MVP Builder

 

Go to market quickly with a high-quality Minimum Viable Product

What Is The MVP Builder?

We use a structured process to build your MVP quickly and on budget. Our product experts will streamline your MVP to the most important features. Then, our top talent UX/UI and development teams will design and build your MVP from the ground up. This allows you to rapidly launch, prove the product’s main assumptions so your business can grow as soon as possible.

How It Works

Step One

Product Scope

The Product Scope is an intensive, 7-day, structured process. It all starts with an immersive focus session where you’ll sit down with product experts and ex startup founders to dive into the product vision from a business standpoint. From this point, we will create the right list of user stories for the design of your Minimum Viable Product.

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Step Two

Design Brief

The design brief starts with a product scope – either created by us or provided by you – with all the user stories, UX personas or list of features and stakeholder analysis.

Step Three

Key Screens

We start by creating the most important screens for your product. This allows you to see exactly how your product will look and then approve the design.

Step Four

All Screens

Once you are happy and approve the Key Screens we extend the design to the remaining screens and deliver the full product UX/UI.

Step Five

Development

After your app is fully designed and approved we start the implementation phase. During this phase we progressively deliver the modules of the app, so you can test them during the process.

Step Six

Test & Go

When the app is fully developed we enter a testing phase during which we’re in constant contact to fix major bugs and make sure your MVP is ready to go to market.

Key Benefits

Reduced Risk

We don’t want to help you build a full-featured product only to discover the market doesn’t want it. We want you to succeed. That’s why we focus on the vital features needed to test your product’s main assumptions – leaving unnecessary features behind, or saving them for later iterations.

Reduced Cost

By cutting down the feature list to the essential core that is needed to prove your product’s assumptions, you’re not only reducing the risk but also reducing the cost. You will spend less on product development and at the initial iteration phase – fewer features equals less maintenance.

Time to Market

The quicker you can test your assumptions the quicker you can get to market. By saving time you will save a considerable amount of energy by using this streamlined methodology.

Focus on Growing the Business

Building an MVP is the quickest way to grow your business – especially if you use expert product builders to help you. It allows you to focus on the business vision. Bringing a team of experts on board will kick-start your business and get the ball rolling – and, in the beginning, is much quicker and safer than hiring an in-house team.

Outputs From the MVP Builder

Clickable Prototype

The clickable prototype is a non-functional prototype meant to simulate users’ interaction. The experience of using the clickable prototype is very much like the final product itself, this is the adequate phase to test the information architecture and UX..

Stakeholders Analysis

Our product decisions are based on a structured rationale. We need to know all the stakeholders in-depth in order to help to guide decisions about the product and also to help to prioritize the key User Stories for the MVP.

User Stories

We get into the mind of your product’s ideal user and create the story of the journey they take through the product. We know from experience that creating user stories is better than lists of features because it keeps the user at the center of the process.

Key BPMN

Optional: BPMN (Business Process Model & Notation) is a flow chart method that models the steps of a planned business process from end to end. This is usually needed at this stage when we have complex workflows. We design the key flows to be sure that we’re not missing any important detail in the main flows, and that we’re in sync with the client’s vision.

Tech Scope

Optional: When the project is challenging from a tech standpoint we elaborate research and a memorandum tackling our suggested approaches for tech stack selection, database technology and orchestration.

Tech Spike

Optional: When the project is so challenging on the tech side that the whole project could fail because of a technology bottleneck, we propose to do a Tech Spike. A viability check where we only focus on building a tiny proof of concept that proves the technology approach is viable. This is a risk mitigation procedure that allows the Project to move to the MVP building phase on solid ground.

Business Model

Optional: When the business model is either undefined or unclear we also propose to study the most viable Business Model for the product. This study starts with looking at direct competitors, then parallel or similar cases, then we run simulations to then, together with the client, evaluate the best approach.

Brand Brief

Optional: In some cases, there is not a Brand Rationale or a strong branding in place when we start, so in this case, we go through the brand brief to try to understand the brand values that should be reflected in the UI and aesthetics of the product.

Information Architecture

Our IA process derives from a mix of IA principles and cognitive psychology. The output is a structured blueprint with all the product’s information that allows users to understand where they are and how to get from A to B without using a sitemap.

UX Wireframes

During the wireframing phase, we focus on a low-fidelity design, the minimum graphic representation of the product with just the most essential elements and the content. This way, it is easy to iterate until the optimal structure is reached without losing time with details.

UI Mockups

Our mockup phase starts right after the UX and the brand are defined. The output is a high-fidelity design already reflecting the aesthetics approach, from the product’s color schemes, visual style and typography.

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We are very happy to work with Altar.io. The collaboration goes far beyond a standard IT service: with Altar.io we have a sparring partner that challenges us in our product decisions and is truly passionate about the results developed. The level of professionalism and dedication is exceptional in this industry and we are eager to strengthen our collaboration in the future.

Philip Schoch - Apiax, Co-Founder
Altar product and software development client Apiax

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Why Us?

Top Talent

We work with the best and brightest in tech talent to ensure you get high-quality tech architecture. For each developer we onboard we go through at least 100 candidates. Once onboarded our employees stay long-term, meaning they have a deep knowledge of the company and the processes we use.

Proven Track Record

We have helped founders and business leaders build successful products across various industries. Here are some of our latest case studies.

Business Mindset

As ex-startup founders with a corporate background, we have experienced many of the struggles on both sides. We know there is more to a successful product than technology, so we will always look at your product from a business standpoint.

User-Centric Approach

We value your end-user above specifications. We take the time to understand your client’s needs and desires. The result is a product they will actually use.

Lean Product Development

We have learned lean product development through building startups from the ground up with very few resources. When you build a product with us it will always be streamlined to the most important features for your user.

Cross-Industry Experience

Having worked with numerous founders and business leaders from various industries, we have learned to adapt to new challenges quickly. Our experience and insights will help you build a scalable, high-quality product that effectively solves your users’ problems.

Dedicated In-House Team

We have an experienced team of highly trained product owners, project managers, designers and developers ready to answer all your questions - no accounts involved.

Compliance By Default

WE FOLLOW THE HIGHEST, ESTABLISHED INDUSTRY STANDARDS

Code Audit
End-to-end encryption
Continuous integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
ISO/IEC 27001:2013
OWASP Top 10

Vital web-vulnerabilities that must be checked

Security Audit

Cybersecurity Assessment, Smart contracts Audit, Penetration testing

Tools we Use

Slack

Slack is our choice to manage project communications. We create a dedicated private channel with both team members and you (the client) to discuss everything related to your project. This ensures your project's information is secure and communication is efficient and transparent at all times.

Miro

Miro is a collaborative diagram design tool. Miro is the perfect tool to translate ideas into concepts and explain them to the whole team quickly and reliably. Thanks to collaborative features, everyone enters the discussion.

Google Drive

Google Drive is the go-to suite for those looking to work online and store files securely in the cloud. Text treatment and spreadsheets are mandatory so we use Google Drive to take advantage of the full suite to share documentation and collaborate with multiple team members on the same document in real-time.

Trello

Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards. It tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process. We use Trello to stay organized and keep progress clear but also to gather everything you will need to know about the project in a single place.

Jira

Jira was originally designed as a bug and issue tracker. Today it has evolved into a work management tool for all kinds of use cases. Jira is our central hub for work delivery. We use it to organize and manage our design and implementation tasks to keep progressing efficiently toward each release.

Other Services We Provide

Product Scope

A Structured 7-day Process to align your product vision with your business goals.

Dedicated Teams

Build your product with a dedicated team of developers.

UX/UI

Design an engaging product that is easy-to-use, attractive and functional.

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