Your SaaS Prototype Works. Your Production Architecture Doesn't.
If you're a founder who's already burned $40K on a Bubble MVP that won't scale past 500 users, you've learned the hard lesson: marketplaces need real code.
You have an idea for a SaaS product or marketplace. You need user authentication, subscription payments, a dashboard for each user, admin controls, and the core feature that makes your platform unique. A traditional agency will quote $300K and 9 months. AI builders like Lovable and Bolt will get you a demo in 30 minutes -- but it breaks the moment you need real multi-tenant architecture, Stripe Connect escrow, or complex business logic. We build the real thing.
Your SaaS platform goes live the moment a second paying customer logs in and can't see the first customer's data. That's multi-tenant architecture -- row-level security, isolated workspaces, real separation. Not just authentication. Not just separate accounts. True data isolation where your infrastructure serves hundreds of tenants without a single security boundary crossing. Marketplaces compound that. Now your platform connects buyers to sellers, handles escrow through Stripe Connect, calculates commissions across disputed transactions, and processes refunds when a buyer ghosts mid-order. One misconfigured payout flow destroys seller trust permanently. In marketplaces, sellers leaving is extinction. Under the hood: subscription billing wired through Stripe (failed charges, proration, disputes), dashboards that surface business-critical metrics, admin controls so you can actually run the operation, and your core differentiation logic -- the matching algorithm, the commission structure, the access rules that make your platform worth building. That last part is the real engineering. We've built authentication and tenant isolation so many times it's reflex. But your specific business logic? That's what we architect together in week one.
What is holding your current website back?
The gaps that surface when prototypes meet real users and real payments.
How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
Multi-Tenant SaaS
Each customer gets their own isolated workspace using Supabase row-level security -- so there's no scenario where tenant data bleeds across accounts. Stripe subscriptions handle monthly and annual plans, feature flags control what each tier can access, and the whole thing provisions automatically the moment someone signs up. Pretty straightforward to use, genuinely complex to build correctly.
Two-Sided Marketplace
Buyers and sellers each get their own dashboards built around what they actually need. Stripe Connect handles escrow payments, commission calculations, and payout scheduling. Search runs through Algolia. And review systems -- with all the moderation headaches that come with them -- are built into the core workflow, not bolted on later.
Subscription Content Platform
Content gets gated behind subscription tiers, with usage-based billing, free trials, and upgrade flows that don't feel clunky. Video, articles, courses, downloads -- all of it is access-controlled per plan level. The real kicker is making those upgrade prompts convert without annoying your users.
Booking & Scheduling Platform
Multi-provider availability management, calendar integrations, automated reminders -- plus payment collection at booking and the cancellation and rescheduling workflows that every booking platform eventually needs. Because users will reschedule at 11pm on a Sunday, and the system has to handle it.
Admin & Analytics Dashboard
Platform-wide metrics, user management, content moderation, financial reporting, and the operational tools you need to actually run the business day-to-day. Real-time data, not yesterday's CSV exports sitting in someone's email.
API & Webhook Infrastructure
A public API lets other tools plug into your platform -- and that's when your product starts becoming infrastructure for someone else's workflow. Webhook system for real-time events, rate limiting, API key management, developer documentation. Suddenly you're not just a SaaS; you're a platform.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Ship production-ready architecture that handles 100K users without a rebuild
You launch on infrastructure that scales to traction -- not a prototype you rebuild at 1K users
Wire Stripe subscriptions with edge-case handling most devs miss entirely
Your billing handles failed charges, proration, refunds, and disputes without manual reconciliation every month
Reduce upfront cost through equity partnership for exceptional founding teams
We become your technical co-founder -- not a vendor who ghosts you after deploy
Deploy with CI/CD pipelines, Sentry monitoring, and PostHog analytics live
Your platform ships with error tracking, analytics, transactional email, and performance optimization baked in
Iterate features and pricing models without torching the entire codebase
You can pivot subscription tiers or add user roles without starting from scratch six months later
Reference real platforms we built: 137K-listing marketplaces, 4-tier SaaS products
You're building on patterns we've executed across marketplaces, directories, and multi-tier SaaS products
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
Product Discovery
Week 1-2We define your core user journey, data model, and monetization strategy together. Then we identify the 20% of features that'll deliver 80% of the value for your MVP -- because scope creep is how timelines and budgets die. You walk away with a product spec and a fixed-price quote.
Architecture & Design
Week 3-4Multi-tenant database schema, API design, Stripe integration plan, UI wireframes -- the full technical blueprint. You approve everything before a single line of production code gets written. No surprises three months in.
Core Platform Build
Week 5-8Authentication, user onboarding, subscription billing, and the primary user dashboard -- deployed to staging with real Stripe test mode so you can actually run payment scenarios from day one. Not mock data. Real flows.
Features & Polish
Week 9-11Core differentiating features, admin dashboard, email notifications, search and filtering. Each sprint ends with a demo of working software you can test against real scenarios -- not a slide deck about what we're planning to build.
Launch + Growth
Week 12Production deployment, monitoring, analytics, team training, and 30 days of free support after launch. Then ongoing development at $5--15K per month to iterate based on what real users actually do -- which is almost never exactly what you planned.
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