SaaS product build (0→1)

I have taken two of my own products from an empty repository to live customers, so I know which decisions you cannot postpone: tenancy, billing, and how support will debug a broken account at 11pm. SaaS MVP development with me means building the smallest product that real customers can pay for, on foundations that will not need to be thrown away.

Who this is for

You have a validated idea: people have told you they would pay, or they are already paying for a manual version. What you need now is a working product, not a slide deck, and a developer who has been through launch before and knows what comes after it. If you are still testing whether the problem exists, I will suggest a cheaper experiment first.

What SaaS MVP development includes

An MVP still needs the parts customers never see. Each customer gets their own space, on a subdomain or their own domain, with data kept separate. Sign-up, plans, trials and upgrades work from the first day, because a product nobody can pay for is still a prototype. There is an admin back office, so you can look up an account, issue a refund or fix a setting without asking a developer.

Then comes the product itself, focused on the one workflow that makes customers sign up. Where it matters, I add realtime features and offline-friendly behaviour. Direct Dine, my AI-powered restaurant ordering SaaS, is an example: live order boards and kitchen screens update instantly, and each restaurant runs on its own tenant with its own menu and settings.

How a project runs

Discovery is where we cut scope. We agree the single core workflow, the pricing model and what can wait for version two. I then build in short cycles with a working demo you can click through every week or two. Launch means real accounts, real payments and monitoring in place. After launch I can stay on to support the first customers, fix what they find and build the next set of features based on what they actually use.

Cost and timeline

A SaaS MVP typically takes 8–16 weeks, depending on how much the core workflow involves. I give you a written estimate once the scope is agreed in discovery.

FAQ

Do I own the code?

Yes. The code and infrastructure are in your accounts from the start.

Can the MVP scale later?

The architecture is chosen so it can. Tenancy, billing and data structure are the hard things to change, so those are done properly from the start.

What if I need a mobile app?

Most MVPs launch as a progressive web app that installs on a phone. A native app can follow once the product has proven itself.