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MVP and prototype
A production core, nothing to throw away. Validate an idea in weeks at a fixed price and deadline.
What it involves
Four things that are really part of the work.
- Scope cut to the bone: one hypothesis and the minimum features that test it.
- A production core with tests and deployment. If the idea works, you keep building on the same code.
- Web and mobile apps from one team, including release to the App Store and Google Play.
- Measurement from day one, so you know whether the hypothesis holds.
When it makes sense
You have an idea and need to validate it with real users or investors. You know what the core is and are willing to cut everything else.
When we will talk you out of it
You want a fixed price for a system meant to last for years, or for a scope that is still being discovered. That is a different discipline: a long-term product with continuous development.
| Long-term systems | MVPs and prototypes | |
|---|---|---|
| Goal | last for years | validate an idea in weeks |
| What gets cut | never quality | scope |
| Model | T&M, hybrid | fixed price and deadline |
How we proceed
After every step you can decide whether to continue.
- 01
Hypothesis
What the MVP should prove and how we will know it worked. Without that there is no point starting.
- 02
Scope and price
A written brief, a design and an estimate. Fixed price and deadline. We write what is out of scope as carefully as what is in it.
- 03
Development
A weekly demo. When time is tight, scope gets cut, never quality.
- 04
Launch
Deployment, measurement, code handover. Then you decide: continue, change direction, or stop.
In practice
Validated in weeks, still running.
- Coronagame: a game built on an epidemiological model over Christmas 2020. 100,000+ players; a static architecture behind a CDN survived TV coverage.
- Belix: a field mobile app and a web admin for documenting insurance-claim jobs. Fixed v1 scope set by a written brief, a Figma design and a 46.5 man-day estimate.
Next step
Does this fit what you are dealing with?
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