How much does it cost to engage WH Studio?

Engagements are scoped after a discovery call. Most projects begin with a fixed-scope proposal covering milestones, deliverables, and timeline.

How quickly can you start a new project?

Most projects can begin within one to two weeks once scope, timeline, and priorities are aligned.

Do you work with US startups and distributed product teams?

Yes. Projects are structured for US startups and globally distributed teams with clear communication windows and milestone-based delivery.

What is your development process?

Each engagement moves through discovery, architecture, UI implementation, backend delivery, testing, and launch support with clear documentation throughout.

What is SaaS MVP development?

SaaS MVP development is the process of building the smallest version of a multi-tenant software product that can validate the market, win paying users, and unlock the next funding round. It is narrower than full SaaS development: only the workflows, billing, and auth needed to prove the core value proposition.

How is a SaaS MVP different from a regular MVP?

A SaaS MVP must ship multi-tenancy, subscription billing, role-based access, and basic admin from day one - even if the feature surface is tiny. A regular MVP can skip those primitives. Designing them in upfront avoids a painful re-platform once you hit your first 50 paying accounts.

How long does a SaaS MVP take to build?

Most SaaS MVPs ship in 10-16 weeks. The first 2 weeks are discovery and scope, 6-10 weeks are core build (auth, billing, the 3-5 must-have workflows), and the final 2 weeks are hardening, deploy, and post-launch instrumentation.

How much does SaaS MVP development cost in the US?

A focused SaaS MVP from WH Studio starts at $30K-$60K. A scale-ready SaaS MVP with SSO, advanced billing logic, and SOC 2-prep architecture typically lands at $60K-$120K. See our SaaS development cost guide for a full breakdown.

What tech stack do you use for SaaS MVPs?

Next.js + React on the frontend, Node.js (or serverless) APIs, PostgreSQL with row-level tenant isolation, Stripe for billing, and Vercel or AWS for hosting. The stack is chosen for fast iteration today and an easy hand-off to an in-house team later.

SaaS MVP Development · From $30,000

SaaS MVPs built to earn the next round.

WH Studio builds SaaS MVPs the way founders actually need them: small in scope, but with the multi-tenant, billing, and security primitives that prevent a painful re-platform after your first 50 paying accounts.

Scope My SaaS MVP Compare with Standard MVP

10-16 wks · Next.js · Stripe · Supabase · Postgres

What every SaaS MVP needs

Built right from day one.

Multi-Tenant Foundation

Workspace + role models, tenant isolation, and a billing-ready schema you can scale without re-platforming.

Subscription Billing

Stripe subscriptions, trials, proration, and webhooks wired in from day one — not bolted on after launch.

Core Product Workflows

The 3-5 workflows your users will judge the product on, built with senior product engineers, not juniors.

Security & Compliance Ready

SSO-ready auth, audit logging, and the security primitives investors and enterprise pilots ask about.

Product Analytics

Activation, retention, and conversion events instrumented so you can prove traction in your next raise.

Launch + Iterate

Cloud deploy, monitoring, and a 4-week post-launch iteration loop based on real user behavior.

SaaS MVP timeline

A typical WH Studio SaaS MVP, end to end.

Weeks 1-2: Scope & architecture
Decide the 3-5 workflows, design tenant model, lock pricing + billing logic.
Weeks 3-8: Core build
Auth, multi-tenancy, Stripe, the must-have workflows, admin surface.
Weeks 9-12: Hardening + launch
Security review, performance, deploy, instrument analytics.
Weeks 13-16: Iterate
Ship 2-3 improvements based on real user behavior before the next raise.

Field notes

A SaaS MVP that earns the next round.

Series A investors increasingly fund founders with a working SaaS in market, not a deck with a roadmap. A SaaS MVP is now a fundraising prerequisite, not a fundraising outcome. The bar is: real auth, real billing, real activation, real retention — on day 90.

One workflow, all the way through

The SaaS MVPs that earn the next round ship one workflow end-to-end — signup, activation, paid conversion — with instrumentation on every step. Two workflows is the most common scope mistake, and it almost always means neither one ships at the depth needed to convert.

The stack we ship on

Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, Drizzle, Resend, Vercel. The full reasoning, with trade-offs, lives in our SaaS MVP tech stack 2026 guide. We deviate from this stack only when the product itself is the stack.

Cost and timeline, honestly

$60K–$180K, 90 days, senior team. Cheaper is usually slower in practice, and slower compounds against you because every month of delay costs measurable first-year ARR. The line-item breakdown is in our SaaS MVP cost breakdown.