No price until a sales call
Sometimes legitimate for genuinely bespoke work. Often it means the price depends on what they think you can pay.
Buyer’s guide
How to Choose an MVP Development Company
Most of the risk in hiring a development partner is visible before you sign, if you ask the right questions.
How do I choose an MVP development company?
Judge them on four things: whether they will cut your scope rather than agree to everything, whether their pricing is specific before you talk to sales, whether you own the code at the end, and whether they support the product after launch. A partner who agrees to your entire feature list on the first call is telling you they will not protect your launch date.
Questions worth asking
Ask all of these. The answers are more revealing than any portfolio.
- What would you cut from my scope, and why? A partner unwilling to cut anything is selling hours, not outcomes.
- Who owns the code at the end, and how is it handed over? Get the answer in writing.
- Is hosting, SSL, maintenance and support inside the price or billed separately?
- What is your process when something slips? Everyone slips; what matters is when you find out.
- Who exactly is building it, and are they the people in this meeting?
- What happens after launch, do you support it, or is it a handover and goodbye?
- Can I talk to a client whose product you shipped?
Warning signs
None of these are automatically disqualifying, but each deserves a straight answer.
Agreement with everything
If nobody pushes back on your scope in the first conversation, nobody will push back when the timeline is at risk either.
Vague technology answers
"Modern stack" is not an answer. You should be able to find out what your product is built in before it is built.
No answer on code ownership
The single most important commercial term. Ambiguity here is not an oversight.
Agency, freelancer or in-house
Freelancers can be the right call when you have strong technical leadership already and the build is narrow and well specified. You are buying hands, and you supply the direction.
An agency makes sense when you need design, development, testing and launch run as one process, and when you want continuity afterwards rather than re-hiring for every change.
In-house is usually the wrong first move. Hiring is slow and expensive, and a permanent team before product-market fit commits you to a burn rate before you know what you are building. Most teams outsource to validate, then bring it in-house once the roadmap is long enough to keep engineers busy.
Where urMvp stands on each of these
So you can hold us to the same questions.
- Pricing is published before you speak to anyone, from €499/month for an MVP web application.
- Code ownership: at the end of the 12-month plan you can continue month-to-month, upgrade, or have the codebase transferred to you.
- Hosting, SSL, monthly updates and support are inside the plan, not extra.
- Every product is custom-built. No templates, no page builders.
- Support continues after launch through the subscription rather than ending at handover.
- Our shipped work is public, see the case studies, each linked to the live product.
Frequently asked questions
Freelancers suit a narrow, well-specified build where you provide technical leadership. An agency suits a build where design, development, testing and launch need running as one process, and where you want continuity after launch.
Ask to see products they have shipped that are live now, and ask to speak to the client. A portfolio of designs is not the same as a portfolio of launched products.
Scope and what is explicitly out of it, the timeline and what happens if it moves, what the price includes, code and IP ownership, and the terms for ending or transferring the engagement.
Ready to build it?
urMvp designs, builds and launches startup MVPs in 14 to 30 business days, from €499/month. Tell us the idea and we will come back with a scope and a price.