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An MVP in six weeks.Honestly, this time.

"MVP in 6 weeks" makes a great headline and plenty of agencies promise it. Six weeks is genuinely achievable and we ship on that timeline, but only under specific conditions. When those conditions are not met, six weeks quietly becomes four months and nobody warned the founder. So here are the conditions, up front.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED

  • Discovery & Scoping
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • MVP Build
  • Launch & Store Release
  • Post-launch Iteration

TECH STACK

Next.jsReact NativeNest.jsPostgreSQLTypeScriptVercel

What actually fits in six weeks

  • One core user flow done properly: browse → book → pay, or record → track → view progress
  • Sign-up and login, email plus one social or Apple login
  • A clean, professional UI built from a design system: polished, not award-bait
  • One backend with a real database, ready to grow rather than a throwaway prototype
  • iOS and Android simultaneously, which is why we build in React Native
  • Basic analytics, so you actually learn something from launch
  • App Store and Google Play submission, including the review process

What does not

None of these are impossible. They are simply not six-week items, and anyone who says otherwise is planning to have that conversation with you in week five.

  • Real-time chat or video calls, deceptively hard to do well
  • Marketplace mechanics with two user types, each with their own flows: that is two MVPs
  • Subscriptions with trials, split payments or refund flows
  • Custom AI features beyond straightforward API integrations
  • Social feeds, follows and moderation, which are a product in themselves
  • Pixel-perfect custom animation on every screen

Week by week

  • Week 0, before the clock starts: a scoping workshop where we cut the feature list together until one core journey remains. This is where the six weeks are won or lost.
  • Week 1: wireframes through to final UI of the core flow, with backend foundations and project setup running in parallel
  • Weeks 2–4: the core build. You see a working build weekly, on your own phone, not screenshots.
  • Week 5: the unglamorous part, edge cases, error states, slow-network behaviour, testing on real devices
  • Week 6: polish, store assets, submission, and the review buffer

What we need from you

The timeline's biggest variable is not the code. It is decision speed, yours and ours combined.

  • Decisions within 24–48 hours: a three-day silence costs three days, and there is no slack in six weeks
  • One decision-maker rather than a committee
  • Scope frozen after week 0: every small addition mid-build costs double, in build time and disruption
  • Content that already exists: an app name, a logo direction and legal texts cannot materialise in week 6

If six weeks is not your timeline

If your idea genuinely needs a marketplace, real-time features or heavy custom logic, the honest number is ten to fourteen weeks, and we would rather tell you now than in week five.

Bring us your feature list and we will tell you specifically, and for free, what fits in six weeks and what should wait for version two.

Frequently asked questions

Is six weeks realistic?

Yes, under the conditions above: six to eight weeks from kickoff for a focused MVP, ten to fourteen for a product with complex logic. Add one to two weeks before kickoff for scoping and the proposal.

What counts as an MVP?

The smallest product that lets real users complete one core journey, so you can learn whether anyone wants it. It is not version 1.0 of the full vision with slightly fewer features. If it has more than one core user journey, it is not an MVP.

Do you submit to the App Store for us?

Yes, including store listings, screenshots and privacy declarations. You need an Apple Developer account (€99 a year) and a Google Play account (€25 one-off). We set those up early rather than in the final week, because verification takes a few days.

How long does store review take?

Google Play is typically hours to about three days. Apple is typically one to three days, though first submissions are rejected surprisingly often for small, fixable reasons. We budget a one-week buffer, which is honesty rather than pessimism.

What does an MVP cost?

Scope decides it, which is exactly why the scoping workshop comes first. Share what you want to build together with the budget you are working to, and you receive a fixed proposal covering scope, timeline and price.

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