services
Your MVP, live in four weeks. One engineer writes all of it.
MVP development for founders: two-week sprints at $6,000 each. Updraft went from brief to live MVP in four weeks and has since taught 200,000+ students.
Four weeks is two sprints: $12,000. Each sprint ends with working code on a live URL, and you decide if you book the next one.
Who this is for
Founders with funding or revenue, a launch date, and no senior engineer for the build.
Founders who want a first release that real users sign in to, and pay for if the product charges.
Founders who want the price before the first call. It is $6,000 per sprint.
Who it is not for
Teams that need twenty engineers. I am one.
Procurement-heavy enterprise contracts, or long-term staffing.
A new build in a stack other than SvelteKit.
Design from scratch. I work from your designer's files, or I introduce a designer I work with.
You already have a prototype from Lovable, Bolt, Replit, or v0? Start from your prototype instead.
What four weeks built for Cyfrin
Cyfrin needed a learning platform for Web3 developers. I built the MVP alone: API, database, and SvelteKit frontend. At the end of week four, Updraft had:
Courses, sections, and lessons, served by a REST API and a headless CMS.
A lesson screen with code examples, interactive challenges, and autosaved progress.
Sign-in and account management.
A dashboard of course progress and completed lessons.
A working deployment with a first course and beta users in it.
Certificates, quizzes, and multi-language support came after the MVP. Later I owned the frontend as the team grew. Updraft has since taught 200,000+ students. Read the Updraft case study.
Words from clients
Justin did a killer job for us, organizing and planning out the first part of our education platform, and honestly, we wouldn't have been able to launch it without him.
He came in and built it from scratch from the very beginning in SvelteKit, he was an integral part of the team as we built up the team around him to be able to support a larger platform like updraft. It was a fantastic experience with Justin.
We would definitely come back to him when we need another extra pair of hands on the SvelteKit side.
Just ten out of ten. Huge kudos.
Thank you, Justin. Bye.
Justin is a delight to work with.
From the start of the project to the end, he made sure to be on par with the scope and even went beyond our expectations.
What started as a business partnership has now evolved into a close relationship between our two businesses, NerdyJoe and Okupter.
Justin helped me implement some tricky authentication. The experience was seamless.
He’s calm, professional, always listening and very efficient. His debugging skills were impressive.
Of course, he knows Svelte/kit inside out. I felt I was in good hands. I’d recommend him to anyone.
What one sprint can ship for a new product
Three example scopes. We write the acceptance criteria for yours before the sprint starts.
The spine. Sign-in, the core data model, and the one screen your users come for, deployed on your domain.
Billing. One subscription plan with one payment provider: a checkout, a webhook that updates the account, and a page to change or cancel the plan.
A dashboard. The agreed metrics, filters, and a detail view, on the API from the first sprint.
A product with accounts, billing, a dashboard, and a CMS usually needs more than one sprint. See the full sprint terms.
How it works
01 / Scope by email. Send me what the product does and your launch date. I reply within one business day. We agree on the first release by email, with a short call if useful.
02 / Start on a sprint Monday. You pay upfront. New sprints start every other Monday.
03 / Mid-sprint sync. One 30-minute call halfway through. Async updates and small pull requests the rest of the time.
04 / Deploy. Working code on a live URL at the end of week two.
05 / Handover. A short Loom or document: what shipped, what is open, and what sprint two could cover. You own the code from day one.
Price and refund
$6,000 per two-week sprint. Paid upfront, after we agree on scope and a start date. No hourly overflow. You can pause or stop between sprints, and the price stays the same.
Something usable after the first sprint. Or I refund it. If the first sprint does not ship something usable, you get a full refund.
FAQ
Here, all of the build: scope, code, deploy, and handover, from one engineer. Each sprint has a 30-minute sync, small pull requests, and a Loom or document at the end. Design is not included.
$6,000 per sprint. Updraft took two sprints, so $12,000. You pay one sprint at a time, so you never owe more than $6,000 in advance.
Updraft took four weeks from brief to a live MVP. For yours, we cut the first release until it fits the number of sprints you agree to.
One developer. Okupter is my solo product studio. I write the code, run the sync, and do the deploy. No junior or subcontractor writes your code.
SvelteKit with TypeScript for new builds. The repository is yours from day one.
GMT+1 to GMT+3. That overlaps with European mornings and US afternoons.