MVP development company for US startups that ships while you sleep
We take your idea to a live product in 4-8 weeks. Our working day runs while you sleep, so you open your laptop to shipped work instead of a status meeting, with full repository access from the first commit.
- Idea to MVP
- 4-8 wks
- Equity taken
- $0
- Code & IP yours
- 100%
What slows US founders down before launch
The idea usually isn't the blocker. Getting a scoped, working version out the door is.
Hiring a first engineer takes months you don't have
A US-based senior engineer takes weeks to recruit, and more time to ramp up, time that a pre-seed runway rarely has to spare.
Contractor quotes assume a full roadmap, not a phase 1
Many contracting quotes price the whole vision instead of the one or two flows a first version needs to prove out with users or investors.
A demo isn't the same as a codebase that survives diligence
Prototype-grade code built for a pitch deck often can't stand up to a technical review once a term sheet is on the table.
What a DevForge MVP includes
A product your first users can sign up to and your next investor can inspect.
- A fixed phase-1 estimate, agreed before any code is written
- UX and UI design for the core flow your users and investors will judge you on
- A web app and/or iOS and Android apps (React Native or Flutter)
- Backend, database, sign-in and an admin view for running the product day to day
- Payments, notifications and analytics wired up for launch
- Automated tests and a clean architecture built to hold up under technical due diligence
- Full repository access from the first commit, plus documentation
Built around how US founders actually work
Overnight progress, a live weekly checkpoint, and code a technical reviewer can trust.
We build while you sleep
Our 9am-6pm IST day sits overnight relative to US business hours, so it doesn't overlap ET or PT during the day. What that buys you: you close your laptop after a day of customer calls and fundraising, and open it to a progress update, working staging build and a Loom walkthrough of what shipped while you were out. We also hold a weekly video call, scheduled at an agreed time in ET or PT.
Code written for a Series A technical review
Automated tests, documented architecture and CI are standard practice for us, not something we add before a raise. You get full repository access from the first commit, so nothing about how the codebase was built is a surprise when someone looks under the hood.
Scoped for accelerator and demo-day timelines
If you're inside a YC batch or another accelerator program, tell us your milestone date on the free call and we scope phase 1 to hit it, rather than handing you a generic roadmap.
How it works
From first call to live product in 4-8 weeks.
Free 30-min call
Walk us through your idea. You leave with the biggest risks and a realistic estimate. No obligation.
Product blueprint (weeks 1-2)
Scope, tech stack, architecture and a phase-1 roadmap before any code is written.
Build and test (weeks 2-7)
Weekly demos of working software. Security and performance testing before anything goes live.
Launch and grow (week 8+)
Go live, then iterate on real user feedback. Hand off to your own team whenever you are ready.
Our proof is the Australian founders we've shipped with. Gooday, Bookish, Metaboly and StrongHERside are all live products we built end to end.
Work for founders in the US and beyond
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Tell us what you're building
30 minutes with our founder. You'll leave with a clear next step, whether or not we work together.
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