Q3Services · Product engineering
MVP Development
A minimum viable product exists to teach you something. We help founders and product teams scope, design and build a first release that tests the riskiest assumptions with real users, without over-building.
Typical building blocks
Web and mobile frameworks · Managed back-end services · Payments and authentication · Product analytics
Built around your business.
We push back on features that don't help the test. The result is a real, usable product you can put in front of customers, built so it can grow instead of being thrown away.
What we deliver.
- 01
Assumption mapping
Listing what must be true for the product to work and choosing what to test first.
- 02
Scope and design
A tight feature set and a clean interface designed around the core journey.
- 03
Build and launch
A production-quality first release with analytics to see how people use it.
- 04
Learning plan
How to gather feedback and decide what to build next.
Where it's used.
A startup validating an idea
Getting to real users before spending on a full build.
A corporate team testing a new product
Trying a concept with a small group before wider investment.
Replacing a prototype
Turning a demo into something dependable enough to charge for.
Typical building blocks: Web and mobile frameworks · Managed back-end services · Payments and authentication · Product analytics
How we work.
01
Scope
Requirements, constraints and a plan written down before any build begins.
02
Design
Interface and technical design reviewed with you while changes are cheap.
03
Build
Short iterations with working software at each step, tested as we go.
04
Launch and support
Deployment, handover and the support arrangement that suits your team.
Best fit.
- Founders with a defined problem and audience
- Product teams needing evidence before scaling
- Businesses testing a digital extension of their service
Why Q3 Labs.
- Senior people on the work
- You work with the specialists doing the project, not a hand-off to a junior team.
- Marketing and engineering together
- Design, development, data and growth sit in one team, so a solution is built with adoption in mind.
- Plain reporting, no lock-in
- Clear progress reporting and no long-term contracts. You keep ownership of your assets and accounts.
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Frequently asked questions
Talk to us about MVP Development.
Tell us what you're trying to achieve. We'll tell you how we'd approach it, and whether Q3 Labs is the right fit.