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MVP Scoper

Describe your idea in a sentence or two and get a structured first-pass MVP scope back.

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How these numbers are set: every range here is derived from the price bands Ubikon publishes for each service line — you can check them against the pricing page. An estimate is a grounded range, not a quote; the fixed line-item quote follows a scoping call.

How this works

Your idea is scoped into must/should/later user stories, a 6-8 screen MVP, explicit feature cuts, a cost band from the same engine behind the cost calculator, and the risks most likely to matter. This tool is not yet connected to a live Claude API call — see the notice above the form.

Straight answers

What people ask about MVP scope

What should an MVP actually include? +

One core workflow, done properly, plus whatever is required to use it — usually authentication and a way to pay if payment is part of the hypothesis. Everything else is a feature you are guessing about. The test for each feature is simple: if removing it still lets you learn whether the core hypothesis is true, it does not belong in version one.

How much does an MVP cost? +

Most MVPs run $8,000 to $40,000 across 4-10 weeks. The range is driven almost entirely by how many distinct user roles the product has and whether payments are involved — not by screen count. A single-role product with no billing sits at the lower end even with many screens; a two-sided marketplace with payouts sits at the top even if it looks simple.

Why does the scoper cut features instead of adding them? +

Because the failure mode of an MVP is being too large, not too small. A scope that takes six months to ship tests nothing for six months, and by then the assumption you were testing has usually changed. Every feature cut here is recorded rather than discarded — you get a version-two list, so nothing is lost, it is only sequenced.

Is the output a real scope I can build from? +

It is a structured first pass, good enough to brief an engineer or to sanity-check a quote you have already received. It is not a specification: it has not asked about your compliance constraints, your existing systems or your users' actual behaviour. Treat it as the shape of the project, then get a fixed line-item quote — which arrives within 48 hours of a 30-minute scoping call — for the number that holds.