MVP development
You have an idea and a limited budget, and you need to find out whether it works before funding a full product. We have taken products to launch in months by being strict about scope: a wearable QR product reached both app stores in three months, and the MaxQR marketing platform took about two to three. Shabash is in early access now. A first version should answer a business question without costing a full product.
In each case the speed came from a decision about scope or route, not from working faster.
Cut the build cost, keep the promise
The wearable QR product needed an owner app on both stores. Wrapping a web app as native builds, instead of writing two native apps, is what made three months realistic, and scanning needed no app at all.
Build the idea that sells, not every feature
MaxQR rests on one idea: a printed code whose campaign can change without reprinting. Built on Laravel 13 and Next.js for a client, it includes 14 campaign types, tracked coupon redemption and multi-outlet roles.
Release early, and keep building
Shabash is in a demo and early-access phase while we build it, and that includes the unglamorous parts of a live product, such as verified bookers and rate limiting to protect against booking abuse.
Our usual starting point, which we then adjust for your idea.
What we usually keep
The single flow that proves the idea, secure login, payments if charging is the thing being tested, and enough analytics to read the result.
What we usually postpone
Multiple user roles, native apps where a web or wrapped app will do, custom reports that a spreadsheet export can replace, and automation of tasks you can still do by hand.
What we do not cut
Backups, access control, and a clean data model. Changing screens later is cheap; repairing bad data or a security failure in front of your first customers is not.
Four steps, with most of the money-saving in the second.
What must be true for this business to work, and what would show it? The answer sets the scope, and we write it down before estimating anything.
We go through the feature list with you and move what we can to later. You get a fixed scope and quote, or an hourly plan if the idea is still moving.
You see what works as it takes shape and can change your mind while that is still inexpensive. Handover documentation builds up as we go.
We set up measurement for launch. What happens next depends on what you learn: keep building with us, take the code in-house, or stop spending.
An MVP that works turns into a different kind of engagement.
If the idea holds up, the work moves to software product engineering with a longer roadmap, or to developers on your team through our hiring model. We are an engineering team in India with 3–5 hours of overlap with the UK and Europe; US calls by appointment. The team stays available for founders who want to keep the same people.
Most of our work is delivered under NDA, so many projects cannot be named.
Backend, scan pages and iOS/Android apps behind a t-shirt with a unique QR code its owner controls — text, photo or video, changeable any time, scannable with no app. Laravel. Delivered to both app stores in three months for a Belgian fashion brand.
A dynamic QR marketing platform for a client: one printed code whose campaign can change without reprinting, with 14 campaign types, tracked coupon redemption, analytics and multi-outlet roles. Laravel 13 and Next.js.
Shabash: free salon and barbershop management software we build and market for a client — customer and appointment management, public booking widget and API, mobile app, programmatic salon directory and content on Next.js with headless WordPress.
Timing and cost usually come first.
Describe the idea, who would pay for it and what you already have. We will send back what we would build first and what we would leave out.
We reply within one business day (IST).