FirstEngineer

For founders with a deck and no product

A version one customers can sign up for and pay for

The idea has been six months old for six months. What's missing isn't strategy — it's the two to four weeks of building nobody has done yet.

Scrapebit — built by FirstEngineer

What this looks like

Where the work actually goes

MVP with auth & billing

The unglamorous foundations — accounts, payments, admin — done properly the first time.

Public API & SDK

If other developers are the customer, the interface they touch gets designed too.

Services involved

What gets built to do it

How it runs

Same four steps, every project

  1. 01

    Scope

    A call, then a one-page scope: what gets built, what it costs, what date it lands, and what is explicitly not included.

  2. 02

    Build

    The core of the thing first, on your infrastructure from day one. A working demo every Friday, whether the week went well or not.

  3. 03

    Harden

    The parts everyone skips — empty states, errors, retries, analytics, and the case where a user does something strange.

  4. 04

    Ship

    Live, with monitoring and a handover doc. Two weeks of support included, then you take it or we stay on.

Other situations we build for

Tell us what you need built

Thirty minutes, free, no proposal. You leave with a scope, a number, and a date — or an honest reason why we’re not the right people.