The SaaS development company that quotes a fixed price — and takes zero equity.
You've collected three agency quotes that differ by 4×, sat through two "discovery calls" that discovered your budget, and watched the no-code prototype wobble past its first fifty users. We build the real product — auth, billing, the one feature it actually is — for a number you get in writing before anyone books a call with you.
Software development for startups, priced in runway.
Y Combinator's own guide says a seed is meant to buy 12–18 months. Here's what each way of getting version one built takes out of it — bars drawn to the same scale, sources under each.
Two causes of death. One prescription.
The money ran out before the product earned its keep — every over-scoped month of building was a month of runway spent twice.
Two-thirds of the product-market-fit failures were early-stage companies that never found a market — they built too long before asking anyone to pay.
Both diseases have the same prescription: a smaller first version, live sooner, in front of people who pay — bought at a price that doesn't eat the raise. That is the entire logic of this offer. The canon agrees, as the founders tell it:
Version 1.0 is a date, not a hope.
Custom SaaS development here starts with a cut, not a spec: week one decides what version one refuses to include. The refusals are where the speed comes from — and the product is sharper for them.
Built for the founders the rankings wave away.
The pages ranking for these keywords sell to the already-funded — read their own words on the right. This page is for everyone else: the bootstrapper funding v1 from a paycheck, the owner productizing the service they already sell, the two-person team that wants the seed to buy the 12–18 months it's supposed to — not one agency invoice.
Tech for money. You keep the company.
The market's counter-offer is up there in their own words: build now, pay in ownership later. We sell the boring trade instead — a fixed number of dollars for a working product, and your cap table leaves the deal exactly as it entered. When a diligence associate opens it two years from now, there's no "who is this dev shop with 8%?" conversation.
The stack is chosen for the same reason: Go and PostgreSQL — the most-used and most-admired database in the Stack Overflow survey three years running, in continuous engineering since 1986. Nothing exotic for your first engineering hire to inherit, nothing licensed, nothing that can reprice you.
PRODUCTIZING A TOOL YOUR BUSINESS ALREADY RUNS ON? THAT'S OUR LEGACY SIDE. NEEDS A CRM OR ERP BACKBONE LATER — SAME LOGIN, SAME DATABASE.
What founders ask before wiring anything.
01 What does a SaaS MVP cost here — really?
$15,000–$45,000, fixed, quoted in writing within 24 hours of your note below — no discovery call required to see the number. The ranking pages put MVPs at $25,000–$100,000+ over 3–6 months, one prints "it can start at $70,000," and their own guides price a US agency team at up to $64,000 a month. And honestly: if a spreadsheet, a form tool, or a no-code build can validate your idea this month, do that first — come back when it works and creaks.
02 Do you ever take equity?
Never — not as payment, not as a "partnership," not for select partners. A dev shop on the cap table is a question you'll answer in every diligence call for the life of the company. We're a vendor: you pay a fixed price, you own 100% of what it buys, and if the product makes you rich we'll cheer from Austin.
03 Everyone else says 3–6 months. How is 6–10 weeks honest?
Because of what version one refuses to include. The 3–6-month quotes carry SSO, native apps, a dozen integrations and a discovery phase with its own invoice. Week one here locks a scope where the NOT-YET list is longer than the build list; a senior developer on a boring stack ships the rest without meetings about meetings. Your part of the bargain: decisions in days, not committees.
04 What happens after launch — and what does running it cost?
Sixty days of post-launch fixes are in the contract — first users find things; that's what they're for. After that: a small retainer, or hand the repo to your first engineering hire — it's documented, mainstream code they'll actually thank you for. Running costs are vendor-published, not mysterious: a $4–6/month server, ~$15 managed Postgres, Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢ on what you charge.
05 I'm pre-everything. Will you sign an NDA — and is my idea safe?
Yes, we'll sign. Also, the honest version: ideas are cheap and execution is the moat — the risk isn't us stealing the idea, it's the idea spending six months unbuilt. Everything produced sits in your accounts from day one: your repo, your database, your domain, your Stripe. There is no version of this where we hold something you need back.
06 When is no-code actually the right answer?
When you're validating whether anyone wants the thing — genuinely, start there if it fits. Custom wins from day one when the product IS the software: real billing logic, per-customer data isolation, an API your customers call, unit economics that can't absorb platform rent. The no-code platforms repriced everyone in 2023 and the app can't leave as code — validation is cheap there, but the ceiling bills you later.