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📣 Punyakrit

What do founders want from a one person dev studio?


I’m a full stack developer and recently started a small solo studio:

https://www.launchcraft.studio/

The idea came from a pattern I kept seeing with early-stage founders:

They don’t usually struggle with ideas.

They struggle with execution speed.

Either they:

-hire agencies that take months

-or try to build themselves and get stuck midway

I’ve been focusing on helping with:

-MVPs

-landing pages

-small SaaS products

Mostly handling everything end-to-end (frontend, backend, deployment).

What I’m still trying to figure out is:

What do founders actually expect from a setup like this?

Some tradeoffs I’ve noticed:

-speed vs long-term scalability

-polish vs shipping quickly

-fixed scope vs iterative builds

If you’ve worked with freelancers / agencies / solo devs before:

-what worked well?

-what didn’t?

-what would make this actually valuable to you?

Trying to refine this into something genuinely useful rather than just another “dev service”.


  👤 Punyakrit Accepted Answer ✓
Happy to share more details about how I structure builds, timelines, or pricing if useful. Still figuring out the best model.