Building an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) at NedDev costs from €15,000 and typically takes 8 to 16 weeks. A good MVP tests one core hypothesis with the minimal set of features needed for it. The biggest pitfall is scope creep: too many features in version one. Work in phases, launch early, measure real usage and only then expand based on data instead of assumptions.
Most failed MVP projects do not break on technology, they break on scope. An MVP that needs 30 features before it can go live is not an MVP, it is a v1.0 with a different label. At NedDev an MVP starts from €15,000 and we prefer to launch within 8 to 16 weeks. Here is how you keep that achievable.
A Minimum Viable Product tests one central assumption with the smallest possible build. The question is not "what would the user want", but "what is the minimum needed to prove that people pay for this or use this". Anything that does not answer that one question does not belong in version one.
With CalorForm, our AI fitness PWA, we started with one working loop: enter a food photo and get an AI analysis back. No social feed, no coach marketplace, no subscription model in version one. That came only after the core behavior was proven.
Scope is a choice problem, not a technical problem. We follow a fixed method:
This discipline often saves half the budget. JinSulate proves it: the first version did exactly one thing, turning a construction drawing into an insulation report, and nothing else. No user management with roles, no invoicing module, no multi-language support. Those came only after the first American users proved they were willing to pay for the core function.
A handy test: for every feature someone proposes, ask whether the product can still prove the hypothesis without it. If the answer is yes, the feature goes to phase two. If not, it belongs in the MVP. That one question prevents most budget overruns.
The price depends on complexity, but the ranges are fairly stable:
Our stack keeps build time short: Laravel 12 with Filament v3.3 for the backend delivers a full admin panel in days, and Next.js 16 with React 19 for the frontend. You do not pay for that speed in quality, because you end up with a production-grade codebase, not a throwaway prototype.
That last point matters more than it sounds. Many cheap MVP engagements deliver a prototype that is technically a dead end: if it succeeds, you have to rebuild it entirely. We build the MVP on the same production stack the final product runs on. If your hypothesis works, you build further on what is already there instead of starting over. At growth, that saves you a second investment of tens of thousands of euros.
Most budgets blow up not because of wrong code, but because of wrong decisions made up front.
An MVP works best as part of a clear phasing. We roughly use three phases, and that structure keeps both the budget and expectations under control:
The benefit of this approach is that you never spend a lot of money on something unproven. Each phase is paid for by the confidence the previous phase earned.
The MVP is not an endpoint, it is the start of learning. After launch you look at behavior: where people drop off, which feature they do not use, what they come back for. Only then do you decide what phase two becomes. That is the whole point of the method: you only invest heavily in features with proven value.
Want to know whether your idea fits in an MVP? See our approach at MVP development. We tell you honestly when an idea is too big for a first version, because that saves your budget and time.
At NedDev from €15,000 for a simple MVP, rising to €60,000 for complex versions with AI or multi-tenant. The price depends on the number of core flows and integrations.
Typically 8 to 16 weeks. A simple MVP with one core flow launches within 8 to 10 weeks, more complex versions with AI or multiple integrations take longer.
Scope creep: wanting too many features in version one. An MVP tests one hypothesis with the minimal build. Anything that does not serve that goal belongs on the backlog for phase two.