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By Statista 2025 the median hourly rate for a senior mobile engineer in San Francisco hit $145. That exact same skill set in Warsaw or Buenos Aires costs about $48. Looks like an easy arbitrage — until you learn that 37 % of founders who go “cheapest‑possible offshore” blow their budgets on re‑work and missed deadlines.

Olga Gubanova

June 13, 2025

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Can AI build me an app? You're not the only one wondering. Since 2022, over 630,000 tech workers have been laid off globally, and software development job postings in the U.S. have hit an all-time low (Statista). AI is rewriting the rules of app development

Olga Gubanova

June 13, 2025

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Getting funded is a major win, but here’s the harsh reality: 70% of startups burn their funding without ever achieving real growth (CB Insights). Why? Because building code is easy—but creating a software product that users want and investors love takes strategic discipline.

Olga Gubanova

June 13, 2025

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You got a $30K quote and still don’t know what you’re paying for? Most MVP cost calculators are either fluff or built on legacy models from the ‘80s. No surprise then that over 52% of software projects overshoot their budget or timeline — often because founders rely on generic estimates or gut feelings.

Olga Gubanova

June 13, 2025

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Most founders don’t blow money on code. They blow it on guesses. Guesses about scope, team size, delivery time, and “must-have” features. In this article, we show what it really costs to build a B2B MVP in 2025 — using real startup benchmarks, GitHub repos, delivery timelines, and global rates.

Olga Gubanova

June 13, 2025

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He joined the Zoom call pissed off. Not at us — at himself. “Three months ago, we hired a dev agency. Found them on Clutch. Great proposal, solid design, timeline, all clean. MVP for $45K.We gave them a brief. They started building. The demo looked fine. But now that it’s almost done… I don’t know why we built any of this.”

Olga Gubanova

June 13, 2025

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Roughly 9 out of 10 Flutter-agency “top lists” include vendors who paid for the placement—we audited 150 such rankings to confirm it. So we built an evidence-based alternative: publicly verified data on MVP launch speed, documented funding outcomes, and code-quality audits.

Olga Gubanova

June 13, 2025

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Most app development quotes include 15–30% hidden costs. Vendors know how to confuse non-technical founders, tacking on “API optimizations” or “backend adjustments” that should already be part of the package. Here’s a clear guide to spotting these tactics, negotiating smarter, and saving thousands without sacrificing quality.

Olga Gubanova

June 13, 2025

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In 2024, a solo founder with no tech background built a pregnancy meditation app on a $200 budget. She now makes over $10,000 a month. No pitch deck. No VCs. No co-founder. Just a niche problem, a cheap no-code tool — and the guts to launch before it was “perfect.”

Olga Gubanova

June 13, 2025

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Having AI in your app won’t impress investors in 2025. But not having it? That’s a red flag.Let’s cut through the noise: investors aren’t dazzled by “we use GPT” anymore. They’ve seen that pitch 300 times. What actually gets attention is when AI is tied to a real, high-stakes business problem — and shows up in the metrics.

Olga Gubanova

June 13, 2025

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A founder messaged us two weeks after launching his MVP:“We’ve spent $60K. Built what users asked for. Launched on Product Hunt. Now it’s quiet. Traffic’s flat. Retention’s trash. My dev team wants to add features. I don’t even know if we built the right thing.”Here’s what founders don’t expect (but should)

OLga Gubanova

June 13, 2025

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So you’re building a startup. You’ve got the vision, maybe even a prototype — but now it’s time to pitch investors. And here comes that slide everyone dreads: the financial forecast. “How am I supposed to project 3 years of revenue when I don’t even know next quarter?”

Olga Gubanova

June 13, 2025

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