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MVP Development

The smallest version of your product that real users can use: scoped in a day, built in weeks, measured from day one.

Decide what is nextJust now

An MVP is a decision about what not to build. Superstack runs MVP development NZ founders and internal venture teams use to put a real product in real hands within weeks: a workshop that cuts the feature list to one page, a fixed-scope build on a fixed timeline, and analytics from the first user onwards.

The problem

a feature list that keeps growing

  • Every week someone adds a feature, and every week the launch date moves to make room.
  • We have burned most of the budget and no user has touched anything yet.
  • Investors and first customers keep asking to see it, and all we have is a deck.
  • Everyone has a different idea of what to build first, so we keep building all of it.
  • Our no-code prototype got us this far, but it can't handle logins and every new screen breaks something.

What Superstack builds

MVP development that ships in weeks

Minimum viable product development is mostly subtraction. Every module below exists to get a smaller, sharper product in front of real users sooner, then tell you what they did with it.

Example workflow

The workshop produces the one-page scope, and the scope produces the price and the date. Design is a clickable prototype your first users react to before we write code. The build runs four to eight weeks. Beta users get in, analytics run from their first click, and at the end we look at the numbers and decide what is next. You decide what. We decide how.

  1. 1
    Workshop
  2. 2
    One-page scope
  3. 3
    Design
  4. 4
    4-8 week build
  5. 5
    Beta users
  6. 6
    Measure
  7. 7
    Decide what is next

Integrations

Stripe takes payments when the MVP charges from day one. Google and Apple sign-in mean no password screen to build. SendGrid sends the emails and Twilio the SMS. Analytics tools record what users do, and your accounting software connects when the MVP invoices.

Any system with an API connects. Click a logo to visit them.

Add AI when it actually makes sense

AI is optional, and in an MVP it is usually a later. Read about how we use AI and where it fits in business process automation.

Web app, mobile app and customer portal

Web app

Most MVPs start as a web app, because it reaches every user with a link and changes in minutes when the beta says so. Your first users sign in from any browser.

Mobile app

When the product only makes sense on a phone, MVP app development starts with a progressive web app or a cross-platform build, so one codebase covers iOS and Android and the store listing waits.

Customer portal

If the MVP serves a business, its customers get a simple portal, such as a booking page or a status view. All three share one database and one set of analytics.

Build options

FAQ

Smaller than you think. It is the least a real user needs to do the one job and come back: usually a login, one core workflow and a way to see the result. No settings page, no reporting suite. If a feature does not bring the first user back, it waits.

Four to eight weeks of build, after a one-day workshop and design. Where the scope is a single workflow, an MVP in six weeks is realistic. The date is fixed when the scope is fixed, and we protect it by moving new ideas to the later list, not into the build.

The honest answer depends on what survives the workshop. What we promise is a fixed price for the one-page scope, not revised unless you change the scope. A single-workflow MVP on existing Superstack modules sits at the low end. A bespoke product with payments and a mobile app sits higher.

Yes, when it is built that way. What separates an MVP from a throwaway prototype is underneath: a proper database, real logins and code that can grow. We keep the scope small, not the foundations. When the beta proves the idea, the should list becomes the next build on the same codebase.

Yes, for the first test. A landing page, a form and a spreadsheet will tell you whether anyone wants the thing. No, once real users need logins, data that must stay correct, an integration or logic the tool cannot express. Many reach us at that point, with a prototype that has hit its limits.

Then the MVP did its job. Finding out the first idea was wrong after weeks, not years, is what the process is for. Because sign-in, payments and the admin screen are generic, a pivot usually means rebuilding one workflow, not the product. The later list gets torn up and the workshop runs again.

Talk to Superstack

Built around the way you work.

Your business shouldn't have to fit someone else's software. Tell us how your business works. We'll show you what Superstack can build around it.

Send us your feature list. We'll send back the one-page MVP scope.