Tell the story
Story, message, and a credible page to put in front of people.
Start Apps Studio is the founder-led digital product partner for new ventures, family businesses, and established teams. One person owns strategy, design, engineering, QA, and launch, so nothing is lost in handoffs.
Real products in users' hands, across healthcare, fintech, retail, and more.
A growing wellness business needed iOS and Android live before a pre-seed pitch, with six weeks to ship.
Built a React Native app with push notifications, a coach-facing admin dashboard, and subscription billing via RevenueCat. Shipped to both stores on week six, one week before the pitch.
Six months of freelance work left a B2B founder with a broken prototype and a client demo in two weeks.
Audited the codebase, rebuilt the data model and API layer, redesigned the core UI, and delivered a stable, demo-ready product in 11 days. The client signed the day after the demo.
A fintech founder needed a working product for a Series A meeting in seven weeks, not a clickable prototype.
Built a full-stack platform with Stripe Connect for multi-party payouts, real-time transaction feeds, and an admin console. Shipped in seven weeks with a clean codebase and full source handoff.
An edtech founder had a solid audience but only a waitlist landing page, and investors wanted to see a working product.
Built a video course platform with progress tracking, a quiz engine, and Stripe-gated enrollment in five weeks. The first cohort sold out within a week of launch.
An outsourced build came back incomplete, over budget, and with no documentation to hand over to the client.
Took over the project, wrote the missing search and listing API, rebuilt the map integration from scratch, and delivered a clean codebase with full source handoff in four weeks.
A founder had a compelling deck but no live product, with a Series A meeting locked in for ten days out.
Built an interactive web prototype on real infrastructure, with working data flows, auth, and a demo mode investors could tap through on their phone. Live in nine days.
From a credible brand presence to a full multi-platform product. Every package is built around the business outcome you need next: be understood, be trusted, validate demand, or serve real users.
Validate demand before you build. A conversion-focused page with email capture, analytics, and SEO.
Ship to the App Store and Play Store. Your product lives on users' home screens, not just in a browser tab.
A production-grade web app with accounts, payments, and a real database, ready for your first paying customers.
A real, launch-ready product for your first 100K–500K users. We scope, design, build, and launch the core experience in 1–2 months.
We help you choose what to build, what to prove first, and which path gets you to a useful product without paying for the wrong version.
We turn the idea, half-built app, or business brief into a sharp first release: the core user journey, the must-have features, and the work that can wait.
Launch site, clickable prototype, web app, or native iOS and Android? We compare the options, platform trade-offs, and existing tools before recommending the route.
We map the flows, design the key screens, and build against real scenarios. You see the product working on your phone or browser while decisions are still easy to change.
We ship the working version, connect the accounts, and hand over the code and keys. You leave with a live product, plus a clear next move based on what users do.
A clear route for your story, prototype, first product, or bigger build.
Need more than an AI-generated draft? Choose a thoughtful custom build with ongoing support when you need it.
Not an agency handoff. Not a marketplace match. Scoping your project is the same person designing, building, and shipping.
Most founders end up coordinating across agencies, independent specialists, and distributed teams before a product is ready. I built this studio to bring those moving parts into one accountable partnership. One owns the design, the code, the QA, and the deadline. You know who to call, and that person has the full context, so every decision moves your product forward.
Speak directly with the person making decisions, not an account manager passing messages.
See working previews, respond quickly, and fix issues before they become expensive.
Your code, accounts, and assets stay yours, whether you continue with me or bring in a team.
When your product outgrows one builder, a trusted partner path helps you scale without starting over.
Before this we were reshooting the same thing four times over and still not matching. Now every reel and every cover looks like it came from the same place. I don't have to explain the look to anyone anymore, it is just built into how we work. The journal covers were the part I was most nervous about and they have ended up being my favourite thing we have made.
We sell cheese, which is not a category people show up excited about online. The four-zone layout meant we stopped rebuilding every product page from scratch, and Manny gave the whole catalogue a personality it did not have before. Getting a new SKU live takes a fraction of the time it used to.
I'd been scrolling doors for weeks and they all looked identical in those white studio shots. Seeing the Onex actually slide open in a real office was the thing that made me stop. Ordered it the same week.
The meeting was locked in for ten days out and all I had was slides. What mattered was that it ran on real infrastructure, not a click-through mockup, because the first thing they did was hand it to their analyst to poke at. Live in nine days and the demo mode held up on someone else's phone.
We were reconciling by hand every Monday and still getting it wrong. Three weeks from kickoff we had one dashboard the whole team actually opens. The part I didn't expect was how much of the scoping conversation was about what to leave out.
Every appointment came through a phone call, which meant our front desk spent the day on hold instead of with patients. We took 800 bookings through the app in the first week alone. Getting it onto both stores without me having to learn what any of that involved was worth the engagement on its own.
Every client had their own sheet and none of them matched. Now three agencies are onboarded on the same portal and I've stopped dreading the end of the month. The handover doc meant my own developer could pick it up without a single call back.
Orders were coming in on paper and the kitchen was working blind during a rush. It's running across all four locations now. What sold me during the build was seeing it on a screen in the actual kitchen halfway through, not at the end.
We had donor history in a mailing list, a spreadsheet, and someone's memory. Four weeks later we launched with all of it in one place and raised $120k in the campaign. Being told upfront which features to cut is what got us there on time.
I needed something real in front of users before I committed to a full build. The beta went out and we had 200 signups in 48 hours, which answered the question I was actually asking. Owning the codebase from day one meant the next version didn't start from scratch.
Families were searching a global database and getting results that meant nothing where they actually lived. We needed localised search on live data across web and both mobile platforms, and we needed it built properly the first time because of who uses it. The MVP was live in three months and we were at 10,000 users six months after that.
We had a product and no visual language holding it together, which was a problem the moment anyone serious looked at us. The identity was designed in Figma and the site was built and live in under a month. The consortium acquisition came through the following week.
The product worked but the experience had gaps nobody had mapped, and users were falling into flows that just ended. The overhaul went through every state, including the ones we'd never designed for. Three to four months and we had an interface that matched what the product could actually do.
We were running email blasts with nothing behind them. No dashboard, no intake, no way for a client to manage their own sends. Five months later we had email push management, per-client customisation, and every flow designed end to end.
Building your first launch site, Figma-led prototype, or real MVP? Tell us what you’re trying to ship, who it’s for, and where you’re stuck. You’ll get a clear plan, a fixed price, and a realistic timeline from the person who will own the work.
A real founder reads every message. No bots, no SDR follow-ups.
Source code, accounts, designs, domains. Yours from day one.
Most builds go live within a month of kickoff.
What we quote is what you pay. No surprises, ever.
Pricing, timelines, and what each route lets you do next.
The public path has four routes: a $2,600 Launch Site for a credible story before the full product, a $6,000 Prototype to make the idea tangible for validation or fundraising, an MVP from $15,000 to $30,000 to put a real product in users' hands, and Custom from $25,000 or monthly retainer for a bespoke system. We agree on scope and price before work starts, so you know the investment behind the next milestone.
The MVP route typically ships in 3 to 8 weeks from kickoff, depending on scope. Launch Sites are typically delivered in 3 to 5 business days and Prototypes in 5 to 10 days. We work in tight weekly cycles with shared previews, so you can make the next decision from what you see rather than waiting until the end.
An MVP gives you the core product to learn from with real users: product design, a working iOS, Android, or web app, authentication, a database, payments where relevant, deployment to your accounts, and a basic landing page. You get the source code, a written handoff doc, and a walkthrough so a future team can pick up the next stage.
You do. All source code, design files, and third-party accounts (App Store, Google Play, hosting, database, payments) are created in your name and transferred to you. There is no lock-in to Start Apps Studio. You can keep building with us, take it to another team, or hire in-house.
Every build includes a 2-week post-launch window where we fix anything broken on us, free of charge. After that, you can run with the codebase, bring in an in-house engineer, or keep us accountable for the next stage through a monthly retainer. For larger or more complex products, Custom engagements can be structured around the 1–6 month build you need.
Yes. We frequently take over half-built apps from Lovable, Bolt, v0, Cursor, or freelance teams. We start with a short paid audit, give you an honest read on what is salvageable, and either rebuild the weak parts or finish the MVP. Either way, you walk away with a clean, shippable codebase you actually own.