New York City
MVP development for NYC founders
New York founders
NYC is the second-biggest pre-seed metro in the US and AngelList's biggest solo-founder hub. Hiring senior engineers here is a 90-day fight against FAANG comp expectations and a dozen well-funded fintechs. We are a one-engineer shop that ships product in one-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
How this works
One AI-native engineer.
The output of a team.
Senior engineers who deploy AI agents as force multipliers, shipping what traditional teams of 3 to 4 used to, at half the cost. Built specifically for pre-seed to Series A founders in New York.
The local read
Why this works for NYC
NYC founders have it harder than the headline funding numbers suggest. Half your top engineering candidates are deciding between your seed-stage offer and a $400K Google package. The dev agencies in town either bill agency-of-record rates by the hour or are staffing shops shoveling juniors into your team.
We are none of that. One senior engineer owns your build from spec to deploy, flat-priced after a discovery call. Same time zone as your investors at General Catalyst, your customers in midtown, and your weekly standup.
Time zone
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Eastern Time, same as you. Meetings happen during your morning coffee, not midnight Slack pings.
Sectors we work in here
What you actually get
A working product.
Live in weeks, not quarters.
Flat-price quote after a 30-minute discovery call. One named senior engineer owns it from spec to deploy. Source code in your GitHub from day one — no lock-in, no “our platform”, no surprise invoices.
The three builds founders in New York ask for most
Production MVPs in 1 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
Every build ships with
Live production URL
On your domain, day of launch
Your GitHub repo
Code yours from commit 1
Stripe + auth wired
Login, payments, webhooks done
You + me on Slack
Async, same-day replies
Built from New York
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Why founders pick
path B in New York
Same shipped product. Different cost, different speed, different risk. Here is how year one plays out.
Path A
The expensive way
Hiring in NYC
- $310K year-one cost per senior engineer
- 90+ days to fill the role at competitive comp
- 40% chance they leave inside year one
- You compete with Google, Stripe, and a dozen fintechs
- Three-month notice when it does not work out
Year-one outlay
$310K+before shipping a line of code
Path B
Our way
Working with us
- Lean MVPs from $5K, 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
Year-one outlay
from $5Kper shipped build, week 1 live
Not in New York?
We ship from 11 cities.
Worldwide.
Tap any pin to read what working with us looks like from that founder ecosystem. The New York pin is where you are now.
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Founders here usually ask
- How fast can you start a build?
- What does a typical quote look like?
- Do we own the code from day one?
- Do you have customers in New York?
Valery Satsura
CEO · Start Matter · usually replies in minutes
Hey, I'm Valery. Ask me anything about working with us from New York.
Ship your next thing from New York
Discovery call is free. Quote is flat-price. You keep the code.