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MVP development in Delhi NCR

Many NCR founders have spent years in operating roles at the consumer internet companies around them. They know the market, the unit economics and the customer very well, and they know exactly how a badly built first version slows a company down later. What they often lack at the start is a technical co-founder, and the choice between waiting for one and building now.

We build the smallest version that tests the idea properly, in Next.js and Postgres, on infrastructure in your name. The scoping conversation cuts the plan down to the one workflow a user will pay for, and the code is written so your first engineering hire extends it rather than replacing it. You get something real to put in front of customers and investors, and a clear list of what was deliberately left out.

WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT DELHI NCR

Delhi NCR is not one market but three, joined by expressways and a metro. Gurugram is where much of India's consumer internet grew up: food and grocery delivery, travel, logistics, home services and fintech, alongside the Indian offices of many multinationals. Noida has a different mix, with large IT services firms, edtech, media and healthcare technology companies selling to hospitals in the US. Delhi itself holds the government, and with it every company whose customer is a ministry, a state department or a public sector undertaking.

The consumer companies share an operational problem. Their software coordinates people in the physical world, riders, couriers, technicians and sellers, on cheap phones and busy roads, and the backend has to cope with status updates that arrive late, twice or out of order. Many of them are now past the stage of growth at any cost and into the stage of unit economics, which turns engineering questions into money questions: what does each order cost to serve, and which part of the cloud bill is paying for nothing.

Companies that sell to government need software shaped like the organisation it serves. Access follows the organisation chart: a district sees its own records, a state sees its districts, a ministry sees all of them, and every approval has a proposer and an approver. Noida's healthcare technology companies need something similar for hospital customers abroad, with each customer's data kept firmly apart. Across all three cities the hiring market is crowded. The consumer companies, the multinationals and the IT services firms compete for the same senior engineers, so a defined piece of work often waits months for someone to own it.

We are in Bengaluru and share your time zone, so the working day is the same on both sides, and a problem raised in the morning gets a response that morning. You talk directly to the engineer who writes the code. Most of the work happens in your repository and a shared chat channel, and the decisions, runbooks and architecture notes are written down as we go for everyone who was not on the call.

DELHI NCR PRICING, PLAINLY
Mid-level software engineer, Gurugram~₹16 lakh a year
Our rate$35/hr
Minimum engagement$5,000
Overlap with Delhi NCRSame time zone

We are the right fit when an NCR team needs senior capacity quickly: a defined build, a backend that has to stop losing orders, or the months while your permanent hire works out their notice. Start with a fixed-price two-week piece and judge us on what ships. Agencies and IT services firms can bring us in white-label under their name.

WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE

Four ways this arrives.

The spec is a wish list

Every feature is marked essential. We work with you to find the one journey a user must complete for the idea to be proven or disproven, build that properly, and write the rest down as a list for after launch.

A prototype is already live

It was built with a no-code tool or over a weekend, and real users are now finding its limits. We keep what works, move the data somewhere you own, and rebuild the parts that break without taking the product offline.

You need something to show investors

A demo that works in the meeting and then has to become the product. We build it on a real database with real sign-in from the start, so the version you demo is the version you keep, not a mock-up you throw away.

You are a non-technical founder

You need someone to make the technical decisions and explain them in plain language. We write down every choice that is expensive to reverse, why we made it and what changing it would cost, so whoever you hire next can pick it up.

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You talk to the engineer writing the code
Four hours of daily overlap with your working day
We sign an NDA before any specifics
Most engagements start with a fixed-price two-week piece of work
FAQ

Asked by Delhi NCR teams.

How do you work with teams in Delhi NCR?+

We are in Bengaluru and share your time zone, so calls, reviews and releases happen inside your normal working day, whether you are in Gurugram, Noida or Delhi. We work in your tools, Slack, GitHub and Linear or whatever your team already uses. You talk directly to the engineer writing the code, from the first 30-minute call onwards, and the decisions, runbooks and architecture notes are written down in your repository as we go.

Do you build for delivery and logistics companies?+

Yes. We build the systems that coordinate riders, couriers and technicians: order and shipment state that stays correct when events arrive late, twice or out of order, partner apps that keep working offline and upload proof of delivery when the network returns, and reconciliation that catches what still slips through. We also build the data pipelines that finally give everyone one answer to what an order costs to serve.

How does your rate compare to hiring in Delhi NCR?+

PayScale puts a mid-career software engineer in Gurugram at about ₹16 lakh a year. Our published rate is $35 an hour, with a $5,000 minimum. That buys a senior engineer who writes the code, works in your Slack, GitHub and Linear, and starts within days, with no recruiting round, notice period or employment overhead. Begin with a fixed-price two-week piece at $2,800 and judge us on what ships.

Can you take over a platform another team built?+

Yes, and it is a common way in. We start by reading the code and writing down what it actually does: the services, the background jobs, the parts only one person understood. The fixed-price two-week piece is usually the failure that costs you most, fixed and documented. At the end you have working code, a map of the system and a written plan for what comes next, all in your repository.

What does the fixed-price two-week starter cover?+

A defined slice of the product, agreed in writing before we start. For an MVP it is usually the core flow, working end to end against a real database. It costs $2,800. You get something running at the end and you keep the code either way, so you can judge us on output before committing to the rest of the build.

How long does an MVP take?+

It depends on what the smallest honest version is, which is why we scope before we quote. The two-week starter usually answers the question: by the end of it one flow works, and you have a written estimate for the rest with its assumptions listed. We would rather cut scope with you than promise a date we would miss.

Why Next.js and PostgreSQL?+

Because they are boring in the right way. Both are widely known, so you can hire for them later. Postgres will carry you a long way past your first paying customers, and Next.js gives you a web app and an API in one codebase. If the product is mobile-first, we build the app in React Native on the same backend.

Will we have to rewrite it later?+

Not if we do our job. The shortcuts we take are in scope, not in structure: fewer features, plainer screens, manual steps behind the scenes. The data model, sign-in, permissions and deploys are built properly from the first week, because those are the parts that force a rewrite when they are wrong.

Who owns the code and the accounts?+

You do, from the first commit. Repositories, hosting, domains and payment accounts are created in your name, not ours. If we set something up ourselves to save time, we transfer it to you before the first invoice. An MVP you cannot take to another team is a liability, not an asset.

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