The idea you can’t stop thinking about. Live, and selling, in 30 days.

Fair, and sometimes they’re the right call. If you have a validated idea, a spec, and your own product judgment, a $6k build shop will serve you fine. This is for founders who need the decisions as much as the code: what to build, what to cut, whether the idea survives contact with real users, and how the first customer actually gets landed. One person is accountable for all of it, and you can talk to him right now. The stack is standard and portable, so any developer can pick it up: TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind, Supabase, Stripe, Vercel.

You should try, seriously. Many of my best-fit clients did. Tools like Lovable, Cursor, Bolt, and Base44 will get you an impressive demo fast. Then most founders stall: auth, payments, security, data architecture, deployment, and, harder still, knowing which five features matter and how to get anyone to pay. That last stretch is what you’re buying, along with 15 years of judgment about what to build at all.

We start with responsive web. It’s faster to validate and works on every phone. Native apps come after you have customers.

You can, and you should read them either way. Two honest catches. Sprints are built for a team with a facilitator, and running one on yourself, about your own idea, is where most solo attempts fall apart; you can’t be the neutral referee and the person in love with the idea at the same time. And a sprint ends with a prototype. This ends with a product that’s live, deployed, and taking payments.

We look at the evidence together. Usually there’s a sharper version hiding in the feedback and we pivot the build to that; a sprint that kills a bad assumption is a win, not a failure. If you’d rather stop, you keep everything and don’t pay the balance. The only genuinely bad outcome is the one where you never found out. And if week one kills idea A but surfaces idea B, we can add a second sprint week for $2,500 and test that one before deciding.

The Week 1 gate is the honest version of one. Beyond that, no. This is for founders who back themselves. What I guarantee is the work: a real sprint, real user evidence, a real product, a real launch plan. What you do with it is yours.

You own everything, literally. The repo is yours, and you’re the owner or admin on every account we set up: hosting, database, payments, analytics, domain. Any developer in the world can pick up where I left off. Most clients take the iteration retainer or come back for a v2, but that’s a choice, never a dependency.

Funded teams with in-house engineering, ideas requiring deep native mobile or hardware, and anyone who can’t give 3 to 5 hours a week. Start dates are limited, so fit matters.

It works well. Some founders want everything done for them. Others want to pair, or have a technical co-founder who’ll own the product after day 30. We sort the split on the call: you or your partner can take pieces of the build, work in the repo alongside me, or shadow the whole process to learn it. The sprint, the gate, and the feature freeze hold either way; the only thing that changes is who’s typing. And a technical partner inheriting a clean, standard-stack repo on day 30 is the best handoff there is.