Hire app developers without the hiring.
Skip the job posts, interviews and notice periods. A senior team that has shipped eleven live products starts on your app within a week, at a fixed price agreed before any work begins.
- Start
- Within a week
- First version
- $6k – $12k fixed
- Monthly team
- from from $4k/mo
- You own
- 100% of the code
Who it’s built for.
- Founders who need an app built now and can’t wait three months to hire
- Companies with one product idea that doesn’t justify a permanent team
- Teams whose developers are busy on the core product
- Anyone who has been burned by an hourly freelancer before
Hiring developers vs hiring a team that ships
Hiring one good app developer in the US or UK takes two to four months and costs a six-figure salary before they write a line of code. Freelance marketplaces are faster to start but put the management, the testing and the risk on you.
Hiring us works differently. You get a technical lead, engineers and a designer as one team, a written scope and a fixed price. You review working software on a staging link every week, and the code sits in your GitHub from the first commit.
What’s included
In scope
- iOS, Android and web apps, cross-platform or native, whichever fits
- Back end, database and admin panel
- Sign-up, payments, notifications and analytics
- App Store and Google Play submission under your accounts
- Testing, monitoring and a security pass before launch
- Documentation and a handover call
Available as add-ons
- Ongoing feature work after launch, as a monthly team
- Hardware and device integrations beyond Bluetooth and the camera
- Store listing copy and screenshots
How it runs, week by week.
Scope call
Twenty-five minutes on what the app must do. A fixed scope and price in writing within 24 hours.
Team starts
Your technical lead sets up the repository, design and data model in your accounts.
Build
Working builds on your phone every week through TestFlight and an Android test track.
Ship and hand over
Store submission, monitoring, documentation and two weeks of fixes.
What it costs to hire us
Prices in US dollars.
| Factor | Effect on price |
|---|---|
| More than one type of user | Adds $1,000 – $2,000 |
| Offline mode | Adds $2,000 – $5,000 |
| In-app purchases or subscriptions | Adds $1,000 – $3,000 |
| Finished designs in Figma | Lowers the price |
Paid in milestones: 50% to start, 40% when you can use it on staging, 10% at launch (40/40/20 on larger projects). Prices are set for each market, not converted at the day’s exchange rate.
Your options, side by side.
| In-house hire | Freelancer | Staff augmentation | v1build team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to start | 2–4 months to recruit | Days | 2–4 weeks | Within a week |
| What you pay for | Salary, benefits and equipment | Hours | Hours, per developer | A fixed price for an agreed result |
| Who manages the work | You | You | You | Our technical lead |
| Design, testing and launch | Separate hires | Rarely included | Separate developers | Included |
| If it overruns | You absorb it | More hours | More hours | The price doesn’t move |
Questions, answered.
How much does it cost to hire an app developer?
In-house app developers in the US typically cost well over $100,000 a year in salary alone. Freelancers charge from about $25 to $150 an hour depending on location and experience. A full app from us has a fixed price, shown above in your currency.
Can I hire a single developer from you?
We work as small teams with a technical lead, because that is what gets apps shipped. For ongoing work, a monthly team can be as small as one engineer plus a part-time lead.
Where are your developers based?
In India, with working hours that overlap your mornings in the US and Canada, most of the UK day, and the full UAE day. Your lead joins calls in your time zone.
Do I interview the team?
Yes. You meet your technical lead on the scope call, and you can meet the engineers before the build starts.
Who owns the app?
You do. The code, store listings and cloud accounts are yours from day one, and all rights are assigned on payment.
Your v1 could be live next month.
Tell us what you are building. Get a fixed scope and price in writing within 24 hours.
Prefer email? hello@v1build.com