MVP development services from idea to first users
Boffin Coders offers MVP development services for founders and business owners who need a first version of their product that real users can try. You bring the idea. We scope the one job it has to do, build it as a web app or a mobile app in your own accounts and repository from the first commit, and invoice each milestone after you have seen it working. Eleven apps of our own, all built in Flutter, went from idea to store review with the same team.
- Your accounts from the first commit
- Invoiced after you see each milestone
- NDA before scoping
Building an MVP for a client of your agency? We build it under your brand.
What should you check before hiring an MVP development company?
Check that the MVP development company has taken a product from an idea to real users, and that you can open the result yourself. Boffin Coders has eleven apps of its own, all built in Flutter, ten on Google Play and eight on the App Store, each taken from idea to store review. The team is 18 people, building since 2017, rated 4.9 across 20 reviews on Clutch and GoodFirms.
PDF Toolkit
Our own app · Flutter · Google Play and App Store
Scan, merge, compress, convert and protect PDFs on the phone. Text recognition runs on the device, so a scanned document is never uploaded anywhere.
PinShot GPS Camera
Our own app · Flutter · Google Play and App Store
Photos and videos stamped with the location, address, date and time. The camera, the location and a video overlay are applied on the phone while the file is processed.
Gurbani Sagar
Our own app · Flutter · Google Play and App Store
Daily prayers to read in several languages and scripts. Long texts in more than one script, typeset to be comfortable on a small screen.
IELTS Builder
Client work · running with the client
A computer-delivered mock exam platform for a coaching institute, built when IELTS stopped offering the paper-based test. A teacher approves every AI-drafted grade, and it took 4,584 module submissions in a thirty-day window.
Each project page links the store listings, so you can install an app before you book a call. Much of our client work sits under NDA, so we walk you through the rest of it on a call.
What should an MVP include?
An MVP should include the one job a first user comes for, done from start to finish, plus only what that job cannot work without: sign-in if accounts matter, payment if it charges, an admin screen if your team runs it, and a way to see whether people use it. Boffin Coders writes that list into the scope before any code, and everything else waits for version two.
The one job, start to finish
One kind of user doing one task all the way through: a booking made, a document scanned, a report sent. If a stranger can finish that path without help, the idea is being tested. Everything else on the screen is there to serve it.
Sign-in, only if accounts matter
Many first versions need no accounts at all. When yours does, it uses the framework’s standard sign-in, password resets and roles, so the next developer recognises the pattern straight away.
Payment through the provider’s checkout
If the product charges from the first day, payment runs through the provider’s own hosted checkout, so card numbers never touch your server. Purchases inside a mobile app go through the store platform.
An admin screen your team can run
A plain screen where your team sees new sign-ups, corrects a record or answers a request without asking a developer. Not a full back office, only what the first weeks need.
A way to see what users do
Analytics on the one action that proves the idea, and crash reporting switched on before launch, so the first weeks give you facts about real use instead of opinions.
A launch people can reach
A live web address, or a listing in both stores with the privacy details, data-safety answers and support contact the stores ask for before they approve an app.
What waits for version two: a second kind of user, settings nobody has asked for yet, extra sign-in options, detailed reports and any feature a first user did not need. Leaving them out keeps the first version short and its cost down, and what real users do tells you which of them to build next.
How long does an MVP take?
A first version that people can sign in to and use typically takes eight to twelve weeks with Boffin Coders. You see the first working screen on a staging link in your own accounts inside the first month. A mobile MVP adds store review at the end, and a rejection usually costs days, not weeks.
Weeks 1-2
Scope the one job
We write down who the first user is, the one task they come for and what the first version leaves out. Each part is priced as its own line, so you see what drives the cost.
Two-week milestones
Build in your accounts
Code goes into your repository from the first commit. A second engineer reviews every pull request, and each finished part reaches a staging link or your phone.
End of each milestone
Review, then the invoice
You use what was built before anything is billed. The invoice for a milestone follows after you have seen it working, never before the work.
Launch week
Launch to the store or the web
A web MVP goes live on your domain. A mobile MVP is submitted from your own store accounts, and we answer the reviewers if a question comes back.
After launch
Measure, then the next version
You watch the one action from the scope. What real users do decides version two, not the first wish list.
The time grows with each system the MVP has to talk to, such as a CRM, a payment provider or a booking calendar, and with each extra kind of user. Opening the Apple and Google developer accounts takes a day or two for a company, so it starts in the first week.
What does an MVP cost?
An MVP from Boffin Coders starts at US$4,000, scoped once in writing, with each integration, payment flow and store submission as its own line. Work by the hour is billed at US$18-38 an hour for a web MVP and US$20-38 an hour for a mobile one, by seniority. You are invoiced after you see each milestone, never before the work, so the first payment follows the first thing you can use.
Systems it talks to
Each system the MVP connects to, such as a CRM, a calendar or an accounting tool, is scoped against its own documentation and priced as a separate line.
One store or both
A Flutter MVP gives you the iOS and the Android app from one codebase, so you do not pay for two apps. Each store submission is still listed on its own.
Accounts and payments
Sign-in, roles and payments add work and testing. Leaving them out of a first version, where the idea allows it, is the quickest saving in the scope.
The admin side
A screen for your own team can be as large as the screens your users see. Keeping it to what the first weeks need keeps the first invoice small.
Should your MVP be a web app or a mobile app?
Start with a web app when your first users sit at a desk or arrive from a link, and with a mobile app when the one job needs the camera, location, offline use or a notification. Boffin Coders builds both: web MVPs on Next.js and Node.js, mobile MVPs in Flutter, with one codebase for iOS and Android. If you are unsure, a web version is quicker to change.
| Web app first | Mobile app first | |
|---|---|---|
| Choose it when | Your users work at a desk, or the product is a portal, a dashboard or a marketplace. | The one job needs the camera, location, offline use or a notification. |
| How a first user reaches it | A link. Nothing to install. | A store listing, then an install. |
| Shipping a change | Live as soon as it is merged and checked. | A store release for code changes, usually a day or two. |
| Before launch | A domain and hosting in your accounts. | Apple and Google developer accounts in your company’s name, then store review. |
| Built with | Next.js, Node.js and TypeScript. | Flutter and Dart, one codebase for iOS and Android. |
| Work you can open | IELTS Builder, a live exam platform for a client. | Eleven apps of our own, all built in Flutter. |
Many products later need both: a web app for the people who run the service and a mobile app for the people who use it. The detail of each is on the pages about how we build web applications and how we build mobile apps.
What do you own at the end of an MVP build?
You own everything, from the first commit, not only at the end. With Boffin Coders the repository, the hosting, the store listings and every third-party account are opened in your name, and we are added as members. If you part ways with us, nothing has to be transferred, because nothing was ever ours. That includes the designs and the written scope.
The code
In a repository under your GitHub or GitLab organisation. You see every commit as it lands and can remove our access whenever you choose.
The accounts
Hosting, domain, email, payment provider and your App Store and Google Play developer accounts, all in your company’s name. Opening the two store accounts is the one thing you do yourself.
The designs and the scope
The screens, the written scope and the reason behind each decision, kept where the next developer will look for them.
A README that runs
Instructions that let a developer who has never seen the project run it in an hour, so anyone you hire can carry on.
What happens after your MVP launches?
After launch you watch the one action the MVP was built to test, fix what real users find and decide what version two should be. Boffin Coders stays on for the first round of real users. From there you choose: small fixes by the hour, a developer by the month, a team that owns the product, or your own developers, who start from a repository they already hold.
Fix what real users find
The first weeks show problems no test did. Crash reports are read and fixed, and small changes are billed by the hour at the published rate.
A developer by the month
When the product keeps changing, a dedicated developer works only on it, in your tools, with a month’s notice either way.
A team that owns the product
A product past its MVP that needs an owner rather than extra hands moves to a software development retainer: architecture, roadmap, releases and incidents.
Your own team takes over
Nothing has to be handed over, because the code and the accounts are already yours. We write the notes your developers need to carry on.
Can an agency buy an MVP build under its own brand?
Yes. Agencies buy MVP builds from Boffin Coders white-label: the work goes out under the agency’s brand and into the client’s repository, we sign a non-solicitation clause before scoping, and we do not contact the client unless the agency asks us to. The agency sees the work before it pays. See how it runs for white-label app development and for white-label web application development.
Published, not quoted on the call
In USD. Hourly and monthly rates move with the stack and the seniority, from a junior on routine work to a senior on complex builds. Nothing is quoted outside them, and if the number does not work for you, you have saved yourself a meeting.
- An MVP starts at
- US$4,000
- Scoped once, with the lines shown.
- Short pieces of work
- US$18-38 an hour
- By seniority and the work.
- A developer by the month
- From US$3,000 a month
- Month to month, a month’s notice either way.
- Agency sprint
- US$2,000 per two-week sprint
- Under your brand, invoiced after you see the work.
Questions founders ask about MVP development services
The questions that come up on the first call, answered here so the call can be about your product.
MVP stands for minimum viable product. MVP development is building the smallest version of a product that does one job well enough for real users to try, so you learn whether the idea works before paying for the rest. At Boffin Coders an MVP is a working web or mobile app, not a mock-up: real data, real sign-ins where they are needed, launched on the web or in the stores.
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Work we’ve delivered
Bring the one job your product has to do
Twenty minutes with the engineer who would build it. You leave knowing what the first version should include, whether it starts on the web or in the stores, and what it costs from the published rates.