MVP development in Hyderabad
Inside Hyderabad's capability centres, new ideas often need to be proved before they are funded. A GCC leader sees a problem the parent company has not, but the headcount to build a solution will only be approved once headquarters has seen it working. Writing a proposal is slow and abstract. A working proof of concept, used by real people for a few weeks, makes the case far more convincingly.
We build that proof of concept as a real, small product rather than a demo. One workflow, built in Next.js and Postgres inside your environment, with real data where it makes the case stronger and usage you can report to headquarters. If it is approved, your new team inherits code they can extend. If it is not, you have learned that cheaply, which is also a result.
Hyderabad's technology economy grew around HITEC City, set up in 1998, and spread west through Gachibowli and the Financial District. It is where Microsoft runs one of its largest research and development centres outside Redmond and where Amazon opened what it described as its largest campus building, in 2019. JLL counts more than 355 global capability centres in the city, the in-house engineering and operations offices of foreign companies, employing over 200,000 people, which makes it the second-largest GCC hub in India. Those centres set the local price of an experienced engineer, and every other employer in the city, startups included, hires against them.
The second pillar is life sciences. Genome Valley, the pharmaceutical manufacturers on the city's edge and a fast-growing set of pharma GCCs make Hyderabad unusual: according to the same JLL research, nine of the world's top 18 pharma, biotech and medical device companies run capability centres here. Software in this world is about records people can trust. Quality teams need to see who changed a record, when and why. Approvals need a named person behind them. A batch, a deviation or a sample has to be traceable from start to finish. Much of that work still lives in shared drives and spreadsheets that have outgrown the job.
So the buyers here are usually one of three. GCC leaders with a mandate from headquarters and a hiring pipeline that moves slower than the roadmap. Quality, clinical and commercial teams in pharma who need a tool built properly and documented as it is built. And the city's own startups and established firms, who compete with those GCCs for every engineer and need senior people on a piece of work long before a hire can join.
We are in Bengaluru and share your time zone, so the working day is the same on both sides. Most of the work happens in your repository, your ticketing system and a shared chat channel, which is how most GCCs prefer to run anyway. You talk directly to the engineer who writes the code, and the runbooks and architecture notes are written as we go, so your permanent team inherits them.
We are the right fit for the proof of concept that wins your GCC its headcount, a funded build that needs senior engineers before hiring can staff it, or specialist work alongside your team. 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.
Four ways this arrives.
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.
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.
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 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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How do you work with teams in Hyderabad?+
We are in Bengaluru and share your time zone, so calls, reviews and releases fit inside your normal working day. We work in your tools: Slack, GitHub and Linear, or whichever chat, repositories and ticketing your parent company has standardised on, with access through your own accounts. You talk directly to the engineer writing the code, and the decisions, runbooks and architecture notes are written down in your repository as we go.
Do you build for pharma and life sciences teams?+
Yes. We build the tools quality, clinical and commercial teams use every day: platforms where every change to a record shows who made it, when and why; approvals tied to a named person; field apps for medical representatives that work without signal; batch- and expiry-aware ordering for distributors; and document search that cites the exact source passage. The design documentation is written as we build, so your teams can see exactly what the system does.
How does your rate compare to hiring in Hyderabad?+
PayScale puts a mid-career software engineer in Hyderabad at about ₹14 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 build the proof of concept our GCC needs to win headcount?+
Yes. We build one workflow as a small, real product inside your environment, usually in Next.js and Postgres, with usage you can report to headquarters. It starts with a fixed-price two-week piece, so the first working version arrives quickly and costs a known amount. The NDA comes before specifics, and the code sits in your repositories from the first commit, so when the headcount is approved your new team extends it.
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.