Austin founders: launch your MVP in just 2–4 weeks.

We help Austin's founders build and bring lean app MVPs to market. Through a combination of in-house developer tooling, tuned AI models, a decade of experience, and a couple weeks of late nights, we can develop minimum viable products in as fast as two weeks.
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Have a project in mind? We will help you figure out the technical solution and scope (for free).

We helped Austin's US BCSD divert 9,200 tons of materials from landfills, and get their platform acquired in the process.

Spaceboat helped develop and maintain the Austin, Texas based United States Business Council for Sustainable Development's Materials Marketplace, through its eventual acquisition. The Materials Marketplace user base grew to include dozens of Fortune 500 companies, state and local governments, and manufacturing partners throughout North America. Read more about the acquisition here. We are extremely proud to have played a role in diverting more that 9,200 tons of material from landfills.

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The best way to evaluate an app is to just launch it.

One of our specialties is helping Austin's founders build minimum viable products (MVPs) and bring them to market for evaluation, user research, and even immediate monetization. Through a combination of in-house developer tools, tuned AI models, a couple weeks of late nights, together with a decade of experience, we help founders launch working demos in as fast as two weeks, so you can focus on keeping Austin weird (and running your business).

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We follow a simple 3-step process to launch your MVP.

1. Scope it.

We start with a focused strategy call to understand your idea, your goals, and the leanest path to launch. Then we deliver a fixed-price proposal — no surprises.

2. Build it.

In just 2–4 weeks, we design and develop a sharp, beta-ready prototype or MVP. No bloated features. Just the essentials that help you prove traction fast. Everything is done in house - we don't send your IP overseas.

3. Launch it.

We help you ship, onboard your first users, and validate your business model to secure your next funding round or scale your revenue.

No hourly surprises. Just clear, fixed pricing — so you can finally budget with confidence.

After a quick strategy call, we’ll place your app into one four pricing tiers based on scope, complexity, and your app's planned scale. Once your development price is set, it’s set. No hidden fees, hourly rates, or change orders (unless requested). Just peace of mind and a clear path to launch.

Prototype

Great for evaluation of business model and core app functionality. Typically released as part of a closed beta and not meant to be public facing. This includes a mobile front-end and limited server functionality to test a core feature of your app.

$5k - $10k

MVP

Our standard MVP tier, with more complete app functionality and a full-stack (mobile and server) app, you can be ready to release to an open beta, and handle early launch of your app. This is our most popular tier for new founders.

$10k - $15k

Complete

More complex features and requirements (think augmented reality, social networking, machine learning, payment systems, etc.). The complete tier includes a full stack app and polished UI/UX, ready to deploy for a public launch so that you can start onboarding users and generating revenue.

$15k - $25k

Scale

When you're ready to scale your app up and onboard 50k+ customers. We'll handle feature development, deployment of a horizontally scalable server, CI/CD workflow development, implementation of devops processes, as well as deployment of a full stack mobile app is ready to launch nationwide or globally.

$25k+

We are industry leaders in AI application development.

We started developing AI applications early, and since then have become leaders at building and helping founders launch AI-based applications. Reach out to us if you're curious about building your own AI app, whether to use internally at your business or bring to market. In the meantime, check out some of Spaceboat's live AI products below.

We built a CMS automation tool for Webflow.

Quilly is a CMS automation tool that leverages tuned AI models to fully automate generating content for your site, whether in bulk or on a recurring basis. Choose themes, keywords to insert in posts, and customize how each field is generated, then you are off to the races - everything else is handled for you. It will even generate matching images for your content.

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We built an app that automatically summarizes then shares your blog posts to your social feeds.

Postblaster enables you to deploy pipelines that automatically write commentaries and publish articles to your social feeds, automatically.

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We create the smoothest user experiences in the game.

Just because we can build apps extraordinarily fast doesn't mean they aren't top of the line in quality. We focus on building rich, enjoyable, and intuitive user experiences.

Learn from our Swift experts.

Spaceboat created this blog as a quick way for newer Swift devs to onboard to the language. We focus on a new concept for every post, and aim to provide you with simple code examples for you to experiment with.

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Understanding Swift's Protocol-Oriented Programming

Discover the power of Swift's protocol-oriented programming for creating flexible, reusable, and maintainable code. Learn to master protocols and enhance you...

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Understanding Swift Enumerations: Features and Benefits

Discover the power of Swift enumerations for type-safe value grouping, enhanced code readability, and versatile data handling techniques.

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Mastering Swift Optionals for Safe Value Handling

Discover the power of Swift optionals for safely handling absence of values. Learn about defining, unwrapping, and their benefits for safer code.

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Square Apps for your shop, for a fixed monthly fee.

We offer customized and fully branded order-ahead apps for your brick and mortar Square shop or e-commerce op. Integrated with Apple Pay and Google Pay, your customers can order and check out with a couple taps. With built in custom subscriptions and memberships, start pulling in monthly recurring revenue for your business.

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Check out our more advanced guides to brush up on developing with Swift, AWS, and Flutter.

If you're ready to launch your app MVP, we're ready to build it. Send us a note to get started.

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