Fixed-price MVP development for UK founders: production code, a demo every Friday and payments live at launch.
What you get
A product customers can sign up to and pay for, not a prototype to rebuild.
Pricing
Two sprints, priced before the build starts.
Limited offer25% off our next two MVPs
Preferred
2 week development sprint
Usually£10,00025% off
Now£7,500+ VAT
3 week development sprint
Usually£20,00025% off
Now£15,000+ VAT
Process
Two calls, a 2 week development sprint with Friday demos, then a week of support.
Booked around you
MonInitial call
WedDiscovery call
Thu to FriScope and price agreed
Development
Mon to ThuDevelopment begins
FriDemo
Iteration
Mon to ThuIteration and refinement
FriDemo + launch
Live
MonFull handover
Tue to Fri1 week of support
An example schedule for the MVP. The Extended MVP adds a second week of development.
Who it is for
If it is the wrong tool for you, we will say so on the call.
Our stack
Your MVP runs on the same production stack as established web products.
TypeScript, Next.js and Postgres, hosted on infrastructure in your name. When the MVP works and you hire developers, they inherit a codebase they already know rather than a rebuild.
Database
Database
Hosting
Storage
Styling
RuntimeOur work
Each went from first sketch to live domain through the same sprint a client MVP does.
AI analytics for YouTube creators
Viewlio reads a YouTube video's audience retention curve against the video itself, frame by frame, and explains why viewers left and what to change in the next upload.
Shareable revenue charts
Pretty Metrics reads a founder's revenue from Stripe and six other payment providers and turns it into polished share cards and looping videos for X, LinkedIn and investor updates.
Why Scryptic
Agency-quality code at freelancer speed, for a fixed price.
| Scryptic | In-house hire | Agency | Freelancer | AI-only tools | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SpeedLaunched after a 2 or 3 week sprint, not a hiring round | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| QualityProduction code that holds up with real users | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| FlexibilityPriorities revisited every week as you learn | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Yours to ownCode and accounts handed over to you | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Cost vs valueA fixed price for a launched product | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Guides
Free guides and tools for scoping and costing a first release.
MVP
How to build an MVP in one to two months, week by week: scoping, design, build sprints, launch week and the first month with real users, with checklists.
10 min read
MVP meaning
MVP software is the first release people can use to finish one job without you. How it differs from a prototype, the main types, and five checks to run.
8 min read
MVP examples
An MVP software development example, worked through: a gift voucher app's first release, what it leaves out and what it can prove, plus three more.
7 min read
App cost
UK app development costs broken down: prices by route and by type of app, what moves a quote, monthly running costs and the hidden costs founders miss.
9 min read
SaaS cost
SaaS cost is a one-off build plus running costs that grow with every customer. A worked example shows what sets each bill, before launch and after it.
7 min read
Web vs mobile
Build the web app first unless the phone is the product. A one-table decision guide to web, PWA, React Native or native for your first release.
4 min read
Eight quick questions and a ballpark price and timeline for your MVP, in about a minute.
List your features, size them and see what fits a one week build and what can wait.
FAQ
Cost, timeline, scope and what happens after launch.
MVP development means designing, building and launching the first version of a product with only the features needed to test it with paying customers. At Scryptic that first version is production code, so the next release extends it rather than replacing it.
With Scryptic it is a fixed price, plus VAT. The MVP is £10,000 for a 2 week development sprint, and The Extended MVP is £20,000 for a 3 week development sprint. For a limited time there is 25% off our next two MVPs, bringing them to £7,500 and £15,000. The price is agreed after the discovery call, before any build starts, and does not change mid-sprint.
Two or three weeks once the scope is agreed. The MVP package is one week of development and one week of iteration on your feedback, then launch. The Extended MVP adds a second week of development. A week of handover and support follows either one.
Only what your first customers need to do the core job and pay for it: one main user journey, sign-in, payments if you charge, and the admin you need to run it. Everything else waits for evidence from real users. The free MVP Scope Planner walks through the same cut.
No. A prototype shows how a product might work and is usually thrown away. An MVP is a working product that real users sign up to and pay for. It is smaller than the full vision, but built properly enough to grow into it.
Web apps. One web app runs on every phone, tablet and laptop, can be found in search and shared as a link, and a fix is live the moment it ships rather than after app store review. The MVP is built so a native app can be added once the product has proved itself.
A clear idea of who the product is for and the problem it solves. You do not need designs, a written spec or a technical co-founder. Bring any sketches, competitor examples or existing code, and the discovery call turns them into an agreed scope.
Yes. Several of our launches have AI at their core: ReelEstate turns listing photos into property videos and Viewlio gives YouTube creators AI analytics on their channels. The same sprint covers the AI pipeline, its costs and checks on its output.
A week of handover and support for bug fixes and a smooth rollout, then the code, hosting and accounts are yours. You can book another sprint once real users show what to build next, or hand the codebase to your own developer.
You do. The code lives in your repository, and the hosting, database and payment accounts are in your name and handed over at launch. Nothing is locked to us.
Tell us what you want to build and who it is for. You will leave the call knowing what to build first and what it would cost, whether or not you build it with us.
Book a discovery callor email maxwinterleinweber@gmail.com