MVP Development

Turn your idea into a live MVP in 3 weeks — not 6 months.

A senior product studio designs, builds, and ships your launch-ready MVP with fixed scope, a fixed price, and full code ownership. Validate with real users while your competitors are still writing specs.

Your Build, at a Glance 3 Weeks
  • 1

    Discovery & scope

    Lock the feature set & fixed price

    Days 1–3
  • 2

    Design & prototype

    Clickable UI you can test

    Days 4–8
  • 3

    Build & integrate

    AI, payments, auth, data

    Days 9–18
  • 4

    Launch

    Live for real users

    Days 19–21

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Who it's for

Built for people who need to prove it fast

Whether you're chasing a first round or de-risking an internal bet, an MVP gets you real users, real data, and real momentum.

Non-technical founders

You have the idea and the market — we become your product & engineering team and get you to launch without a co-founder hunt.

Idea → live product

Funded startups

You raised on a promise. We ship the version that converts pilots into paying customers — before the runway clock runs out.

Pre-seed → Series A

Enterprise & innovation teams

Validate a new line of business in weeks with a ring-fenced senior team — no headcount, no multi-quarter procurement.

Test before you scale

What we build

One team for every kind of MVP

After 50+ launches we've seen the patterns. Pick your product type — we already know the fastest path to a working version of it.

SaaS MVP

Subscription platforms with auth, billing, dashboards and multi-tenant data — ready for your first paying users.

AI MVP

LLM-powered apps, copilots and agents built around the model — not a chatbot bolted onto a feature.

Mobile app MVP

iOS & Android apps from a single codebase — native feel, push, in-app purchases and offline support.

Marketplace MVP

Two-sided platforms with matching, payments, reviews and split payouts that actually balance supply & demand.

Web app MVP

Complex, data-heavy tools — portals, CRMs, analytics — that feel fast and stay maintainable as you grow.

Internal tool MVP

Replace the spreadsheet. Custom dashboards and ops tools that automate the workflow your team runs on.

How it works

From idea to live in five clear steps

No black box. You get a fixed scope, weekly demos, and a launch date you can plan around.

01

Discovery & scope

We pressure-test the idea, cut to the core feature set, and lock a fixed scope and price.

Days 1–3
02

Design & prototype

A clickable, on-brand prototype you can put in front of users before a line of code ships.

Days 4–8
03

Build & integrate

Senior engineers build the real thing — AI, payments, auth and data — with demos every week.

Days 9–18
04

Launch

We deploy to production, hand over the keys, and put your MVP in front of real users.

Days 19–21
05

Iterate & scale

Ship improvements from real usage — or roll straight into a full build with the same team.

Ongoing
Our toolkit

A modern stack that buys you speed

We pick the fastest reliable path for your product — AI and low-code where it wins, custom code where it counts. You always own everything we build.

Bubble

Web apps

FlutterFlow

Mobile

Lovable

AI build

Supabase

Backend & data

Stripe

Payments

Shopify

Commerce

+ whatever your product needs

OpenAI

Claude

React / Next.js

Flutter

Figma

Webflow

Firebase

Postgres

Vercel

Why Velcod

The senior studio that actually ships

No juniors learning on your budget, no endless discovery, no surprise invoices.

Shipped in weeks

3 weeks to a live MVP on average — because we scope ruthlessly and build with proven tooling.

Fixed scope & price

You approve the scope and the number before we start. No hourly meters, no scope-creep invoices.

You own the code

Full IP and source handover on day one of launch. No lock-in, no hostage situations — ever.

Senior-only team

Product, design and engineering leads who've launched dozens of products work directly on yours.

AI-accelerated

We use AI across design and build to compress months of work — and to ship genuinely AI-native products.

Weekly demos

See working software every week. You're never waiting in the dark wondering what you're paying for.

Engagements

Choose the right size for your stage

Transparent, fixed pricing. Start small to validate, or go straight to a launch-ready build.

Validate

$4k

fixed

1–2 weeks

Pressure-test the idea with a clickable prototype and a costed build plan before you commit.

Start validating

Most popular

Launch

$12k

+ fixed

3–4 weeks

A production-grade MVP in users' hands — designed, built, integrated and deployed.

Scale

Monthly

retainer

Ongoing

Keep the same senior team shipping new features and scaling the product after launch.

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De-risked by design

The 6 ways MVPs fail — and how we prevent each

Most MVP projects don't die from bad ideas. They die from these. Here's how we engineer them out.

01

Unclear requirements

02

Budget overruns

03

Missed deadlines

04

Poor market fit

05

Scalability dead-ends

06

Vendor lock-in

Why not the alternatives

Velcod vs. the usual options

The same MVP, four very different ways to get there.

Velcod
Freelancers
In-house Hire
Traditional Agency
Time to live MVP
~3 weeks
2–4 months
3–6 months
4–9 months
Fixed scope & price
Sometimes
Senior product + design + dev
Rarely
You own all the code & IP
Varies
Varies
Ramp-up time
Days
Weeks
Months (hiring)
Weeks
Risk if it doesn't work out
Low
Medium
High (salary)
High (cost)
Freelancer
Traditional agency
DIY no-code
Velcod
Time to launch
Unpredictable
3–6 months
Weeks (if you learn it)
3 weeks
Pricing
Hourly, creeps up
$50K+
Tool fees + your time
Fixed, upfront
Code ownership
Sometimes
Often locked
You own it
You own it
Built to scale
Varies
Yes, slow
Often no
Yes, clear path
Investor-ready
Rarely
Maybe
Rarely
By design
Proof

Ideas we turned into live products

In their words

Founders who bet on speed — and won

“Built and launched in exactly 3 weeks.”

Eden Founder, Skyscale · USA

“We launched faster than I thought was realistically possible.”

Pamela Landreville Founder, Good Bye Mama · Canada

“Clear communication. Fast execution. No wasted time.”

Ben SaaS Founder · USA
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A Minimum Viable Product is the smallest version of your idea that delivers real value and lets you learn from real users. We help you cut to the core — the features that prove the concept — and ship those first, so you spend the least to learn the most.

For most MVPs, yes. The timeline depends on scope — that's exactly what we lock in discovery. We hit 3 weeks by scoping ruthlessly, designing before building, and using proven AI and low-code tooling where it's the fastest reliable path.

Most MVPs land between $4k for a validation prototype and $12k+ for a launch-ready build. You get one fixed price approved before we start — no hourly meters and no scope-creep invoices.

100%. You own all source code, designs and IP, handed over at launch. There's no lock-in — you can keep building with us, take it in-house, or move it anywhere.

Whatever gets you to validated learning fastest without painting you into a corner. We use AI and low-code (Bubble, FlutterFlow, Lovable) where it wins, and custom code where it counts — and we always architect so you can scale.

You can take it from here, or keep the same senior team on a monthly Scale engagement to ship features, fix issues, and grow the product based on real user data.

Absolutely. We're happy to sign your NDA before the first call, or send you ours. Your idea stays your idea.

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Book a free 30-minute call. We'll scope your idea, give you a fixed price and a launch date, and you'll know exactly what it takes to go live in 3 weeks.

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What an MVP really costs, and the exact scope to launch — in weeks, not months.

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