Software Development for Startups
Let’s Co-Create Products the Market Needs
ScienceSoft is inspired by the immense possibilities that startups open for individuals and the business world. Have a product idea that lights up your eyes? ScienceSoft is ready to develop your product and realize the full market value you envision, no matter the budget and time constraints.
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ScienceSoft’s Experience and Development Capacity You Will Benefit From
A custom software development company, we have all roles to support end-to-end custom software development for startups: product consultants, developers, niche experts in techs for advanced functions (e.g., blockchain, AI, computer vision), regulation compliance officers, cloud engineers.
You can check our 130+ testimonials from clients to learn what cooperation experience we strive to create.
Among software products we co-created and launched are:
Viber, a messaging and VoIP app with 1B+ users.
Goldfire Innovator, an AI-powered semantic search engine.
Aklos Health, an IoT-based physiotherapy platform.
We deeply understand software specifics in such industries as healthcare, banking, insurance, financial services, retail, entertainment, telecoms, and many others.
Our technology partners, quality certificates, and awards
7 Steps to Develop Software for Startups
We organize the process of startup software development in 7 clear steps to move fast and give you a competitive advantage of time. The sooner we launch your product, the sooner we understand how well it targets the users’ needs and can further iterate more knowingly.
1.
Shaping a product idea
You share your idea, and we help finalize it. Competitive market research and USP ideation and validation are our key activities at this stage.
2.
Putting together the product functionality
You get a comprehensive functional specification where a general product concept is split into separate features and described in detail.
3.
Planning a Minimum Viable Product
To offer you the shortest time-to-market, we can start with a product version that does not only perform main functions but is attractive to users. At this step, we prioritize features and create a functional specification for an MVP.
4.
Branding and design
Tell us how you imagine your product’s look, what values you want to reflect, what colors feel yours — in a word, everything that inspires your eye. Following your vision, we will create and polish visual mockups for your product. If you need something extra for fundraising, we can go with an interactive prototype where your potential investors can click on everything and see how the final product will function.
5.
Architecture design
We draw how all product components relate to each other and plan external APIs if your product requires connections with other third-party systems.
6.
Technology stack selection
Now that we understand the functionality, architecture, and design of your product, we select technologies that will allow us to deliver everything planned.
7.
Agile development
We vote for Agile to go by short cycles of development–quality assurance–release and leave you the opportunity to re-think further plan at any moment and do what’s better for the product experience.
Check How Your Peers Succeeded with ScienceSoft
Startups Share the Experience of Co-Creating Software Products with ScienceSoft
Our goal was to secure technical support for product development and supplement our in-house IT expertise to accelerate the launch. ScienceSoft quickly integrated into our development workflow, maintained transparent communication, and improved the efficiency of our in-house developers. Thanks to ScienceSoft, we achieved our project goals on time and within budget, utilizing frequent Scrum releases.
In less than 4 months, ScienceSoft’s team performed a discovery phase to help us define an optimal approach to crypto wallet development. They came up with a go-to architecture, features, and tech stack for our multi-chain wallet, and introduced a detailed roadmap for crypto wallet implementation, including cost and time estimates. Besides, ScienceSoft helped us develop a corporate website to represent essential technical information and a white paper for our potential customers and investors.
We are thankful for the comprehensive suite of product redesign and app evolution services provided by ScienceSoft. They were very knowledgeable when it came to choosing value-adding features, and they also performed thorough usability testing. The team’s flexibility is beyond praise, as any time we brought up new ideas, they quickly adapted to our changing requirements.
Abdulaziz Alibrahim
Founder
As of the start of my cooperation with ScienceSoft, I needed competent and proactive consulting to help me shape my startup idea of a mobile app for social networking into a tangible business plan. <ScienceSoft’s> business consultant helped validate the feasibility of my business idea by conducting market entry consulting: competitors’ assessment (product efficiencies and drawbacks, pricing and monetization strategies, customer feedback analysis), research of regulatory barriers, and mobile app conceptualization.
Exciting Product Capabilities to Help You Fundraise and Amaze
Our goal is not to advertise these exact capabilities but to show you diverse possibilities we use to increase the product’s value.
Multi-user communication
encompassing private messaging, group chats, voice and video communication, and collaboration tools.
to process and act on real-time personal data (e.g., from wearables) or data about the environment (e.g., from smart home devices).
Multilanguage interface
not only translated but also adjusted visually to different language systems (e.g., left-to-right and right-to-left systems).
Hyper-personalization
based on AI and real-time user data.
to extract information (e.g., data patterns, object classification) from visual and video files without human intervention.
Accessibility
to make software convenient for people with different visual, mobility, and cognitive abilities.
Location-based services
to serve geography-specific information to users.
capable of interpreting historical and real-time data and making informed predictions.
How Fast You Can Release a Product with ScienceSoft
By bringing extra heads and hands to your project, you can move on with your product idea much faster and grab the market opportunities before your competitors do. The timelines surely depend on your product’s complexity, but our average speed is:
2–4 weeks for a prototype
You can use a clickable prototype to sell your product idea to investors and fundraise or to test the idea with representative users.
2–6 months for an MVP
You can launch an MVP to collect the feedback from early adopters and know what they lack in a product.
1 day–2 weeks to deliver new features
You don’t have to wait for major product releases and have new functionality launched fast.
Learn Average Costs and Request a Tailored Cost Estimate
The cost of prototype development falls within the range of $2,000 and $5,000. It includes the creation of a clickable mockup of the interface.
The cost of MVP development ranges more widely between $40,000 and $300,000. It implies the creation of a market-ready product with limited functionality.
When trying to develop an MVP, startups may fall into a trap known as just-one-more-feature. The reluctance to sacrifice even a minor feature quickly leads to the scope of MVP extending, the cost inevitably growing, and the development time going beyond planned several months.
To stay within the idea of a minimum product, we select must-have features that form the core of your product and add features that make up your unique selling proposition. As a rule, that’s enough to enter the market with a competitive edge in your favor.
How You Benefit from ScienceSoft’s Approach
Software development for startups is aimed at helping young companies translate their fresh, disruptive, innovative ideas into market-ready software products. This is how we make the journey easier for you.
We thoroughly dig into your requirements and expectations at the discovery stage to plan the project, provide realistic cost estimation, and save you from extra fundraising rounds caused by budget overrunning.
Development agility
We quickly respond to changing requirements: we can shift the priorities in feature development or plan new value-adding features. This allows us to do what’s best for your product instead of blindly following the initial plan.
Proactivity and sincere commitment
If we took up the co-creation of your product, it means we believe in its value. So, we will be certainly interested to deliver its best version and will eagerly participate in such important decisions as feature planning, tech stack selection, UX and UI, and more.
We create project documentation to facilitate your further maintenance of the product. Along with standard documentation, we can create software-related documents for investors (e.g., a white paper).
Protection of intellectual property
We sign an NDA when we only start negotiating our potential partnership, so your product idea is protected either we are hired for the project or not. We also outline any sensitive matters (e.g., your full ownership of the code) in the service agreement.
Are There Any Questions Left? Check Our FAQs
What should I do if I have just a rough product idea so far?
If you don’t have any particular development plans right now, it may be early to engage software developers for startups. You may benefit more from consulting at this stage. Studies show that more than 30% of startups fail due to a lack of product-market fit. So, we can start from analyzing the competitive market and proving the feasibility of your idea. Then, we can decide which product version you need right now – a proof of concept, a prototype, or an MVP (we described the difference here) — and go ahead with the development.
I’ve started the development of my product and now I’m considering changing the vendor. Still, I don’t want to postpone the market entry for long. How much time will you need to understand what has been done and continue?
It depends on the state of project documentation and the quality of fulfilled work. If everything is fine, the onboarding can take 1–2 weeks. If we need to collect the knowledge by pieces and audit the previous work, the onboarding will take longer (from 2 weeks and more, depending on the amount of work).
How will our routine collaboration be built?
Our key principle in collaboration is convenience and transparency for a client. So, we can plan our communication and reporting schedule in a way that doesn’t steal much of your time while keeps you constantly updated on the progress. In case your immediate decisions are needed, we will surely contact you outside the schedule.
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