A startup needs to find out as soon as possible whether its idea works. Not to build a perfect product nobody wants. So we start by asking what exactly you need to prove, and build only what answers that.
Sound familiar?
You have an idea, your first interested customers and a limited budget. An agency is offering you a six-month project with a feature list that looks great in a pitch deck. A freelancer would do it cheaply, but you don’t know whether anyone could take it over afterwards. And you’re still looking for a technical co-founder.
Or you already have a product, it’s growing, and so are your worries. Every change takes longer than the last one, and a funding round is coming where someone will look at the code.
MVP first, everything else later
At the start we look together for the core: the part of the product without which the idea can’t be tested. Everything else waits until you know people really want it. The list of features that “would be nice” goes on the shelf for later. Most of them will change after the first users anyway.
The result is an MVP that reaches its first users in weeks, not months. And because we build it with growth in mind, you won’t be rewriting it from scratch in six months. More on how we build applications under web application development.
A technical partner until you have your own
Plenty of startups have nobody who understands technology well enough to make decisions about it. Then the supplier decides for them. Which is exactly what you don’t want.
We can act as your fractional CTO. We’ll choose technologies that won’t hold you back, set up how development runs, and help with interviews when you build your own team. Once you find your own CTO, we hand over the product and every decision behind it.
Code that survives due diligence
Before a big round, investors usually have the technology checked too. They look for technical debt, security holes and dependence on a single person or supplier. Every finding is a question for them and worse terms for you.
We write code that someone other than us can find their way around, and we keep the documentation up to date as we go, not in a rush before the review. The source code is yours from day one, so the intellectual property is cleanly yours. If you already have code from someone else, we’ll go through it before the investor does and tell you what to fix.
With AI, you can have a prototype over a weekend. But code nobody understands piles up just as quickly, and that’s exactly what the investor finds in due diligence.
How working together goes
Send us the idea and tell us what you need to prove. We meet in Prague, Brno, Olomouc or online and go through what you know, what you don’t, and how much time and money you have.
Then you get a proposal: what to build first, what to put off and what it will cost. We build in small steps, so you see the result as it grows and can change direction when your first users tell you something unexpected. With startups, that happens almost every time.
You talk directly to the people who design and build the product. When the direction changes every week, you can’t run every change through three meetings.