Not a prototype that falls over the first time somebody real uses it. A product with login, payments, tests, and monitoring, live and yours.
A real MVP from Continuum starts at $15,000, fixed once scoped. You get a launched product with login, payments, tests, and monitoring from day one, and you own the code from the first commit.
A login form that looks right but does not actually protect what is behind it.
A checkout that works in the demo and has never once taken a real card.
Every new thing you add quietly breaks something that used to work.
No monitoring, so the first time you hear it is down is from a user.
These are not a phase two.
Real authentication and sessions, the kind that stands up to someone trying to get past it.
Live checkout that has taken real money, with the failure cases handled.
Coverage on the parts that would cost you if they broke, so changes stop being scary.
You find out something is wrong before your users do.
Your repo, your accounts, from the first commit. No lock-in.
Six to twelve weeks, start to launched.
We agree exactly what the first version is, and I give you a fixed price before anything is built.
I build it, in the open, over six to twelve weeks, with the hard parts done first.
It goes live with login, payments, tests, and monitoring already in place.
Our prices are fixed before work starts. We do not bill by the hour. Here is every price that applies to getting a product built and kept running.
| What | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| MVP Build (new product) | from $15,000 | Fixed once scoped. Six to twelve weeks. Login, payments, tests and monitoring included. |
| Ship Fix (app built fast, now breaking) | $4,000 to $15,000 | Fixed scope. For a product that already exists. |
| Ship Check (a read of your code first) | $299 | Flat price. Tells you honestly what the code needs before you spend more. |
| Keep it running (after launch) | $500/mo | Monitoring, patching and incident cover, month to month. |
| Software firms, worldwide (hourly) | $25 to $49 an hour |
|---|---|
| Software firms, US (hourly) | $50 to $99 an hour |
| Average reviewed software project | About $132,000, around 13 months |
Source: Software Development Pricing Guide, Clutch, built from reviews by verified clients, updated September 2026. These are rates and averages for all software projects, not quotes for an MVP. Read the full breakdown in app development cost.
The last build went from a founder’s notes to an app in the App Store.
Same engineer for the whole thing. See the work →
“I would highly recommend Matthew for anyone trying to launch a new digital app/platform with the need for a highly skilled engineer and developer, to help to bring a vision to life.”
Shipping is the first half. The keep-alive plan is $500/mo, month to month: monitoring, security and dependency patching, incident triage. The same engineer who built it keeps it running, so the product you launched is still working a year later.
From $15,000, fixed once scoped. Tell me what you are trying to build. If it is smaller than an MVP Build, I will say so, and point you at the cheaper thing that fixes it.