Austin, Texas
MVP development for founders
Austin founders
Austin pulled in record venture funding in 2025 and the dev hiring market is brutal. You are competing with Indeed, Tesla, and a dozen YC-backed teams for the same five senior engineers. We are a one-engineer shop that ships product in two-week sprints, flat-priced, code yours from day one.
Year-one cost of hiring locally
Average time to fill the role
Our starting price
Lean MVP delivery
The local read
Why this works for Austin
Austin became the de facto second US tech capital, but the side effect is that hiring senior engineers now takes 60+ days and costs almost as much as the Bay Area. Most of the agencies in town are staffing shops that bill by the hour and bench you between sprints.
We do not staff. We ship. Typical engagement is a focused 2 to 4 week build with one senior engineer owning end-to-end, flat-price quoted after a discovery call. You keep the code, the deploy access, and the documentation. No retainer creep, no five-person handoff chain.
Time zone
CT
We work on Central Time, so we overlap with your in-house team, your investors, and your customers in the same window.
Sectors we work in here
- · AI and ML tooling
- · Defense tech
- · Robotics
- · B2B SaaS
- · Consumer product
What we ship
Built by one,
shipped in weeks
Same engineer owns the build from spec to deploy. Flat-priced after a discovery call. Code yours from day one.
Production MVPs in 2 to 4 weeks (Next.js, Postgres, Stripe stack)
AI features and LLM integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic, open models)
Mobile apps with React Native, native when the use case needs it
Built from Austin
Founders here shipped these
Real Austin founders. Real shipped product. Not a stock-photo lineup of "trusted by" logos.
Side by side
Two paths
for your Austin startup
Same outcome: a shipped product. Different path, different bill, different timeline.
Option A
Hiring in Austin
- $310K year-one cost per senior engineer
- 60+ days average to fill the role
- 40% chance they leave inside year one
- You manage them, train them, ramp them
- Three-month notice when it does not work out
Option B
Working with us
- Lean MVPs from $15K, flat-priced
- Discovery call this week, build starts next
- Senior engineer, named, on every call
- Code, deploys, and docs yours from day one
- Walk away at the end of the contract clean
Ship your next thing from Austin
Discovery call is free. Quote is flat-price. You keep the code.