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Your SaaS Burn Rate Just Hit $47K/Month. Your MVP Isn't Even Launched.

If you're a technical founder still configuring AWS while competitors ship features, you're building the wrong stack.

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90+
Lighthouse score
Mobile, production build
4-10 weeks
Typical timeline
MVP to V1 launch
$25K-$200K
Project range
MVP to multi-tenant enterprise
5,000+
Sites shipped
Since 2012
What SaaS Development on Next.js + Supabase Actually Delivers -- And What It Won't

Your sign-up form fires. Supabase Auth provisions the user, sends a magic link, and writes a row to your Postgres database -- all in 180 milliseconds. Next.js middleware checks the session token, reads their org permissions from row-level security policies, and renders their dashboard with server components pulling live data from Postgres. Stripe webhooks listen for payment events and update subscription status in real time. That's your SaaS spine: authentication, team management, billing, and real-time UI updates -- deployed to Vercel's edge network so your app loads under 200ms from Sydney to Stockholm. No server provisioning, no Redis cluster, no Kubernetes YAML. You skip the DevOps team entirely. Supabase gives you managed Postgres with built-in auth (OAuth, SSO, magic links) and real-time listeners. Next.js App Router handles access control in middleware and serves static marketing pages via ISR while app routes stay dynamic. Stripe Connect or Billing handles recurring revenue -- we've wired both 300+ times. The cost: $50–$200/month in infrastructure until you hit 50K users. The risk if you don't: your offshore team ships a monolithic Rails app that costs $4K/month to host and takes 6 seconds to load on mobile, bleeding trial users before they ever see your dashboard.

Your Current Site May Be a Liability

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your offshore team delivered a slow, monolithic codebase that's expensive to host and painful to iterate on.
Risk: Every sprint costs more than the last, and your churn rate climbs because the product feels sluggish.
You're spending $2K-$5K/month on infrastructure for a product that hasn't hit product-market fit yet.
Risk: You burn runway on servers instead of features, and you run out of cash before you find paying customers.
Auth, billing, and team management are half-built and full of edge cases your team keeps punting on.
Risk: Failed payments go unnoticed, trial expirations don't trigger, and you lose revenue you already earned.
Your current app takes 4-6 seconds to load on mobile, and your bounce rate proves it.
Risk: Google penalizes slow apps in search, and users abandon onboarding before they ever see your value prop.
You can't ship a multi-tenant architecture without months of custom work on your existing stack.
Risk: Enterprise deals stall because you can't isolate tenant data, and compliance audits become a nightmare.
Every new feature requires coordinating frontend, backend, and DevOps -- and nothing ships on time.
Risk: Your competitors release weekly while you're stuck in two-week deploy cycles with manual QA gates.

What Your Website Could Look Like

Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.

Modern SaaS product dashboard on laptop and mobile
Multi-tenant SaaS platform with billing, user management, and analytics

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Build auth flows with magic links, OAuth, and SSO that provision users in under 200ms

Your users sign up, verify, and land in a working dashboard -- no half-built auth flows or trial-expiration bugs

Wire Stripe webhooks to sync subscription status, trial expirations, and failed payments automatically

Your Stripe account stays in sync with your database, so failed payments trigger dunning emails and revenue never leaks

Architect multi-tenant data models with RLS policies or schema-per-tenant isolation for compliance

Your enterprise deals close faster because tenant data lives in isolated schemas that pass compliance audits

Deploy real-time dashboards that push live updates without polling or managing WebSocket servers

Your team dashboard updates live when users join, leave, or change roles -- zero manual refresh clicks

Ship your app to Vercel's edge network for sub-200ms load times in 30+ global regions

Your marketing site scores 95+ on Lighthouse while your app routes stay dynamic and fast under load

Create admin panels with user management, MRR tracking, and audit logs as protected Next.js routes

Your team ships features weekly instead of waiting on DevOps to provision servers or debug deployment pipelines

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Product & Data Modeling

Week 1

We map your user flows, define your Postgres schema, plan Stripe product/price objects, and scope the MVP feature set in a shared Notion workspace.

02

Auth, Billing & Infra Setup

Week 2-3

We stand up the Supabase project, configure auth providers, wire Stripe billing with webhook handlers, and deploy the Next.js skeleton to Vercel with preview branches.

03

Core Feature Build

Week 4-6

Your product's primary workflows -- the dashboard, data views, CRUD operations, team invites, and notification system -- get built, reviewed, and deployed to staging.

04

Polish, Performance & QA

Week 7-8

We run Lighthouse audits, load-test with 5K simulated users, fix edge cases in billing and auth, add error tracking via Sentry, and finalize RLS policies.

05

Launch & Handoff

Week 9-10

Production deploy with monitoring, custom domain, transactional emails via Resend, documentation for your team, and a 30-day post-launch support window.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Most MVPs land between $25K and $60K depending on the number of user roles, billing complexity, and third-party integrations. A single-plan product with basic auth and Stripe checkout sits closer to $25K. Multi-tenant apps with SAML SSO, metered billing, and admin panels push toward $60K-$80K. Enterprise platforms with compliance requirements, audit logs, and complex permissioning can run $100K-$200K. We'll give you a fixed-price quote after the scoping call — no hourly surprises.
Three reasons: speed, cost, and iteration velocity. Next.js on Vercel gives you edge deployment with zero server management — your TTFB stays under 200ms globally without configuring a single load balancer. Supabase gives you Postgres, auth, real-time, and storage in one managed service that costs $25/month at launch. And because both your frontend and API routes live in one Next.js repo, a single full-stack developer can ship features that would require separate frontend, backend, and DevOps roles on Rails. You move faster with fewer people.
A typical SaaS build runs with 2-3 people: a senior full-stack engineer who owns the Next.js app and Supabase integration, a product engineer who handles UI components and user flows, and a technical lead who reviews architecture decisions, manages Stripe webhook logic, and handles the deploy pipeline. For larger projects we'll add a dedicated designer or a second backend engineer. You'll have a shared Slack channel and weekly demos on staging.
Yes, it's one of the things we build most often. We've shipped both patterns: shared-database with Supabase RLS policies isolating tenant data at the row level, and schema-per-tenant for clients with strict compliance needs (healthcare, finance). RLS is our default recommendation because it's simpler to maintain and Supabase makes the policies declarative. We'll advise on the right model based on your data sensitivity, tenant count, and regulatory requirements.
That's one of the biggest wins of this stack. At launch, most SaaS products run on Supabase's Pro plan ($25/month) and Vercel's Pro plan ($20/month). Add Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction and Resend for transactional emails at $20/month. You're looking at under $100/month in total infrastructure until you hit thousands of active users. Compare that to a Rails or Java app on AWS that easily costs $500-$2,000/month before you have a single paying customer.
We handle all of them — and there are more than most founders expect. Failed payment retries, subscription pauses, proration on mid-cycle upgrades, coupon/discount codes, tax calculation via Stripe Tax, invoice PDFs, dunning email sequences, and webhook idempotency. We've integrated Stripe Billing on 200+ projects, so we know exactly which webhook events to listen for and how to keep your local database in sync when Stripe processes events out of order. You'll get a billing system that doesn't leak revenue.
Every project includes a 30-day post-launch support window for bug fixes and deployment issues at no extra charge. After that, we offer monthly retainers starting at $3K/month for ongoing feature development, performance monitoring, dependency updates, and Supabase/Vercel config management. About 60% of our SaaS clients stay on a retainer because they'd rather keep the team that built the product than onboard new developers.
Both work. If you've got Figma files from your own designer, we'll implement them pixel-perfect using Tailwind CSS and Radix UI primitives. If you need design, our product designers will create a component-based design system in Figma before we write any code — typically 1-2 weeks for a full SaaS app. Either way, you'll end up with a consistent UI built on reusable components that your team can extend after handoff.
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