Ship your MVP in 6 weeks.
Fixed $20,000. Secure by default.
Production-ready SaaS shipped in six weeks for a fixed price — built by an engineer who's shipped 8 SaaS apps and spent 18 months deep in cybersecurity. The combination most dev shops can't offer.
If any of these sound like you,
you're in the right place.
You've been building with AI and hit a wall
Claude Code or Cursor got you 70% of the way. The last 30% — auth that doesn't leak, payments that don't break, security that won't haunt you — is where you're stuck.
You have an idea worth shipping but can't code (yet)
You know the market, you know the customer, you've sketched the product. You don't want a 6-month agency engagement. You want a working MVP, fast.
You shipped something fragile and it scares you
Your prototype works, but you wouldn't bet a paying customer on it. You need a rebuild that doesn't fall over the first time someone tries to actually use it.
Exactly what $20,000 buys you
No vague "MVP package." Here's the actual deliverables list.
Production-ready web app
Deployed to your custom domain on Cloudflare or Vercel with HTTPS, edge caching, and zero infra to babysit.
Auth done right
Email + OAuth (Google, GitHub) with secure session handling. No "we'll add auth later." It's in from week one.
Stripe payments wired
Subscriptions or one-time payments. Webhooks handled. Billing portal so your users can self-serve.
Database + clean schema
Postgres or D1, properly modeled, with migrations. No data-shaped time bombs left for you to inherit.
3–5 core features
Scoped together in week one. Ruthless prioritization so we ship the thing that actually proves your idea — not a feature museum.
Security baked in
OWASP basics, secrets handled, dependency hygiene, CSP, rate limiting. Things most MVPs only fix after the first breach.
Full code + docs handoff
Your repo, your code. No lock-in, no licensing games. README and architecture notes so any engineer can pick it up later.
30 days of bug fixes
After launch, I fix anything that breaks for 30 days at no extra cost. Roll out, not roll-the-dice.
What's not included
Honest scope-setting up front saves both of us pain later. The $20k Secure MVP does not include:
- Native mobile apps (iOS/Android) — web only
- Ongoing feature development after launch (covered by a separate retainer)
- Marketing, SEO content, paid ads, copywriting
- Rescuing an existing codebase (different engagement, scoped separately)
- Pixel-perfect bespoke design from a brand book (we use a clean Tailwind + shadcn baseline you can re-skin)
Week by week, here's how this goes
No vague "agile sprints." Concrete weekly outputs you can hold me to.
Scope & sign
Intro call → written scope (3–5 features, stack choices, success criteria) → contract signed → 50% deposit.
Architecture & spec
Data model, API surface, auth flow, payment flow. You approve the plan before a single line of feature code is written.
Build with weekly demos
Core features shipped sprint-style. Every Friday you get a working demo on a staging URL. Course-correct early, not after launch.
Integration & security review
Stripe live, auth hardened, security review (the cyber half of my background does the work most shops skip), polish, edge cases.
Launch & handoff
Production deploy, custom domain, monitoring wired up, code + docs handed over, 60-min handoff call. Then you're live.
The combination most dev shops
can't offer
Most dev shops know nothing about security. Most cybersecurity people can't ship product. I've done both — and I'll bring both to your MVP.
8 SaaS apps shipped
I've launched eight SaaS apps myself — not pitched, not designed, shipped. You get an engineer who's run the gauntlet from idea to deployed product, not someone learning on your dime.
18 months in cybersecurity
Most dev shops know nothing about security. Most cyber people can't ship product. I do both. Your MVP launches with the hardening that usually only arrives after a painful incident.
Solo, focused, no handoff drift
No account manager. No offshore handoff. No "let me check with the team." You talk to the person writing the code, every week.
Fixed price, fixed scope
No surprise invoices. No mid-project repricing. If I underestimate the work, I eat it — that's what fixed-price means.
One price. No surprises.
Fixed price · 6 weeks to production · 50% to start, 50% on launch
No salesy follow-up sequences. One call, you decide, we either move forward or you move on.
Honest answers to the obvious questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the Secure MVP
Yes — fixed means fixed. If I underestimate the work, I absorb the cost. The way fixed pricing works is that we agree on a tight 3–5 feature scope up front (in writing) and we don't add to it mid-sprint. If you decide mid-project you want a sixth feature, we either swap it in for one of the original five or scope a small add-on. No surprise invoices.
Default: Next.js + TypeScript + Tailwind on the frontend, Cloudflare Workers or Vercel for hosting, Postgres or Cloudflare D1 for the database, Stripe for payments. This stack is proven, fast to ship on, and what I've used to ship 8 apps. If you have a strong preference for a different stack (Rails, Django, Go) we can talk — but the timeline assumes my default stack.
After the included 30-day bug-fix window, ongoing work moves to a Fractional Builder retainer — $5,000/month for roughly one shipped feature per week. You can stay on the retainer as long as you need, or come back to it later. There's no obligation to continue.
Yes — by helping you scope down to the smallest valuable thing. "Big idea" usually means "3 connected products," and we ship the one that proves the core hypothesis first. If after the discovery call your idea genuinely doesn't fit in a 6-week scope, I'll tell you straight and we'll talk about whether a longer engagement (or a different shape entirely) makes sense.
Yes, before the discovery call if you want to talk specifics. A mutual NDA is standard. Note: I won't sign anything that prohibits me from working in your general industry afterward — that's a non-compete, not an NDA.
The 50% deposit is non-refundable once Week 1 (architecture & spec) starts, because the work begins immediately. Before Week 1 kicks off, you have an out: if after the scope is written you decide not to proceed, the deposit is fully refundable minus a $500 scoping fee.
You do, 100%. On launch I push to your GitHub/GitLab org and you own everything — code, infrastructure, accounts. No licensing tricks, no lock-in, no "we host it for you" clauses. If we ever part ways, you walk away with the entire product.
Ready to ship something real?
One 30-minute call. We talk about your idea, I tell you straight whether the 6-week MVP shape fits it, and you decide whether to move forward. No salesy follow-up either way.