How we ship an MVP in 4 weeks
Apr 28, 2026 · 8 min read
The four-week MVP is not about working harder. It is about removing the things that slow most teams down: junior engineers waiting on review, decision-by-committee, custom infrastructure, and feature creep.
Week one is scope and architecture. We lock the smallest product surface that proves the core hypothesis, choose a known-good stack (Angular + .NET or Next.js + Node), and stand up a staging environment behind auth.
Weeks two and three are pure delivery. Two senior engineers ship features in parallel, demoing daily, with AI-augmented tooling for boilerplate, tests, and migrations. We track scope ruthlessly — anything that is not in the original brief gets logged for v2.
Week four is harden and ship. Real user testing, performance pass, security review, production deploy, and a short handover doc. The founders get a working product, a clean codebase, and a roadmap for the next quarter.