We build quality products with our passion. Yes, it is 100% better than AI-slop.
Recommended to start
Your First Website
From $200
✓ Absolutely better than vibe-coding: respectable, trustworthy design
✓ You tell your idea, we take care of everything within 5–7 days
✓ Domain included with zero extra charges for your first year
Your First App
From $500
✓ Figure out your real v0.1: we cut the bloat so you don't burn savings
✓ Make it happen in 14–20 days with real devices, database & auth
✓ Professional design + senior engineering that actually works
Vibe-Code Website Killer
$400–$600
✓ Kill generic AI templates: bespoke, respected website for your brand
✓ Built for maximum visibility on Google and modern AI search engines
✓ Proprietary in-house CMS for easy publishing + 6 months free support
For Funded Startups
Track A: $350–$1,100 | Track B: Partner
Track A: Fixed Milestones
Clickable pitch prototype for investors ($350–$700) or complete production MVP ($700–$1,100).
Track B: Studio Co-Builder
Fractional CTO & technical partner under hybrid equity/revenue-share models.
Digital Solutions for SMEs
1st Milestone: $800–$1,200
✓ Find where you actually need software (and AI) without agency bloat
✓ 100% risk-free milestones: each tool works on its own, pause or resume
✓ Complete peace of mind: 100% client account ownership, zero lock-in
Additional Services
Specialized advisory, technical design, and architectural guidance available on fixed or per-unit terms.
Consultation
$150/ hr
UX Audit
$100/ flow
UX Research — Startup Level
$650
UX Research — Corporate Level
$2,000
Engineering Solution
$180/ man-day
What We Do Not Work On.
1. Illegal solutions, casinos, or any product that we consider unsafe for the public.
2. Projects that realistically require hundreds of full-time designers and engineers, or high-stakes enterprise contracts that compromise our lean studio flexibility.
3. Requests to simply code a pile of features without questions, architecture assessment, or product discovery.
Take a peep into our mind
Not just articles. Insights we could've gatekept, but clearly didn't.
Figure out your real v0.1: 1 complete end-to-end user loop with live database, secure authentication & real physical device builds without burning savings.
Figure 1.1: Milestone 1 extracts and delivers the single critical user loop on real physical devices.
1. The $20,000 Roadblock
Building a custom app has historically been an intimidating roadblock for founders and small business owners. When you approach traditional software development agencies, you are met with proposals starting at $15,000 to $30,000, 4-month development horizons, and heavy technical jargon.
The fatal problem with that model is that the commercial viability of the idea remains completely unproven. Committing five figures to an unverified software product is not sensible entrepreneurship—it is an expensive gamble.
We built the Your First App track because we were in your shoes for years. We know the pain of holding an idea in your head, wishing you had the technical firepower to bring it into the real world. We bring senior engineering rigor to build your core loop at a grounded, milestone-based price of $500.
Founder Reality Check: The seductive illusion of solo vibe-coding
With modern AI code generators, it is tempting to think you can build an entire production app solo over a weekend. You can generate clean UI layouts quickly. But when you hit database race conditions, offline cache synchronization, and secure multi-tenant data isolation, AI tools hallucinate. Founders end up burning hundreds of dollars in API tokens and weeks of sanity cleaning up fragile architecture. Deciding what NOT to build is the real craft.
2. Should This Be a Phone App or a Web App?
One of the first strategic choices we make together is platform architecture. Before you pay Apple Developer registration fees and navigate Google Play closed-tester policies, we evaluate whether your product needs native hardware features or if a high-performance Web App will reach paying users faster.
Real-World Case Study: The Falconry Logging System
A client came to us with a vision for an extensive falconry habitat tracking application. Traditional firms estimated the project at $18,000 with social feeds, video uploads, and community forums. We challenged that scope and extracted the single indispensable loop: logging sighting locations with offline GPS and syncing records upon reconnecting. We delivered that functional core in 14 days for $500. The founder validated genuine user demand before investing another dollar.
3. The 14-Day Delivery Roadmap
Milestone Delivery Sequence
Window
Milestone Focus
Tangible Deliverables
Day 1–3
Core Loop Isolation
Map the single critical user journey; strip non-essential feature creep.
Day 4–7
Database & Auth Sprint
PostgreSQL database schema setup, secure authentication, API routes.
Day 8–11
Client-Side Build
Native mobile build (Flutter/TypeScript) with live data integration.
Day 12–14
Testing & Handover
Physical device installation, user walkthrough, clean repository handover.
Building software is the straightforward part; discovering the leanest possible v0.1 that proves customer demand is the true craft.
— Spacematter Engineering Philosophy
4. Honest Scope Boundaries: What This Milestone Is NOT
We value your time too much to give false promises. This $500 milestone will not produce a bloated 15-screen enterprise system with AI chatbots and multi-level payment tiers.
It delivers one complete, rock-solid, production-grade user loop. If you want to understand the team economics of expanding beyond this validation milestone, explore our breakdown on Why Custom Apps Are So Expensive.
