Straight answers on what software costs, when AI-built apps break, and how to decide what to build. Written by the people doing the work, not a content team.
Your prototype works. That is genuinely the hard part, and AI builders have made it dramatically cheaper. What follows is the part they do not do for you — and a way to tell whether you need a repair or a rebuild.
Quotes for the same MVP routinely range from £5,000 to £150,000, which tells founders almost nothing. Here is what actually drives the number, and how to read a quote that looks too good.
These are not competing options — they solve different problems. The expensive mistake is hiring an agency when your actual problem is that nobody is qualified to tell them what to build.