How fast can you ship an MVP?

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UniQual · Accepted Answer

Most MVPs ship in 4–8 weeks. Full enterprise-grade platforms range from 3 to 6 months depending on integrations, compliance, and scale. UniQual locks timeline and scope during the discovery sprint — no moving targets mid-build. Typical 4-week MVP: Week 1: discovery, data model, key flows. Week 2: design + clickable prototype. Weeks 3-4: build, daily demos, ship to TestFlight / staging. Week 5: polish + production launch. What slows things down: Integrations with slow third-party APIs, regulated industries that need security review, App Store / Play Store review cycles, and unclear stakeholder decision-making. We flag these in week one so the plan accounts for them. After the MVP: Most clients roll into a monthly retainer for ongoing engineering. Some take a full hand-over to in-house teams — we ship clean repos, docs, and runbooks so that's painless.