Your app, any complexity, built and ready to launch.
We build it.
Two senior engineers. One week. Five thousand dollars. Working AI-first, we ship in a week what a studio bills as one to two months and $20,000 to $40,000. Original designs, no AI slop, yours to keep.
The whole app
Design, frontend, backend, tested and deployed. The real thing, not a demo.
One week, $5,000
What studios bill at one to two months and $20k to $40k. We build AI-first, so it takes days.
Yours, and we're around
You own the code, accounts and data. We're a message away for fixes and the next build.
Why one week
A month of engineering, done in a week.
AI made senior engineers an order of magnitude faster. Not no-code, not the vibe-coding platforms that stall on anything real. Two people who build hard systems for a living, now moving at a pace that used to take a team.
You get the ceiling, not the shortcut. A hard core product, done properly, in the time everyone else spends scoping it.
What lands in your hands.
One week from go, a working product on your own domain:
Original design, zero slop. Drawn for your product. No templates, no stock layouts, no filler copy.
Every screen and flow. Built, wired, and working end to end.
The hard backend. APIs, database, auth, payments, done right.
Built to scale. Real system design for load, speed and growth.
Deployed and live. On your own domain, ready for real users.
Infrastructure in your name. We pick the right hosting, database and storage, then hand it all over on your own accounts. Nothing runs on ours.
All the code. Clean, documented, and yours to keep.
Error monitoring. We watch it and fix what breaks.
A marketing desk (optional, no charge). Local dashboards for ads, content, SEO and GEO, and more.
Tokens on us. Every AI and generation cost during the build is ours.
A direct line after. For changes, fixes, and whatever is next.
How it works.
Nothing starts until the plan is agreed. Then one week to live.
The call
Free, 20 minutes. The idea, the fit, a rough shape.
FreeScope and spec
We gather everything and agree exactly what gets built, at a fixed price. A small retainer that comes off the $5k.
Credited to the $5kThe build week
One week. Progress daily, and you steer as we go.
Launch
Live on your domain and keys. The code is yours.
After
A direct line for fixes, changes, and the next build.
Built for the hard stuff.
The complex builds that no-code and vibe-coding platforms stall on. Real backends, real scale. Famous names below are the problem class: we ship the core of systems like these in a week, not a clone of the whole public product.
Marketplaces. Two-sided matching, payments, trust and reviews. The bones of something like Uber or Ticketmaster, scoped to your market.
Search and discovery. Crawling, indexing, ranking, geo, autocomplete. The shape of a Yelp or a post search, for your domain.
Real time. Chat, live comments, collaborative editing, streaming. Systems in the same family as WhatsApp or Google Docs.
Agent-first. Sites and tools built for AI agents to read and drive, and LLM apps of your own.
APIs and platforms. Rate limiters, schedulers, distributed caches, the primitives other software calls.
Games. Three.js in the browser or real-time multiplayer. Think online chess or a coding judge, not a full Steam catalog.
Data and pipelines. Aggregation, metrics, job scheduling, price tracking. An ad-click counter or a live ops dashboard.
High-scale consumer. Feeds, media, file sync, activity. The core loop of something like Instagram or Dropbox, not the whole public product.
Fintech. Payments, ledgers, trading, auctions. The machinery behind a payment system or a simple trading desk, not a bank.
Internal tools. Automations and dashboards for the work you do by hand.
SaaS. Accounts, billing, dashboards, teams.
Deep tech. Novel systems, heavy compute, long build cycles.
What these actually cost to build, and what we would leave out of each: the real cost of building an app.
Interested in mobile apps?
One Expo build, compiled to native iOS and Android: real Swift and Kotlin, both stores. Plus the conversion machinery mobile lives or dies on.
Native iOS and Android. One Expo codebase, compiled to real Swift and Kotlin. Both app stores.
Onboarding that converts. 10-plus step flows and quizzes that qualify and hook, not one bland welcome screen.
Paywalls that earn. The patterns that actually convert, wired to RevenueCat.
Network effects. Invites, friends and sharing built in, so every user pulls in the next. Viral loops, not a lonely app.
Real device features. Camera, notifications, AlarmKit, location, whatever the app needs.
Any kind of app. Alarm apps, video analyzers, trackers, social. Real App Store apps, not wrappers.
The stack we build on.
The stack we hand over with your app, each piece picked for the job. The heavier tools are there to scale into when you need them.
All set up on your own accounts, and only what your build actually needs.
One week. One price.
Founding rate. Fixed and agreed before we start. Covers everything, including the AI and token costs. Two installments: half to begin, half at launch.
Bigger or multi-app builds: priced on the call. Any scoping retainer comes off this.
Want to learn while we build? For an added fee we come to you and build it in person, at your table, learning the AI workflows and tools the pros actually use:
Who builds it.
Two senior engineers: Leon and Sara. Between them: AI systems for Adecco and Mya Systems (acquired), early engineering on the Nook e-reader, a residency at the startup accelerator Antler, Google Singapore, the software consultancy Durian Industries, and dozens of shipped apps across platforms.
Book the 20 minute call.
Tell us what you want built. We'll tell you if it's a fit, and what it takes.
Questions.
What exactly do I get?
A complete, deployed app: original design, every screen, the backend, all of it. Live on your own domain and yours to keep.
Isn't everything AI-built slop now?
The look and the words, usually yes: the same templates, the same stock layouts, the same padded filler copy. We treat that as the enemy. Every build runs through our own system for original design and plain language, so it reads and looks like no one else's. This site is the sample.
How can it be one week?
Two senior engineers working AI-first. The parts that used to take a team months are fast now, if you know how to build. The week is real engineering, not a template.
Is $5,000 really all-in?
Yes. Fixed and agreed before we start. We cover the AI and token costs during the build. Two installments: half to begin, half at launch.
How complex can it be?
Complex. Marketplaces, search, real time, agents, games, payments: the same problem classes as the big products above, scoped to a launchable core. If it needs a real backend and real scale, it is in range. The week ships that core; the full public product is not what $5k buys.
What happens before the week?
We gather everything and agree exactly what gets built, at a fixed price. A small retainer covers it and comes off the $5k. The build starts once the plan is set.
Do I own it?
All of it. Code, accounts, data, design. On your domain and your keys. Nothing is locked to us.
What if I need changes later?
You have a direct line. We are a message away for fixes and more work, priced as we go.
Can you build on my existing code?
Usually yes. Tell us what you have on the call and we will say straight.
I run a small business. Can you make my site agentic or AI-powered?
Yes. We rebuild your site to be agent-ready and add AI that earns its place: an assistant that answers and books, smart search, automations behind the scenes. Yours to keep, like everything we build.
Can I watch it get built, or learn?
Yes. For an added fee we fly to you and build it in person, so you learn as we go.
What if it's not a fit?
Then the call is where it ends. It is free either way.
Going deeper: what it costs to build an app, or a specific build: like Uber, like Instagram, like WhatsApp.