For non-technical founders shipping their first product
An MVP platform —not an MVP shop.
Enkindl pairs AI with senior engineers to ship your MVP from $2,000 — not $50,000. Production-ready Next.js you own, delivered in weeks, plus hosting, monitoring, and scaling that grow with you.
Fixed price. You own the code. We host, monitor, and scale it.
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The cost reality
What an MVP actually costs you.
| Agency | Freelancer | No-code | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | $40K–$120K | $5K–$25K | $0–$500/mo |
| Time to launch | 4–9 months | 2–4 months (if they finish) | Days |
| Monthly running cost | You hire DevOps | You hire DevOps | $300–$3,000/mo and rising |
| Code ownership | Eventually | Sometimes | Never |
| Hosting & monitoring | Not included | Not included | Locked to platform |
| What happens at scale | Renegotiate | Disappears | Hits a wall |
- Agency
- $40K–$120K
- Freelancer
- $5K–$25K
- No-code
- $0–$500/mo
- Agency
- 4–9 months
- Freelancer
- 2–4 months (if they finish)
- No-code
- Days
- Agency
- You hire DevOps
- Freelancer
- You hire DevOps
- No-code
- $300–$3,000/mo and rising
- Agency
- Eventually
- Freelancer
- Sometimes
- No-code
- Never
- Agency
- Not included
- Freelancer
- Not included
- No-code
- Locked to platform
- Agency
- Renegotiate
- Freelancer
- Disappears
- No-code
- Hits a wall
Enkindl: builds from $2,000. 95%+ less than an agency. Zero re-platform cost when you scale. Hosting, monitoring, and scaling included.
Three options. Three traps.
$50K minimum, six months, a project manager who's never met a founder before. By the time it ships, you've pivoted twice — and now they want $20K to "modify the scope."
Cheap to start. Then they go quiet. The code has no tests, no docs, and now you're paying someone else $40K to rewrite it from scratch.
Fast to prototype. Then you hit the wall: token burn, slow performance, locked-in data, hosting fees that climb with every user, and one feature your investors care about that the platform won't let you build.
Enkindl is what every option above is missing.
A platform that ships a product —
and runs it for you.
Most options give you code (or a prototype) and then disappear. We're a platform: we build it, host it, monitor it, and scale it with you. One team. One bill. One source of truth.
AI + senior engineers, not juniors with AI.
Real engineering decisions, real ownership, AI doing the boilerplate. We move 3–5× faster than an agency without cutting corners.
Production Next.js — yours from day one.
Full GitHub repo in your name. Real codebase, real Git history, real tests. Eject anytime. Zero lock-in.
Hosting, monitoring, and scaling — built in.
Vercel, Postgres, observability, alerting, backups, uptime, autoscaling. You don't hire DevOps. You don't pay a separate hosting bill that doubles every quarter.
One predictable cost.
Build phase: fixed price. Post-launch: one flat monthly that covers hosting, monitoring, and engineering hours. Scaling included until you hit real volume.
Stuck on FlutterFlow, Thunkable, Bubble, or Adalo?
We don't make you start over. We import your data model, recreate your workflows in clean Next.js, and host the new version under your domain. Most no-code-to-Next.js migrations ship in 3 weeks — and your monthly hosting bill usually goes down, not up, after you leave the platform.
What you actually get
What ships — and what keeps running.
- Full Next.js codebase, in your GitHub
- Production deploy on your domain
- Auth (email + Google by default, more on request)
- Database with admin panel
- Stripe / Lemon Squeezy / payment integration
- Email/SMS via Resend / Twilio
- Analytics wired in
- Loom walkthroughs of every part of the codebase
- Hosting (Vercel + Postgres) — included
- Uptime monitoring + alerting — included
- Daily database backups — included
- Security patches — included
- Autoscaling on traffic spikes — included
- A real engineer on call when something breaks
- Monthly engineering hours for new features — included up to your tier
- Performance monitoring + optimization
Most agencies hand you keys and disappear. We stay with the product.
How a build runs
From idea to launched, hosted, monitored — in weeks.
Scope · week 0
Idea → buildable spec.
30-minute call. We turn your idea into a buildable spec and a fixed price. If we can't ship it cleanly, we say so.
Build · weeks 1–4
You see real progress every day.
Daily progress on a private board. Working preview URL within 48 hours of kickoff. AI ships the boilerplate; engineers make every decision.
Launch · week 4
Deployed, monitored, backed up.
Deploy to your domain. Hosting, monitoring, and backups go live. You get the GitHub repo and full documentation.
Run · ongoing
We keep running it.
You don't hire DevOps. You don't manage hosting contracts. We host, monitor, scale, and ship new features at a flat monthly — until you outgrow us, at which point we hand off cleanly.
Pricing
From $2,000. Not $50,000.
Around 20 hours of senior human engineering — and AI doing the boilerplate around it. That combination ships a real product, not a prototype.
MVP Build
from $2,000
one-time, fixed price
Around 20 hours of senior engineering, with AI handling the boilerplate. Larger scopes are quoted after the scope call. Most builds ship in 2–4 weeks.
Post-launch · Run Plan
from $499/mo
flat monthly, all-in
Covers hosting, monitoring, backups, alerting, and a baked-in pool of engineering hours for fixes and new features. No surprise hosting bills, no DevOps hire, no scope-creep invoices.
The math
- Agency MVP~$50K–$120K build + $0–$3K/mo (you handle hosting, you hire DevOps, change orders extra)
- Freelancer~$5K–$25K build + you handle everything else (if they finish at all)
- No-code~$0 build + $300–$3,000/mo (rising) + you'll pay to migrate when you scale
- EnkindlFrom $2,000 build + from $499/mo all-in (hosting, monitoring, and ongoing engineering hours included)
Built for
Built for the founder who needs a real product, not a longer runway burn.
First-time founder
You've validated the idea. You don't need another idea-stage advisor — you need a working product, a Stripe link, and a system that scales without bankrupting you. We get you there.
Founder leaving no-code
You've outgrown FlutterFlow / Thunkable / Bubble / Adalo. The token burn is killing you and you can't add the one feature your next round depends on. We import what you have, ship the real version, and your monthly bill drops.
FAQ
What founders actually ask.
There isn't one. AI ships the boilerplate — the parts that used to eat 80% of an agency's hours. Senior engineers spend their ~20 hours on the decisions that actually matter: data model, auth, payments, the product calls. We don't carry a sales team, account managers, or a fancy office, so the price you see is engineering, not overhead. Bigger scopes cost more — we quote that on the scope call.
From day one. GitHub repo in your name. No license restrictions, no "powered by Enkindl" footer, no permission needed to take it elsewhere.
Pull the GitHub repo, point your domain wherever you want, cancel us. We'll do a clean handoff. Zero penalties.
They give you a prototype inside their walled garden, charge per AI generation, and lock you into their hosting. We give you a real Next.js app in your GitHub, charge once for the build, and host it transparently — usually for less per month than what you're paying them now.
Freelancers ship code. We ship products — with tests, monitoring, hosting, and a senior engineer accountable for keeping it running. Plus, when the freelancer goes quiet, you're stuck. We don't go quiet.
Autoscaling is built in from day one. Your hosting cost rises predictably with your usage tier — not in surprise invoices. When you hit real volume (say, $10K MRR or 10K MAU), we'll either expand your Run Plan or hand off to your in-house team. Your call.
Yes. About 40% of what we do. Bring the project — we'll import the data model and ship the real version.
Stop preparing
Start shipping.
30-minute scope call. Fixed-price quote in 24 hours. We host, monitor, and scale it — you focus on customers.
Free · 30 minutes · No sales pitch
Based in Mountain Time · US & Canada only