Not a demo and not a slide deck. A working product your first users can sign up to, with AI where it earns its place, built end to end by one senior engineer. You agree the scope and the price before I write a line of code.
Book a 30-minute call Free, 30 minutes. Bring the idea, I'll tell you honestly what the first version should be.Most MVPs don't need a chatbot. They need one job done that used to take a person: reading a document, writing a description, matching a user to the right option. That's where I put AI. Everywhere else, plain software is cheaper, faster and easier to trust.
You tell me the idea and who it's for. I tell you what the first version should include, and what it shouldn't.
A written spec, the architecture, a fixed price and a timeline. $2,000, credited against the build. You keep the spec either way.
A working version you can click through every week, not a big reveal at the end. Paid in stages as the work lands.
I help you ship to your first users. After that, you can keep me on for changes, quoted separately, or hand everything to your own team.
A fixed price, agreed in scoping, before any code. Most MVPs I build land in this range:
| Service | Price | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Scoping | $2,000, credited against the build | 5 working days |
| Simple MVP | from $8,000 | 3-4 weeks |
| Full product: web app, admin dashboards, backend, infrastructure | around $15,000 | 4-6 weeks |
| Complex or AI-heavy product | $15,000-30,000+, fixed in scoping | 6+ weeks |
They needed a whole product live, fast, while the scope was still moving.
I built the web side end to end: the landing page, admin and super-admin dashboards, the backend and the infrastructure - CI/CD, deployment on Google Cloud, Cloudflare and transactional email - plus targeted fixes in the mobile app.
They needed a new revenue line without a team to write the listings.
I built a system that reads partner catalogues, writes each product description with AI and matches it to the right customer.
A venture-backed AI startup with one engineer.
Co-founder and sole engineer of Smartsy through Techstars Miami '22, backed by J.P. Morgan. Front end, back end and infrastructure, built alone.
On my fastest build, the scope changed every week and the deadline didn't. We shipped in about two months, and paid for it in bugs after launch.
That's why every MVP I take on now starts with scoping. What's in the first version is written down and priced before I start. A new idea mid-build is welcome: it becomes a separate, priced decision, not an overnight rewrite.
A simple first version starts from $8,000. A full product like the Parqlet build - web app, admin dashboards, backend and infrastructure - is around $15,000. Complex or AI-heavy products cost more. The price is fixed in scoping, before any code.
Three to six weeks for most builds, after five days of scoping.
In most cases, yes. Scoping starts with what you already have, and I tell you honestly what to keep and what to rebuild.
Mostly the part behind the app: the backend, admin tools and web app. I can work on a React Native app too, but for a mobile-first MVP the best setup is usually a mobile developer for the app and me for everything behind it.
You do. The rights to each part of the code pass to you as you pay for it.
No. Most founders I work with aren't. You'll see a working version every week and never need to read code.
I'm in Ukraine and work during US mornings and the full UK working day.
Twelve years as a software engineer across e-commerce, marketplaces, fintech and manufacturing. Co-founder and sole engineer of Smartsy, an AI startup, through Techstars Miami '22, backed by J.P. Morgan. The person who scopes your MVP is the same person who builds it.
Tell me about it in 30 minutes. If the first version should be smaller than you think, I'll say so.
Book a 30-minute call or email yaro@workwithyaro.com