San Francisco MVP development — for the city that invented the MVP.
Eric Ries wrote Lean Startup in San Francisco. The MVP concept was born here. RCB Software builds SF MVPs that honor the original intent: the minimum product to validate the hypothesis, built to production quality.
San Francisco founder who needs an MVP built to validate the hypothesis before the seed round
SF MVP development has a specific challenge: the founder has talked to investors, knows what the product needs to be, and now needs to build it before the seed round closes or the next YC batch starts.
The SF MVP timeline: YC application to interview to funding to demo: 6 months. In those 6 months, a focused MVP can be designed, built, deployed, and validated with early users. 8-12 weeks for the build.
What SF investors want to see:
- A product that works — not a Figma prototype
- Real users with early feedback
- Architecture that doesn't need a full rewrite at Series A
- A technical partner who can explain the decisions
MVP deployed in 8-12 weeks — hypothesis-testable, investor-demonstrable, Series A ready
SaaS MVP
for YC and seed-stage companies
AI-integrated MVP
for SF's AI-first startups
B2B platform MVP
Developer tool MVP
Consumer app MVP
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
MVP deployed in 8-12 weeks — hypothesis-testable, investor-demonstrable, Series A ready
Three steps, every time.
The same repeatable engagement on every project. No surprises, no mystery, no billable ambiguity.
Brief & discovery.
We send you questions, then get on a call. Output: a written scope with every step, feature, and integration listed.
Build & ship.
Fixed schedule, weekly reviews. No scope creep unless you change the scope — and if you do, we reprice it transparently.
Warranty & retainer.
30-day warranty on every launch. Most clients stay on a monthly retainer for ongoing features and maintenance.
Why Fixed-Price Matters Here
SF seed round budgets are large but burn rates are high. Fixed-price development is a defined cost in the model.
Questions, answered.
One core value prop demonstrated end-to-end. Working with real data. One cohort of beta users with feedback. Not a design prototype — a deployed application.
Tell Ryel about your project.
Describe what you’re building and what outcome you need. You’ll have a written, fixed-price scope within the week.