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I'll design, build and ship your MVP in 30 days. For $1,000.

You've got the idea. Agencies want $15,000-$60,000. The last developer went quiet. And the AI build keeps falling over the second a real user touches it. Thirty days from now your idea is live on your own domain, ready for your first paying customer.

Watch the 1:44 below — exactly how the 30 days runs, day one to launch.

Pick a time below. It's a scoping call, it's free, and nothing gets paid until we've both agreed the 30 days is realistic.

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The obvious question

Why it's $1,000 .

You're reading this thinking: what's the catch. Fair. Here it is, in full.

You're paying one person, not six

An agency quoting this scope is billing you for a project manager, an account manager, a designer, a developer, a QA pass between them, and roughly 40% margin on top. I am all of those roles. Remove the layers and the number gets small fast.

There's no design-to-dev translation loss

The usual expensive failure: a designer hands off a Figma file, a developer builds something 80% like it, and you pay for the three rounds it takes to close the gap. I design it and I build it, so that gap costs nothing because it never opens.

Fixed scope, fixed price, quoted once

We agree the exact feature list before you pay. There are no hourly rates to inflate, no change orders, no "that's out of scope" email in week three. If we agreed it, it ships. If we didn't, it's a second sprint.

I only take 2 of these a month

This is a fixed-scope sprint running alongside my retainer work, not my whole business. Two at a time is what I can ship properly at this price. When the slots are gone they're gone until the following month.

What the same scope costs elsewhere

Dev shop / agency 3–6 months

$25,000 – $60,000

Two freelancers (design + dev) 2–4 months, you project-manage

$8,000 – $15,000

Offshore team, hourly open-ended, scope creeps

$4,000 – $12,000

This 30 days, fixed

$1,000

I'm not claiming those numbers are wrong. They're what it genuinely costs to run a team. I don't run a team.

One project, in full

Boredlandlord .

Property management March 2025 – April 2025 Shipped in 32 days

$20,000 spent with previous developers

8 months of build time

0 features live to a single user

What he arrived with

A Figma file covering about half the product, drawn by a designer who'd already moved on.
A codebase two developers had taken turns on. It ran locally. It had never been deployed.
Eight months of Slack threads and no way to tell which decisions still applied.
No trust left. The first thing he asked me was how he'd know I wouldn't do the same thing.

Boredlandlord's properties screen: a list of units tagged residential, condo and occupied or unoccupied, with open task counts, and a sidebar for applications, people, leases, payment, tasks and maintenance, and rent receipts. — What came out the other side: properties, applications, leases, rent and maintenance in one place.

What happened in the 32 days

Days 1–2

Scope, before any money moved

We went through the Figma file and cut it. Tenant applications, lease agreements, rent collection, maintenance requests, tenant comms — that was the product. Everything else went on a list for later. He approved a written scope doc before he paid anything.

Scope doc — 14 screens, 5 features, signed off

Week 1

Design, all of it

Every screen in the scope, designed. Not a style direction to react to — the actual screens, clickable in Figma. He reviewed on Wednesday, gave notes, reviewed again Friday. Design was closed before a line of product code got written.

Figma — 14 screens, 2 review rounds

Weeks 2–3

Build

Auth and landlord accounts first, then properties, then the rent and payments flow, then maintenance requests and the task board. It went to a staging URL on day 8 — he could click through his own product two weeks before launch, which is the part he says he'd never had before.

Staging live day 8 · Wed + Fri updates in Slack

Week 4

Ship

Production deploy to his own domain, a bug pass against the full flow, then handover: his GitHub, his hosting account, his Stripe, his domain. I own nothing of his product.

Live on his domain · repo + accounts transferred

Where it landed

Shipped on his own domain on day 32, with real landlords using it.
Shipped in 32 days — 28 fewer than the 8 months that came before it.
Still partners. He came back and we built Capsured together next.
He's referred other founders to me since.

What happened next

Then he came back .

Capsured Luxury car management Live product ↗

The sprint wasn't a one-off. Sam came back with a second product and we built it together: Capsured, a management platform for luxury car collections — the cars, their maintenance schedules, service history and documents, in one place instead of a folder and a group chat.

$60M+ worth of cars managed on the platform

2nd product built with the same founder

Live at capsured.com, clickable right now

Sam Holako

Founder — Boredlandlord, now Capsured

Daniel made me save so much money and time, sincerely? I love him.

Sam Holako Capsured

Sam Holako, Founder — Boredlandlord, now Capsured

Line by line

What $1,000 buys .

So you're not guessing what's inside the number.

✅ Included

$1,000 · 30 days

A scoping session and a written scope doc Before you pay. We agree the exact screens and features in writing, and that document is what I'm held to.

Design for every screen in scope In Figma, clickable, reviewed by you twice in week 1. The file is yours to keep whatever happens afterwards.

Auth and user accounts Sign up, log in, password reset, profile, roles if your product needs them.

Your one core feature The thing your product actually is. Built properly, not stubbed.

A dashboard around it Where your users see and manage their stuff. Empty states included, because most builds skip them.

Payments, if you're charging Stripe or Paystack, checkout and subscription handling wired into your account, not mine.

Deployed to your own domain On your hosting, your database, your accounts. Live and reachable by a real user on day 30.

100% of the code, from day one In your GitHub org from the first commit, not handed over at the end. You can pull it and hire anyone else at any point.

30 days of bug fixes after launch Days 31–60. Something's broken, I fix it, you don't pay again.

And what it doesn't buy. This list is here because nobody running a scam volunteers their limits — and because if your thing is on it, we should both find out now rather than in week three.

❌ Not included

Native iOS or Android apps Web only. It'll work properly on a phone and can be installable, but it won't be in the App Store.

More than one core feature Two big features is two sprints. I'd rather tell you that than ship you half of each.

Anything that can't fit 30 days Training your own AI models, real-time video, on-chain anything, two-sided marketplaces with escrow and disputes. These are real projects. They are not 30-day projects, and I'll say so on the call.

Rescuing a large existing codebase I build fresh. Inheriting someone else's half-finished system is slower than starting over and I can't price it at a flat rate.

Feature work after day 30 Bug fixes are free for 30 days. New features are a separate monthly arrangement, quoted separately, and entirely optional.

Your running costs Domain, hosting, database, Stripe fees. They're on your accounts and you pay them directly — usually $0–40/month at launch. I'd rather you own them than rent them from me.

Brand identity, logo, marketing copy I'll design your product beautifully. I'm not a brand studio and won't charge you as if I were.

The actual 30 days

What happens, and when .

So the deadline reads as a plan rather than a marketing number.

Days 1–2

Scope

A call, then a written scope: every screen, every feature, what's out. You approve it. Only then does money move and the clock start.

Your part: 45 minutes on a call, then read one document.

Week 1

Design

Every screen in the scope, designed in Figma and clickable. Two review rounds — Wednesday and Friday. Design closes at the end of week 1 so the build isn't chasing a moving target.

Your part: Two rounds of notes. Blunt ones are better.

Weeks 2–3

Build

Auth, then your core feature, then the dashboard, then payments. A staging URL goes up around day 8 and stays current — you click through your real product while it's being built, not after.

Your part: Click the staging link twice a week. Send API keys and content when I ask.

Week 4

Ship

Production deploy to your domain, a full bug pass, then handover: repo, hosting, database, payment account, domain. All in your name.

Your part: Accept the transfers. Launch it.

Days 31–60

Support

Bug fixes, free. Same Slack channel, same response times.

Your part: Tell me when something breaks.

How you'll know it's moving

A shared Slack channel from day 1 — you, me, nobody else.
Written updates every Wednesday and Friday, whether the news is good or not.
A staging URL from around day 8 that always reflects what's built.
My calendar link, for when a message isn't enough.

Where the risk sits

Two things I'll put in writing .

You've been burned by a developer before — most people reading this page have. So the risk shouldn't be sitting with you.

Before you pay

The scoping call comes first

We scope your product before any money moves. If it doesn't fit in 30 days, I tell you on that call and we don't start. Nobody takes your deposit and discovers the problem in week three.

After you pay

Not live on day 30, you don't pay

Day 30 arrives and your product isn't deployed and usable? You pay nothing and you keep the code and the designs anyway — they've been in your GitHub since day one.

The one carve-out, stated plainly: the clock pauses when I'm waiting on you. If I need an API key, your content, or a design decision and it takes you four days, those four days move the deadline. You'll see it in the Wednesday update the same week — not for the first time on day 30.

Frequently Asked Questions .

Why is it only $1,000? What's the catch?

There's no catch, there's a structure. You're paying one person instead of a team, so there's no project manager, no account manager, no agency margin and no design-to-dev handoff to pay for twice. The scope and the price are fixed before you pay, so there's nothing to inflate later. The genuine limit is volume: I take 2 of these a month. That's what I can ship properly at this price alongside my other work.

What if my product doesn't fit in 30 days?

Then I tell you on the scoping call, before you've paid anything. Some things genuinely don't fit — a two-sided marketplace with escrow, a trained AI model, real-time video. I'd rather lose the sale on the call than take your money and hand you something unfinished on day 30. Sometimes there's a smaller version that does fit, and we'll find it on the call if there is.

Who actually does the work? Do you outsource it?

Me. Product, design, engineering, deployment. No subcontractors, no junior on the side doing the parts you'd notice. That's the entire reason the price and the timeline work. The moment I hand a piece of it to someone else, the handoff cost comes back and so does the agency number.

What if I hate the design?

Week 1 exists precisely for that. You see every screen before any product code is written, and you get two rounds of notes — Wednesday and Friday. Design closes at the end of week 1. That's not me limiting you, it's what makes the 30 days possible. If the design is still moving in week 3, the ship date moves with it, and I'd rather protect the ship date.

Do I own the code?

Completely, and from the first commit — not at the end. The repository lives in your GitHub account from day one. The Figma file is yours. The hosting, the database and the payment account are opened in your name. If you decide on day 12 that you'd rather finish it with someone else, everything is already sitting in your accounts and you don't need my permission for any of it.

What happens on day 31?

You have a live product and I fix bugs in it free for another 30 days, in the same Slack channel. After that, nothing is owed in either direction. If you want me building new features, there's a separate monthly arrangement we'd quote then. If you want to take it in-house or to another developer, everything's already yours and I'll spend an hour walking them through it.

What do you actually need from me during the 30 days?

Less than you'd think, but it isn't zero: 45 minutes on the scoping call, two rounds of design notes in week 1, and a reply when I ask for an API key, your content or a decision. The honest version: the projects that slip are the ones where I'm waiting four days for an answer. That's the one thing that moves a deadline.

How do I know you won't take the money and disappear?

Reasonable question, and the reason this page is built the way it is. You can verify all of it before you pay: the founders are named and reachable, and the second product I built with the founder on this page — Capsured — is live and clickable at capsured.com. Your repository is in your GitHub from the first commit. And if it isn't live on day 30, you don't pay. The cheapest check available to you: message Sam Holako, whose project is on this page, and ask him directly.

How many are you taking?

2 a month. When they're taken, the next opening is the following month, and I'll tell you that on the call rather than starting a third one badly.