MVP Development Agency UK

Helping you get your minimum viable product to market

We support you to get your minimum viable product to market: whether it be a subscription website, web application, or native app. We've helped entrepreneurs and established businesses from early specifications through to final delivery.

No matter which stage you're at, we can slot in and help you over the launch finish line and into the future. You may be at:

• The vision stage: You've had an idea and now want to start specifying it, costing and early production.
• Specification: You have already defined important aspects including: screen structure and functionality.
• Specification plus tech: You know which technologies you'd like to use for building your MVP.
• Specification, tech, plus UI: You may have already extended your development to screen design.
• In Build: And finally, you may have already started your journey with another development agency, but would now like to switch.

One of our first tasks is to establish where you're at, and find the slot where we fit in.

What makes a good MVP?

Quite simply, you need to demonstrate early value to your targeted segment. Your features need to address needs and solve customer pain points. And this needs to be front and centre in your product.

Think a product that's equal to the elevator pitch. When using your new product for the first time; prospects need to see the value. And think, "yes" this can make a difference to me; "I'm on-board!".

We help you focus on this primary goal as much as possible, but also on:

• Core User Journey: Making sure the path to meeting needs and solving pain is clear of obstacles.
• Validation: Helping you confirm your MVP, the product of your imagination, means business. Essential, for the next stage of development and/or fundraising.
• Iteration: Receiving early feedback and interpreting that into UI and functionality changes.
• Extensibility: Ensuring that the product is extendable so that it can be further developed and refined.
• Avoiding Feature Bloat: Helping you stay on the path to solving the essential needs and pains. And avoiding feature bloat which may deflect prospects away from your core feature(s).

How can we help?

From defining a specification through to final delivery we can support at each step.

Discovery

Depending on how far you have progressed with your specification, we can support you with defining a specification. This could better be described as a road map or blueprint for a developer to follow. Also essential for costing. Time spent here is time-saved later on during development.

This includes:

• Structure of Screens: Essentially, a map of your application screen-by-screen.
• Screen-by-screen Data and Functionality: Concise description of data per screen. And what functionality the user requires. This may be per permission or role.
• Flows and Journeys: Optimising how the user travels through the app for different features.
• Design and Branding: Support with defining the look and feel of your product.
• Technology and Tooling: What frontend tech (i.e. website, web app or native app) and backend tech (i.e. server) suit the needs of your application. And what frameworks (i.e. tools that make software development quicker) would be best.
• Security: How your product, users and data will be kept secure. Including, what security level is needed: for example, multi-factor authentication.
• Maintenance and On-Going Support: We'll also help you define what support you'll need into the future.
• Measurement of Success: It's important to define how success is measured for your MVP. And how to capture this data during any evaluations.

Throughout the discovery phase, we'll take into account any legal obligations you might have such as GDPR.

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UI Design

We can work with existing wireframes and designs, or your designer. Alternatively, we can develop wireframes and designs. You may have mood boards that define the design essentials which we can work from too.

We're not a branding agency, but can help you with colour palette choices and font selections. We have experience with making quality design-driven websites and apps.

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Development

And of course, we can build your MVP. We focus on:

• Best-practice coding techniques
• Keeping code light-weight
• Use of third-party code, only where it makes sense to do so
• AI supported code development but not AI-driven development. In other words, we use AI to speed-up development while retaining a very tight-hold on the codebase. We need to ensure that we fully understand all aspects for debugging.
• Extensibility, development with extension in mind
• Thorough testing

Read more about our web development service

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Pendigital - Small But Mighty

We're a micro business, a husband and wife team who specialise in development. Whilst this may exclude us from very large projects, you do get the advantages of:

• We don't outsource our code to any external developers. This is a huge advantage as your vision is provided direct to the coders building your product. Nothing gets lost in translation via account or project managers.
• We're often better value for money than large agencies where you need to fund the account management team and big offices.
• Tim has a background in marketing with a business degree, helpful when developing new products. Read about Tim and Emma

Typical MVPs we can help with:

• Subscription platforms
• Portals
• Client dashboards
• Booking systems
• Education platforms
• Internal business tools
• Membership systems
• Mobile apps
• SaaS products
• And more...

Next Steps

We look forward to discussing your vision, current stage in your journey. Please contact us to arrange an online meeting.