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MVP and SaaS development · Bengaluru
MVP development: a first version, live in weeks, with the code handed to you.
MyFloww does MVP and SaaS development for founders and businesses across India: a fixed-scope first version of your product, built in Next.js, React and TypeScript, live in weeks rather than months, with the source code handed to you and a plan for what comes after launch.
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Fixed scope
One job, done properly, before anything else.
A fixed-scope MVP does the one thing the product exists for, for one kind of user, well enough that real people will use it — and nothing else yet. The scope is agreed in writing before the build starts, and so is the price.
- One user, one job
- The person the product is for, and the single thing they must be able to do. Everything in the first version serves that, and the test of every feature request is whether it does.
- The scope, written down
- What is in, what is out, and what done looks like for each screen — agreed before any code is written, so nobody discovers in week six that they meant different things.
- A fixed price for that scope
- Quoted individually once the scope is set. Ideas that arrive during the build go on the list for the next phase rather than quietly into this one.
- Real users before polish
- The first version is finished when real people can use it for the job, not when every screen is perfect. Polish goes where users spend their time, which you only learn after launch.
What to leave out of version one
What to leave out of the first version.
Leave out everything the core job does not need on the first day. Most of it is not lost — it goes on a list the first users will reorder for you, which is usually the most useful thing an MVP produces.
- A second type of user
- Build for the customer first, or for the business first — not both at once. The second side can run on a spreadsheet or by hand while you learn whether the first side wants it.
- Admin screens beyond the basics
- The team running the product can tolerate a plain screen for a few months. The users cannot.
- Integrations nobody has asked for
- Each one is a dependency to build, test and keep working. Add them when a customer needs them, not because a competitor lists them.
- Native apps, if the web will do
- A web app that works well on a phone reaches the same people without app-store review. Native apps can follow once the product has proved itself.
- Payments — sometimes
- If the first question is whether people will use it, payment can wait. If the question is whether they will pay, then payment is the MVP.
Whether the first version should be an app or a website at all is its own question — does a business need an app or a website? — and what drives the cost is in app development cost in India.
Stack and handover
Built on technology any good developer can pick up.
An MVP from MyFloww is built in Next.js and React with TypeScript throughout, and handed over completely: the source code in a repository in your name, the accounts it runs on set up under your ownership, and documentation written for whoever comes next.
- Next.js and React
- One codebase for the product and its marketing site, prerendered where it can be and rendered on the server where it must be — fast on a phone either way.
- TypeScript throughout
- Types catch a whole class of mistakes before users do, and make the code readable for the next developer — including your first hire.
- Your repository, your accounts
- The source code, the hosting, the domain and every third-party account set up in your name from the start, so you never have to ask us for access to your own product.
- Documentation for the next developer
- How it is built, how to run it, how to deploy it — written so your own team, or another studio, can carry on without us.
A product we built and run
We build products, and we run one.
Kinetiq is a SaaS product MyFloww built and operates: patient management and billing software that physiotherapy clinics and practitioners in India sign up for and use the same day.
- Ready from the first day
- A practice sets its hours and fees and runs its first session without an implementation project or an onboarding call.
- Subscription billing built in
- Plans, billing and renewals are part of the product, not an afterthought bolted on before launch.
- Many users in one account
- Each therapist and assistant has their own login, with role-based access so each sees what their role requires.
- Data handled properly
- Hosted in India, encrypted in transit and at rest.
The questions a live product raises — billing, support, the next feature, what to leave out — are ones we deal with on our own product, not only on clients’. See Kinetiq.
After launch
What happens after the MVP launches.
After launch you watch what users actually do, fix what real use breaks, and scope the next phase from that evidence rather than from the original wish list — built by us, or handed to your own team.
- Watch what users do
- Where they sign up and stop, which screens they return to, what they ask for. The first weeks of real use answer questions no planning meeting could.
- Fix what real use breaks
- Every new product meets cases nobody imagined. Those are fixed first, before anything new is built.
- Scope the next phase from evidence
- The list of what was left out, reordered by what users actually asked for, and scoped and priced as its own phase.
- Build on, or hand over
- We can build the next phase, or hand the product to your own team with the code, the accounts and the documentation.
- Keep it running
- Updates, security patches, monitoring and backups — the care plan that keeps a live product current between phases.
Who it is for
Four kinds of product an MVP suits.
MVP 01 MVP 02 An internal tool becoming a product
Something your own business built for itself that other businesses have started asking about.MVP 03 A prototype that has hit its limits
A no-code or spreadsheet version that proved the idea and now cannot carry more users, more data or a paid plan.MVP 04 A business that needs a product, not a team
You need the first version built properly before you decide whether to hire developers of your own.
If what you need is a system for your own business rather than a product for others, start with custom CRM development for the sales side or custom ERP software development for operations.
How an MVP project runs
From the one job to a live product.
01 · First
Define the one job
Who the product is for, what they must be able to do, and how you will know whether it worked.
02 · In writing
Fix the scope and the price
What is in, what is out, and what done means for each screen — and a fixed price for exactly that.
03 · Weeks, not months
Build in the open
A live preview link from the first week, updated as the work goes on, so you test the real product rather than a slide about it.
04 · Launch onwards
Launch and learn
Live with real users, the code handed over, and the next phase scoped from what they do.
Questions
About MVP and SaaS development.
What is an MVP?
An MVP — a minimum viable product — is the smallest version of a product that real users can use to do the one thing it exists for, built to find out whether they will before more is spent on it.
What should be left out of the first version?
Everything the core job does not need on the first day: a second type of user, admin screens beyond the basics, integrations nobody has asked for yet, and polish on screens few people will see.
Most of what gets cut is not lost. It goes on a list that the first users then reorder, which is usually the most useful thing an MVP produces.
How long does MVP development take?
A fixed-scope first version is built in weeks rather than months, because the scope is cut to the one job the product has to do; the exact timeline comes with the scope.
What technology do you build MVPs in?
Next.js and React with TypeScript throughout — modern, open, widely used technology, so any good developer can pick the product up after us.
Do I own the code of my MVP?
Yes. The source code is handed over in a repository in your name, with the accounts the product runs on, so you can hire your own team or move to another developer without asking us.
What happens after the MVP launches?
You watch what users actually do, and the next phase is scoped from that rather than from the original wish list — built by us, or handed to your own team.
Where to next
- Does a business need an app or a website?
The question to settle before the first version is scoped.
- App development cost in India
What sets the price of a build, and how keeping the first version small keeps it down.
- Custom software and app development
Customer apps, web apps, CRM and ERP — what an MVP grows into.
- How much does it cost to build an MVP in India?
What decides the cost of a first version, what to cut, and what never to cut.
- Should your business build a web app or a mobile app?
The platform decision to settle before an MVP is scoped.
- How long does custom software take to build?
What sets the timeline of a fixed-scope first version, and what slows it.
Tell us the one job your product has to do.
MVPs are quoted individually, as a fixed scope for a fixed price. Describe who the product is for and what they must be able to do, and we will come back with a scope for the first version.
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