Product scoping
Personas, journeys, MVP scope: we define success before writing a line of code.
An MVP in weeks, an architecture that scales and a CTO by your side, without a CTO’s salary.
Typical MVP in 8 weeks · budget scoped together on the discovery call
Custom SaaS and MVP development in Switzerland, by a freelance full-stack developer based in Mies (Vaud), co-founder and CTO of Orizn. A product you can bill rather than a prototype: Next.js, PostgreSQL, authentication and Stripe payments, on the architecture I run in production at Orizn, with a CTO at your side without a CTO’s salary.
The offer is for founders who have validated an idea and want their first paying customers, SMEs turning in-house know-how into subscription software, and teams that need a solid MVP before fundraising. Success is defined before the first line of code: personas, journeys, MVP scope.
You get a live, billable product: multi-tenant, authentication, Stripe billing in production, continuous integration and deployment, alerts and metrics so you see everything, all the time. The foundations are designed for version ten, not just version one, and the uptime target is 99.9%.
The project runs in six steps: product scoping, architecture, one-week sprints with a demo every Friday, launch, activation of the first customers, then follow-up. A typical MVP becomes billable in eight weeks. Every month, a report gives recurring revenue (MRR), churn, uptime and next actions.
I work remotely and by video call across Switzerland and France, and on site in Geneva by appointment, when the project requires it and as far as possible.
YOUR QUESTIONS
The cost of a SaaS depends on the MVP scope, the number of roles and screens, the integrations (payments, third-party tools), the security requirements and the iterations planned after launch. A well-scoped MVP costs less than a full product from day one. The budget is set on the discovery call, before any commitment.
A typical MVP becomes billable in eight weeks: scoping, architecture, then one-week sprints with a demo every Friday, up to a launch with payments in production. The exact duration depends on the scope set at the start; iterations then continue every month, at the pace of the first customers.
An MVP, or minimum viable product, is the first version of a piece of software that solves your customers’ core problem and can already be sold. It holds only the essentials, but it is genuinely in production, with authentication, payments and monitoring, so you learn from early users before going further.
A SaaS needs a CTO’s technical decisions: architecture, security, choice of vendors, priorities. Without hiring one full time, a full-stack developer who is also a CTO can carry those decisions during the build, then a fractional CTO format can take over after launch.
“Projects change. The method never does.”
Personas, journeys, MVP scope: we define success before writing a line of code.
Multi-tenant, auth, billing: foundations built for v10, not just v1.
One-week sprints, a demo every Friday: the product grows before your eyes.
Stripe payments live, alerts on, a launch checklist followed point by point.
Guided onboarding, first customers followed one by one: we measure who pays and why.
A report every month: MRR, churn, uptime, next actions.
A report like this one, every month, in your inbox.
Goals, scope, budget: everything in writing.
Documented, justified technical choices.
Short sprints, a demo every Friday.
Automated tests, continuous deployment and alerts from day one.
Errors, slowdowns and usage tracked continuously: problems show up before anyone reports them.
The stack that takes growth in stride: the one I run at Orizn.
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Co-founder and CTO of Orizn: your project gets the standard I hold my own product to.
A tooled process: automated tests, monitoring and a monthly report. Nothing relies on memory.
Your data stays protected: GDPR & Swiss FADP by default.
Based in Mies (Vaud), between Geneva and Lausanne. Remote across Switzerland, France and beyond. Reply within 24 business hours.
SAMPLE ENGAGEMENT
A startup selling scheduling software to veterinary clinics in Switzerland, France and Belgium: a billable SaaS in eight weeks, first subscriptions paid in francs and euros, one iteration every month.
45 minutes, free, no strings attached. We talk about your project and you leave with an honest opinion, whether we work together or not.
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