For founders with a deadline
Your MVP.
Live in 8 weeks.
Most founders lose their first year to hiring, scope debates and rewrites. We compress that year into eight weeks: a senior product team, a scope we agree on in writing, and a launch date we actually hit.
- Launch date agreed before we write a line of code
- A working demo on a real URL every Friday
- You own the code, the repos and the IP from day one
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Weeks to live
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Friday demos
100%
Code ownership
Your Growth Blueprint
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Send us your idea and your deadline. Within one business day you get a scoped plan: what to build, what to cut, and what it will take.
The problem
Most MVPs die
before anyone uses them.
Not because the idea was bad. Because the first version took too long, cost too much, and tried to do too many things at once.
Hiring first is backwards
A first engineering hire takes four to six months and a founder salary before you have proof anyone wants the product. You pay for a team before you have earned the right to need one.
Agencies quote six months because they bill by the month
A long timeline is not a sign of ambition. It is a business model. Every extra month of build time is a month of revenue for them and a month of runway gone for you.
Founders overbuild
Version one gets forty features because saying no is hard. Users needed four of them. The other thirty six delayed your launch by months and taught you nothing.
The market does not wait
While your product sits in development, a competitor launches something worse and starts learning from real users. Six months later their worse product is better than your unlaunched one.
Our approach
Eight weeks.
Every one of them accounted for.
No discovery phases that last a quarter. No surprise invoices. One senior team, one fixed scope, one launch date.
Week 0
Cut the scope
We take your feature list and cut it until only the features that prove your idea remain. This is the most valuable week of the project. Most founders arrive with forty features. Most MVPs need four.
Weeks 1-2
Design and architecture
Screens your users will actually see, and an architecture that will not need a rewrite at ten thousand users. Both reviewed with you before a single feature is built.
Weeks 3-6
Build sprints
Four sprints. Four working demos, every Friday, on a real URL you can share with anyone. No screenshots, no slide decks, no trust us. You watch the product come alive weekly.
Week 7
Hardening
QA, edge cases, load, security and the unglamorous work that separates a demo from a product. This week is why your launch day will be boring, in the best way.
Week 8
Launch
Your product goes live with analytics wired in from day one. You start learning from real users immediately, which was the entire point.
What you walk away with
At week eight,
you have more than a product.
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A live product with real users
Not a prototype. A deployed product taking signups, with analytics telling you what people actually do inside it.
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Proof for investors
A launched product with usage data raises money. A pitch deck with mockups asks for permission. Investors can tell the difference in thirty seconds.
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A v2 roadmap based on evidence
Eight weeks of decisions documented, plus a prioritized roadmap built from what week-one users did, not what a workshop guessed.
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Infrastructure that scales past the MVP
CI/CD, monitoring and an architecture that survives your first ten thousand users without a rewrite. Boring on purpose.
Why NyxaLabs
We build like the runway
is our own.
We say no to features
Most agencies say yes to everything because every feature is billable. We cut scope like it is our own money, because the fastest way to lose a client is to launch late.
Senior team, no handoffs
The people who scope your product build your product. No sales engineer who disappears after the contract. No junior bench learning on your invoice.
100+ products shipped
We have launched MVPs that became funded companies and MVPs that proved an idea wrong in eight weeks instead of eighteen months. Both are wins. Both cost a fraction of finding out the slow way.
Built for the day you leave us
Clean code, documented decisions, your accounts, your keys. If your seed round means an in-house team, they inherit a codebase they will thank you for. Most clients stay anyway. 98% retention says so.
Founder insights
Most founders think launch day is the finish line.
It is not. Launch day is the first honest conversation your business has with the market.
That is when the real work begins.
NyxaLabs, from the field
The founder journey
Wherever you are today,
this is the whole road.
Most vendors solve one stage and disappear. We build for the stage you are in, then stay for the ones ahead. The team that ships your product is the same firm that runs your growth and your customer operations when you get there.
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Idea
Behind you
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MVP
You are here
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Product Market Fit
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First 100 Customers
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First 1,000 Customers
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Growth
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Customer Experience
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AI Automation
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Global Scale
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Long Term Partnership
Where this goes
Swipe to see the road →
NyxaLabs grows with you.
Think two steps ahead
You came for the build.
The business needs three answers.
An MVP is one of three problems every founder hits in year one. The other two arrive faster than most people plan for, and they are cheaper to solve before they are urgent.
A note on fit
We do not work
with everyone.
Every team we field is senior and every engagement gets leadership attention. That only works if we stay selective, so we are honest about fit before either side spends a week finding out.
We work best with ambitious founders building businesses for the next decade.
Quality over quantity.
We are probably not the right fit if
- ✕ You are looking for the cheapest quote
- ✕ You are comparing hourly rates
- ✕ You are looking for freelancers
- ✕ You want a one time project and a handshake
- ✕ You are unwilling to invest in growth
Why founders stay with us
They don't.
At least not all of them.
Some founders use us to validate an idea. Some use us to build their first product. Some stay for years.
What matters to us is not how long you stay. It is whether we helped you build something worth staying for.
The best partnerships usually start with one problem and end with years of solving them together.
What happens next
You reach out.
Then this happens.
No mystery, no maybe-we-will-call-you. This is the exact sequence every engagement follows, and you can hold us to it.
One partner throughout the journey
No handoffs between vendors. No re-explaining your business every quarter. The context we build in week one is still working for you in year three.
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Founder Strategy Session
A direct conversation about your business with someone senior. No sales script.
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Requirements Discovery
We map your product, market and constraints in plain language, in writing.
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Dedicated Team Allocation
Named senior people matched to your problem before anything is signed.
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Sprint Planning
The first two weeks planned to the day, with owners against every item.
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Execution Begins
Working software and live systems, not status decks.
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Weekly Reviews
What shipped, what moved, what happens next. Every week.
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Monthly Growth Reviews
Numbers against targets, and the decisions they drive.
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Quarterly Strategy Reviews
Zoom out with your leadership team. Reset priorities. Compound.
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Long Term Partnership
The same firm from your first sprint to your global scale.
FAQ
Questions founders
actually ask.
Straight answers, no discovery call required. Anything else, ask in the blueprint form and we answer within a business day.
How long does it take to build an MVP with NyxaLabs?
Eight weeks from kickoff to a live product. Week zero is spent cutting scope to the features that prove your idea. Weeks one and two cover design and architecture. Weeks three to six are build sprints with a working demo every Friday. Week seven is hardening and QA. Week eight is launch.
How much does it cost to build an MVP in 8 weeks?
Most MVPs we build fall between $15,000 and $50,000 depending on scope and complexity. That is roughly the cost of one month of a single senior engineer in San Francisco, except you get a full product team and a launched product at the end of it.
What if my idea is too big for eight weeks?
Then the scope is wrong, not the timeline. Every successful product you use today launched with a fraction of its current features. In week zero we work with you to find the smallest version of your product that real users will pay for. Everything else goes on the v2 roadmap.
Who owns the code and intellectual property?
You do, from the first commit. Everything lives in your repositories, your cloud accounts and your name. If we part ways at any point, you keep everything and any competent team can pick up where we left off.
What happens after the MVP launches?
You get real usage data, and that data decides what happens next. Some founders continue with us as their dedicated product team. Some use the MVP to raise and then hire in-house. Both outcomes are wins. We build the product so that either path stays open.
What technology stack does NyxaLabs use for MVPs?
Proven, hireable stacks: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python and PostgreSQL on AWS or Vercel. We choose boring technology on purpose. Your MVP should be easy to maintain, easy to scale and easy to hire for, not a science experiment.
Is NyxaLabs a one time build shop or a long term partner?
We are built for the long game. Most clients roll from the MVP straight into acquisition and revenue work, then into customer operations as volume grows. The team that built your product already knows your market, your codebase and your constraints, so nothing gets re-explained. That continuity is why our engagements are measured in years, not sprints.
Pick your next chapter
What would you like
to build next?
- Build my MVP You are here
- Acquire my first customers
- Build revenue systems
- Automate operations
- Build global support
- Global scale
Wherever you are today, we would love to help you build what comes next.
NyxaLabs
The long game
From your first customer
to your first million.
Every number on this chart is a different company with different problems. Most founders change vendors at every step and pay the re-learning tax each time. Our clients climb it with one partner who already knows the whole story.
We would love to be there for the whole journey.
NyxaLabs
First customer
100
1,000
10,000
100,000
Global scale
Partnership
One partner, the whole climb →
Founder Strategy Session
Book your founder strategy session.
Thirty minutes with someone senior enough to give you real answers. Not a discovery call, not a sales script. We take on a limited number of new partnerships each quarter, and this is how they all start.
- → You talk to people who have shipped 100+ products, not an account executive
- → Bring your hardest question. That is what the call is for
- → You leave with next steps, whether or not they involve us
- → If we are not the right fit, we say so on the call
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Eight weeks from now,
your product is live.
Or eight weeks from now, you are still interviewing engineers. The difference is one form.