthrough of the codebase and a period of overlap where we work alongside them. You can keep one of our developers on the team during the transition or end the engagement once they are settled.
Should we hire dedicated developers or run a fixed-scope project?
A fixed scope suits a well-defined first release. Dedicated developers suit a product that is live and changing weekly, where priorities shift faster than a quote can be rewritten. You can hire a full-stack developer part time or full time and switch models as the company grows.
Which tech stack do you recommend for a new SaaS product?
For most products, Laravel with a relational database on the back end, React or Vue on the front end and Flutter if you need mobile apps. It is a mature, well-documented stack with a large hiring pool. If your product has unusual needs, such as heavy real-time features, we will say so and adjust.
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