We’ve worked on projects ranging from $10,000 to $350,000, as you can see, the cost can vary significantly due to the different goals and tasks at various stages of business development.

On the first stage, the project budgets (on average, based on our previous work) usually fall within the range of $15k–$45k. It’s impossible to give an exact price for your project without knowing the specifics, but we can provide an overview of what each stage typically includes.

Stage 1: Initial Development (MVP)

For MVP (Minimum Viable Product) versions, especially for unique products, the initial budget is often lower. This is because an MVP focuses on testing the core idea with limited functionality to see if it resonates with your target audience. In the early stages, when the product is still in development and there’s no established user base, features are typically driven by your vision and goals as the founder, rather than detailed user feedback.

Stage 2: Refining the Product

Once testing is successful and you start gaining real customers and feedback, the scope often expands. This is when we dive into understanding how to refine your product, based on insights into your users’ needs and behaviors. We focus on enhancing the product’s online presence and improving user interactions, making sure it aligns with both your business goals and customer expectations.

Stage 3: Competing in Established Markets

In highly competitive markets, launching with an MVP might not be enough. Often, the next step involves making your product stand out — offering something that goes beyond what competitors provide, to attract and retain users. 

For example, think back to the early days of messaging apps like WhatsApp. At the time, the idea of a simple messaging service was enough to disrupt communication. But today, launching a new messenger just for sending messages won’t cut it. To compete with WhatsApp, your product would need to offer something unique and innovative in addition to all the features WhatsApp already provides.

We’ve worked with startups that began with an MVP and later grew into successful companies, securing investment through continuous iterations and improvements based on user insights.

Yes, absolutely. In fact, right on the first call, we will provide you with a rough estimate — as long as you submit a request with a clear description of your idea, or better yet, some documentation (such as a brief, wireframes, or specifications), we’ll come to the call prepared with some initial numbers.

From there, we’ll refine the details together, step by step, until we’re clear on how your idea should work, look, and how users will interact with it. Once everything is locked in, we can move forward with a fixed-price contract, giving you a guarantee that the cost and timeline will stay as agreed, no matter what.

We have a strong team of six backend developers, eight frontend developers, and four designers, two of whom specialize in UX research and prototyping. We’ve been working together since 2022, which means we can handle large projects efficiently without chaos. When it comes to timelines, our main limitation isn’t our capability — it’s aligning with your deadlines.

If you have tight deadlines, we have the experience to manage them. For example, we once launched an MVP for Kazakhstan’s largest automotive manufacturer just in time for a national expo attended by the President. The presentation was a success, and while we can’t disclose the exact sales figures due to confidentiality agreements, we can say that they sold enough cars right away to be very happy with the results.

Another example is when we helped a startup focused on creating a wildfire detection sensor. Their feature article was set to go live on Forbes on March 31st, and the website had to be up and running by then to allow pre-orders. Despite the pressure, we launched the site on time, and it received a strong response right after the article went live. The startup has since grown into a successful company.

A $30k budget is a great starting point for many business ideas. While it’s hard to say if it’s enough to bring your entire vision to life, if your budget is limited, we’ll work with you to define a scope and functionality that aligns with your budget.

Yes, we absolutely handle both. In fact, these are the first two stages in our 6-process system: Discovery and Research.

During the Discovery phase, we immerse ourselves in your business, product, or service. Our goal is to define what needs to be built, how it should work, and what outcomes we need to achieve. We focus on understanding the project’s objectives and setting clear goals.

Once we move to the Research phase, we dive deeper into understanding your target audience and competitors. We conduct interviews, gather feedback, create wireframes, build clickable prototypes, and perform corridor testing — all of which lay the foundation for design and development.

Yes, absolutely. The more detailed the specification, the more accurate our estimate, and the better the overall result. A clear spec minimizes blockers during development, speeds up the process, and ensures cleaner code. That’s why we always work from a specification.

If you provide a spec, we can skip the discovery and research phases, and jump straight into design or development. This can save time and help us deliver a tangible product faster — one that you can interact with, test, and gather feedback on.

Alternatively, if you don’t have a spec, we’ll develop it as part of our discovery and research phases before moving on to design and development.

Yes, we handle all of the above. If you’re wondering whether we can implement designs created by another designer, the answer is yes. The same goes for design and backend — we can execute specific tasks.

We also have extensive experience working in an outstaff model. If you need us to become part of your team, we can do that too. We often collaborate with branding agencies, saving them time and resources by bringing in additional developers when needed.

Over the years, we’ve developed effective collaboration rules. For example, designers detail every button link, create mobile and tablet versions, and add animations and notes in Figma. Frontend developers, especially during redesigns, ensure the markup preserves class names and structure, making integration smoother.

We can either integrate into your processes or bring you into ours. For example, when we worked with an employer who provided their own frontend, we invited them to our Jira and joined all our meetings. On the flip side, we’ve also fully integrated into employers’ systems, including their Jira and tools.

However, combining two teams can be challenging and often leads to errors that wouldn’t happen in a more synchronized team.

Yes, absolutely. We have extensive experience building a wide range of internal tools, admin panels, dashboards, and marketplaces. Some of our projects include platforms with one-time password access, traditional password-based logins that users can create and modify, as well as SMS verification or subscription-based access with payments through Stripe and other payment systems.

We’ve worked on systems that display key product data, such as most popular items, user favorites, and other performance metrics. In addition, we’ve built internal chat systems and interactive features like real-time maps that display live data, such as weather conditions, air quality, and wildfire status.

We’ve also developed an internal platform for purchasing cars online, connecting with banks via a payment gateway for instant loan approvals, and verifying users through camera integration to record short videos. Additionally, we’ve organized a queue management system for car dealerships, covering everything from sales managers to credit agents, evaluators, and even trade-ins for used cars.

One example of this is a full dealership platform where a manager simply clicks a button to start an evaluation process, triggering a notification for the evaluator to assess the car. The evaluator uses an iPad to photograph the car, immediately documenting any defects, adding comments, and uploading photos directly into the system. 

We have a lot of experience building these kinds of tools and more. For example, we also developed an internal platform for analyzing the behavior of popular crypto traders and their activities with meme coins. We connected with over four different third-party services, processed the data using complex formulas, and displayed key metrics that helped predict the future behavior of these traders based on the trades they made with meme coins. 

For more details on our projects, feel free to check out our case studies!

Yes, we’ve integrated each of these services dozens of times. In fact, in the email marketing space, we even built our own web service, Wmails.io, designed to seamlessly connect a website built on Webflow directly through Webflow login. It allows you to set up email campaigns or entire email sequences without any API connections, complex integrations, or code — anyone can do it with no developers needed.

We’re experts at integrating all of these tools, and if a service has an API, we’ll connect it. If the documentation is great, even better. If it’s lacking, no problem — we’ve dealt with that too. We’ll figure it out, and then create our own clear documentation on how exactly the integration works, so you or your future developers can easily maintain and understand it.

Our experience goes well beyond the services mentioned in the question. We’ve worked extensively with real estate platforms, review aggregation services, booking systems, payment gateways, and more. If you need something integrated, or if it comes up during development, it will all be handled internally by our team. You won’t need to find and coordinate with additional contractors, saving you time and hassle.

You’ll have a dedicated project manager and a custom team tailored to your project. We carefully select team members based on their strengths, ensuring the right people are assigned to the right tasks.

We always start with an introduction meeting, where we get to know each other and set clear expectations. Our communication channels are well-defined — we send important information and reports via email to keep everything organized.

Every week, we send you a progress report summarizing what was accomplished, outlining plans for the upcoming week, and updating you on where we are in terms of the timeline. We estimate the final project deadline with some flexibility, as these projects often span several months — sometimes even six months or more. However, we always track the completion dates for each phase, so you’ll know exactly where we stand at any given time.

At the end of each phase — whether it’s research, prototyping, design, or development — we hold mini retrospectives. These meetings help us review what went well, identify areas for improvement, and refine our processes going forward. And, of course, a final retrospective takes place at the end of the project.

Your project manager and the team are always available to you. We’re happy to hop on a call whenever you have questions. We’ll also set up a communication channel like Slack or WhatsApp for routine discussions and quick check-ins.

You can always check in, ask about progress, and know exactly what the team is working on. We can even provide you with access to our Jira board so you can track the project’s progress and see how tasks are moving through the pipeline. Our processes are highly synchronized, ensuring smooth communication and efficient delivery.

If you want us to fully integrate into your team — allowing you to set priorities, assign tasks, and manage the work as if we were in the next office — that’s also an option. Just let us know, and we’ll seamlessly integrate into your cadence, whether it’s Jira, Asana, Monday, or any other tool you’re using. We’ll join your daily meetings, progress reports, and everything else. This is a collaboration model we’re experienced with, working in an outstaffing model.

We have plenty of experience working with in-house teams, and we’ve often worked in an outstaffing model, where we fully integrate our team into your processes. This means we plug into your Jira or any other task manager you use, like Monday, Asana, etc., and participate in your team cadences — daily stand-ups, retrospectives, presentations, and so on. You can assign tasks directly, set priorities, ask questions, and communicate directly with developers.

Even though we integrate fully into your team, we still provide a project manager who ensures seamless communication. They take care of keeping track of everything: task details, checklists, and any important documents. This way, our developers don’t have to keep everything in their heads, and nothing slips through the cracks.

We’ve worked with various agencies and studios over the years, building long-term relationships because it’s often more cost-effective for them to call us in for periodic work rather than keeping a developer on the bench. Through years of collaboration, we’ve developed efficient processes to make this kind of teamwork as smooth as possible. For instance, our designers always make sure to mark every button, every link, and leave comments on how animations should work before handing designs over to your developers. 

On the development side, let’s say you need to update the design of your platform, and your backend is ready to integrate, but you need frontend work. In this case, our frontend developers will carefully study your existing markup structure, class names, and IDs. We’ll prepare everything for a smooth handoff, so your backend team can integrate our frontend with minimal hassle. 

Of course, we can’t promise it will always be flawless, as merging two teams with different workflows and best practices can be challenging. But we know how to minimize these challenges, and the longer we work together, the more seamless the process becomes.

We always suggest testing this collaboration with a small, simple task first — something quick to implement. This will give you a chance to assess the code quality, communication methods, and decide if we’re the right fit for a longer-term partnership.

Any bugs, errors, or issues that come up after launch, we fix immediately and without question. We take full responsibility for making sure everything works as it should.

When it comes to support, we love diving into analytics to see how the service we’ve built is performing. We look at how the metrics have improved compared to before the update, if there are any numbers to analyze. Based on this data, we form hypotheses about what else can be improved or added to make the product even better. If your service has a commercial focus and there’s data to analyze, we’re more than happy to take that on and provide actionable insights.

For our employers who need ongoing support after the product is launched, we offer a special support contract with very favorable terms. It’s a great option if you want to have an almost in-house team — just imagine having that team on another floor, at a lower cost than hiring and training a full-time employee for these tasks.

Oh, this is an important point. When we deliver the project, we don’t just transfer the code to your live server, but also all the scripts that make the service work and tie it all together into a functional product. We do this to protect you from any unforeseen issues that could arise with our server. Even though we use a reliable server, there are always a couple of days each year when there are attacks, or something unexpected happens, and the server might go down. To make sure this doesn’t affect your work, we always move all the scripts and code to your server.

If you don’t have your own server or don’t have experience setting one up, no worries — we’ll guide you through it and transfer your web service to your server with no issues. We’ve done this plenty of times, and you can trust us with it.

Now, of course, there are times when we need to launch quickly, like when we’re doing a demo for investors or showing something that’s not quite ready yet. In those cases, we can host the service on our server if you need it. But, overall, we prefer not to keep your code on our server.

Also, just to mention, we usually keep the latest version of the code on our side for backup purposes for about a year. Sometimes, you wouldn’t believe it, but something as simple as an unpaid server bill can cause the provider to delete everything. We’ve had that happen a couple of times, and that’s where having a backup saved us. But after a year, we delete everything. Honestly, we don’t need your code. It fully belongs to you, and the results of our work belong to you as well.

We use Jira to manage tasks and work in weekly sprints, but we also follow Kanban principles. We’ve undergone special training for this, and our Jira setup is fully optimized. You can get an idea of how it looks in the second video on our /how-we-work page — if you haven’t seen it yet, you can check it out here.

For communication, we use email as the place where we store all agreements, meeting summaries, timelines, and anything else that’s important. 

For day-to-day communication, we’re flexible and can work in any messaging platform that’s convenient for your team — whether it’s Slack, WhatsApp, or something else. We’ll fit right into your workflow. If you want us to integrate into your processes and become a part of your team, no problem at all. We have experience working with Asana, Monday, Trello — you name it. We can easily adapt and participate in your team’s cadences, whether it’s daily stand-ups, reports, or presentations. It’s all part of the job for us.

When it comes to our processes, we meet weekly to review what’s been done, plan for the upcoming week, and pull cards from the backlog into the Ready for Analysis columns in our Jira. We assign tasks, discuss blockers or issues, and send you a written report either by email or through your preferred messaging platform.

We also conduct retrospectives not only at the end of the entire project but after each major phase, such as research, prototyping, design, and so on. Every key stage gets a retrospective.

Staying connected with you and working as one team is crucial. One of the main responsibilities of our project manager is to quickly resolve any blockers, issues, or obstacles that arise within the team. We’re always available to answer questions, and you can reach out to us at any time. Likewise, we expect to be able to ask you questions when the team faces any challenges during the project.