What gets in the way today.
Before we talk about what we build, it's worth naming what's actually slowing you down. These are the recurring blockers we hear from startups & founders - and the ones the rest of this page is built to solve.
No technical co-founder to build it
You have the vision, the customers, and the domain knowledge - but no one who can actually architect and ship the product. Hiring a senior engineer takes months and costs more than the entire MVP should, and a junior hire can't carry the whole stack alone.
You need an MVP in front of users now
Every week without something users can touch is a week of lost feedback, lost momentum, and burned runway. Investors and early customers want a working product they can log into - not a Figma deck or a waitlist landing page.
The budget is finite and the stakes are high
You can't afford to spend your seed money on a six-month build that ships late, or on cheap code you'll have to rewrite the moment you get traction. The first version has to be both fast to ship and solid enough to grow on.
Cheap dev shops leave you with a mess
Outsourced teams that disappear after launch hand you unmaintainable code, no documentation, no tests, and no path to scale. You inherit crippling technical debt before you've even found product-market fit.
You can't tell good engineering from good talk
Without a technical background, it's hard to know whether you're being sold a sensible architecture or an over-engineered castle. You need a partner who explains trade-offs in plain language and ships what you actually need.
Engineering built startups & founders.
Early-stage founders don't fail because their idea was wrong - they fail because they ran out of runway before they could put a real product in front of real users. Shunya closes that gap. We act as the senior engineering team you can't yet afford to hire full-time, owning architecture, frontend, backend, infrastructure, and deployment so you can stay focused on customers and fundraising. Every MVP we ship is a production system - users can sign up, pay, and use it - built on a clean, typed, documented codebase that scales with you instead of becoming the thing your next round has to rewrite. We scope in days, not weeks, deploy to staging every sprint so you always have something to demo to investors and design partners, and treat your runway like our own: no gold-plating, no six-month builds, just the smallest version that proves the thing and a foundation that's ready to grow the moment it does. When you raise and hire, your new engineers inherit a codebase they can actually read - mainstream stack, real documentation, real tests - not a black box they quietly want to throw away.
A full MVP, built end to end
We own frontend, backend, infrastructure, and deployment - one team, zero handoffs. You get a production system real users can sign up for and pay through, not a brittle prototype that falls over the first time it gets traffic.
Live in four to eight weeks
We scope in days, not weeks, and deploy to staging every sprint so you see working software the whole way through. Most MVPs go from kickoff to a real, public launch in four to eight weeks.
A modern stack you won't outgrow
Next.js, tRPC, and Prisma let us move fast without piling up debt. The codebase is clean, fully typed, documented, and ready for the in-house engineers you'll hire right after you raise.
Equity-friendly via our accelerator
Pre-seed founders can build with us through the Shunya accelerator, blending cash and equity so a tight budget doesn't stop you from shipping a serious, investor-ready product.
Honest timelines and bi-weekly demos
No status decks, no vanishing acts. You get a written spec before the first line of code and a real, deployable build every two weeks, so you always know exactly where the money is going and where the product stands.
Documentation and a clean handoff
Everything ships with documentation, tests, and thirty days of post-launch support. When you build an in-house team, they inherit a codebase they can actually read, trust, and extend on day one.
A clear path from first call to live.
No mystery, no black box. You see a written scope up front and working software at the end of every sprint, so you always know where the project stands and where the budget is going.
Sprint 4 ships
Staging deploy
Sprint 5 planning
Bi-weekly cycle
v1.0 Production
Final QA + audit
Discovery & spec
We pin down the core loop your MVP has to nail, cut everything that isn't load-bearing, and hand you a written spec and architecture plan in one to two weeks - so you know the scope, stack, and timeline before we build.
Build in sprints
We work in two-week sprints with a deployable build at the end of every one. You test real software continuously and steer the roadmap as user feedback comes in, instead of waiting months for a big reveal.
Launch to production
We ship to a real, monitored production environment with auth, payments, analytics, and CI/CD wired in - a system that's ready for your first hundred users and your first investor demo.
Support & handoff
Thirty days of post-launch support, full documentation, and a clean handoff. Stay with us as your fractional engineering team, or hand it to the hires you make after the raise - your call.
The capabilities behind the work.
One team owns the whole stack, but it's built from distinct, battle-tested capabilities. These are the ones that come up most for this kind of work - follow any of them for the full detail.
Transparent pricing, no surprises.
Web Engineering projects start at $1,599. Every engagement gets a fixed, written scope before a line of code is written - see the full breakdown of tiers and what each includes on our pricing page.
MVP / Startup
Rapid prototyping and launch for early-stage products.
- Next.js 15 Architecture
- Responsive UI/UX (Tailwind)
- Basic CMS Integration
- Authentication (Auth.js)
Scale / Business
PopularProduction-grade systems for growing businesses.
- Everything in MVP
- PostgreSQL/Prisma DB
- Payment Gateway (Stripe)
- Admin Dashboard Panel
Enterprise
Complex distributed systems for large organizations.
- Microservices Architecture
- Custom AI/LLM Integration
- Real-time Systems (WebSockets)
- Global CDN Strategy
FAQ
Questions,
answered
What startups & founders usually want to know before starting a project with Shunya.
Yes - that's exactly the gap we fill. We handle architecture, engineering, infrastructure, and deployment end to end, so you can focus on customers, fundraising, and the business while we ship the product. Many of our founders treat us as their fractional engineering team well past launch.
Let's build something that ships.
One team that owns everything from concept to production. Tell us what you're building and we'll scope it in weeks - then start shipping real software.