Shipping a production V1 in 7 days is not a marketing claim: it is a repeatable method. Khufu designs, builds and deploys a real product — web SaaS or mobile app — in one calendar week, for a fixed price of €15,000, with source code handed over. The speed comes from four levers, not magic: a deliberately tight scope, a proven stack, AI-assisted development at every step, and continuous deployment from day one. Here is the day-by-day breakdown.
Day 0 — scoping
Before a single line of code, we lock the exact scope of the V1 in a short document: the problem solved, the 3 to 5 essential user journeys, and above all what is explicitly out of scope. That document becomes the contract. It is the most important decision of the week: every feature you cut is a day you gain. No scope creep along the way — ideas that surface after scoping go into the V2 backlog.
Days 1–2 — product design and foundations
The first two days lay the base everything else rests on. We design the key screens directly as reusable components, and wire up the technical backbone.
- Design of the core journeys, thought through as components from the start to avoid any rework.
- Stack setup: Next.js or React Native/Expo on the front, NestJS, Prisma and PostgreSQL on the back.
- Authentication, database and infrastructure wired and secured.
- The product skeleton is deployed to production by the evening of day 2, on a real URL.
Days 3–5 — building the core journeys
This is the heart of the week. We build the essential features one by one, deploying continuously: every evening, the product is testable online, on real data. This short loop kills the tunnel effect — you watch the V1 take shape live and can redirect a decision in hours, not weeks. AI-assisted development does the work of a small team in a fraction of the time, without sacrificing quality: the code stays strictly typed in TypeScript, tested on critical paths and maintainable.
Tight scope, fast decisions, continuous deployment: it is that combination, not heroics, that makes one week enough.
Days 6–7 — polish, testing and go-live
The last two days turn a working product into a shippable one: testing the critical paths, fixing the final defects, polishing interface details, documentation and handover. By Friday evening your V1 is running in production, the source code is entirely yours, and you can put it in the hands of your first users.
Why one week is enough
One week is not a shortcut that sacrifices quality: it is what a disciplined scope combined with modern tooling makes possible. Most projects do not take months because they are complex, but because scope balloons, decisions drag, and code is thrown away and rewritten. Remove those three sources of waste and seven days are enough for a clean, production-ready product that is ready to grow — with no technical debt to repay later.