The MVP that has to be rebuilt at scale
A prototype thrown together to raise money becomes the product, and the first real traffic spike exposes every shortcut.
Industries · Entrepreneurs & Startups
Founders come to OlDevs with a deck, a deadline and a runway. We turn that into a working product on a stack that will not need rebuilding at Series A, release it weekly, and put growth channels and investor-ready metrics around it, with every line of code, every design and every account in your name from day one.
You own the code and IP Weekly demos Reply within one business day
build-orchestrator
mainsrc/
queue.ts
pool.ts
retry.ts
types.ts
index.ts
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export interface BuildJob {
repo: string;
region: "ca-west-1";
}
export async function queue(
job: BuildJob,
): Promise<Run> {
return await pool.add(job);
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Watching src/ — optimised rebuild on save
OlDevs is a Vancouver full-stack studio that builds MVPs, web and mobile apps and AI features for founders and funded startups, on stacks chosen to scale rather than be rewritten.We ship working demos every week, you own all code, designs, accounts and IP, and our performance marketing team builds acquisition channels judged on CAC and payback rather than clicks. Every project is quoted, not priced from a menu, and we reply within one business day.
Key facts
Entrepreneurs & Startups
The problems we are asked to solve most often — and how.
A prototype thrown together to raise money becomes the product, and the first real traffic spike exposes every shortcut.
Architecture · Scalability · Technical debt · Web apps
Freelancers, no-code platforms and offshore shops leave founders with repos they cannot access and IP they cannot assign to investors.
IP ownership · Due diligence · Contracts · Source control
Without tests, CI and a build rhythm, every release grows riskier than the last and the team quietly stops shipping.
CI/CD · Release cadence · Testing · DevOps
Paid channels get switched on before the funnel is measured, so burn climbs while customer acquisition cost stays a mystery.
CAC · Paid media · Analytics · CRO · Unit economics
Activation, retention and revenue figures pulled from three different tools rarely agree, and the data room shows it.
Investor metrics · Analytics · Data pipelines · Reporting
The pitch promised a model, a retrieval pipeline or an agent that works on real customer data at a cost per query the business can carry.
AI development · LLMs · Agents · Cost control
Process
Strategy call
We hear the idea, the runway and the milestone you are raising or selling toward, then propose the smallest release that proves it. You get a written scope and a quote within one business day.
Design
Flows, wireframes and a clickable prototype you can put in front of early users and investors before code is written, built to WCAG 2.2 AA and in English and French where you need both.
Build
Sprints with a working demo every week, tests and CI from the first commit, and a staging environment your whole team can use throughout.
Launch
App store submission, cloud hardening, monitoring, analytics and a rollback plan. We hand over documentation and every credential, because they were yours all along.
Grow
SEO, paid search and social, lifecycle email and CRO run against CAC and payback targets, with a monthly report written for your board as well as your team.
How we work
The first release tests the one thing the business depends on, not the full roadmap. We cut scope with you until it can ship in weeks.
We favour proven frameworks, managed cloud and clean service boundaries, so the MVP becomes version one rather than a throwaway.
You see running software every week on a staging URL you can share with your co-founder, advisors or lead investor.
Repos, cloud accounts, app store listings, domains and analytics are created in your organisation from day one. We are contributors, never gatekeepers.
Events, funnels and cohort tracking go in before the first ad dollar, so every channel is judged on CAC and payback rather than clicks.
Activation, retention, MRR and churn are defined once and reported from a single source, ready for the board deck and the data room.
Recommended
6 weeks
Median time from kickoff to first MVP release
40+
Startup MVPs and version-ones shipped
3.1×
Median return on paid growth spend at day 90
FAQ
It depends on what the MVP has to prove, which is why the strategy call is spent cutting scope. Most first releases ship in weeks rather than months because we build only the flow that tests your riskiest assumption, and you see a working demo every week from the first sprint. If you have a fixed date, a demo day or a funding milestone, tell us on the call and we plan the release backwards from it.
You do, from the first commit. Repositories, cloud accounts, app store listings, domains, design files and analytics are all created inside your organisation, and our contract assigns all intellectual property to you. That matters most at due diligence, when an investor or acquirer asks for a clean chain of title on everything the company runs on.
Proven, widely supported technology that a future hire can pick up in a week. That usually means TypeScript with React or Next.js on the front end, Node or Python services behind it, PostgreSQL, and managed cloud infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code from the start. For mobile we build native Android and iOS or cross-platform depending on how much the product relies on device features. We choose per product and explain the trade-offs, and we avoid anything that would force a rewrite at your next stage.
Yes, and it is common. We can take the whole build, or slot into your repos, pull request process and sprint rhythm as extra capacity for a defined piece of work. Either way the code stays in your environment, so there is nothing to migrate when your team takes over more of it. We also run a documented handover at the end of every phase rather than only at the end of the engagement.
Every startup build is quoted, because the cost depends on the number of user flows, the platforms you need at launch, integrations and any AI or data work. Tell us what the product has to do and when, and we will reply within one business day with a written scope, a recommended first release and a fixed quote for it. There are no rate cards or packages to decode, and the quote separates build from ongoing growth so you can commit to each on its own.
Yes. Our performance marketing team runs SEO and content, paid search and shopping, paid social, email and lifecycle, and CRO for startups, and instruments the product first so every channel is judged on customer acquisition cost, payback period and retention rather than traffic. You get a monthly report showing what each channel cost and what it returned, and we pause or cut anything that is not paying for itself.
Yes. We build generative AI and LLM features, retrieval pipelines, agents and predictive models, and we treat cost per query as a product requirement from the first design. That means choosing the smallest model that meets the quality bar, caching and batching where it helps, and monitoring spend alongside usage in your own dashboards. Prompts, evaluation sets and fine-tuned models stay in your accounts, so the feature is part of your IP rather than a dependency on ours.
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