Full-day overlap

MVP Development for UK Startups

A London working day and mine overlap almost completely, which for an MVP build matters more than it sounds: you are not batching questions for a once-a-week call, you are getting answers inside the same day you asked.

The other UK-specific decision worth making before scoping starts is how much of UK GDPR to build in from day one. Most MVPs do not need a full compliance programme, but a few decisions, what you collect and how you delete it, are far cheaper to get right at the first schema design than to retrofit after launch.

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How this actually works

What is different about a UK build

A full working day of overlap, not a scheduled call

The weekly build review sits naturally inside UK office hours, so this feels closer to an in-house team checking in with you than a remote vendor you have to chase.

Deletion and data minimisation, decided at scoping, not after launch

If the MVP collects any personal data, I ask what you would need to delete and how, before the schema is designed. It costs nothing at that stage; it is a real rework cost if a user, or the ICO, asks for it after you have shipped.

Screens are priced the same whether they are consumer or B2B

UK founders sometimes assume a compliance-heavier product costs more per screen. It does not: the $80 rate is flat. What changes is how a screen gets built, not what it costs.

GBP or USD, whichever your accountant prefers

The rate is set in USD and converted at the prevailing rate if you would rather invoice in sterling. Either way, the total is fixed at scoping, not something that moves with the exchange rate mid-build.

Built to survive a Cyber Essentials or enterprise questionnaire later

I do not build MVP-stage products to a Cyber Essentials standard, that is the wrong stage to spend on it, but I do not make architecture decisions that would make getting there expensive later either.

What you're actually buying

Scoping, the build, and launch

Week 0

Scoping: every screen counted and priced

We go through everything you think the MVP needs, screen by screen, and cut it down to what actually has to exist to test the thing you're testing. Every remaining screen gets counted and priced at $80, across whichever platform it needs — mobile, web, desktop, or Linux. You leave with a scope doc and a total, not an estimate that moves once we start.

The build

Design and development, with you seeing it every week

My Panicle Tech design and engineering team builds it, screen by screen; I own the architecture, the code review, and the calls that are expensive to get wrong. You get a working build to look at every week, not a status update. If a screen turns out to need more than was scoped once it's half-built, that gets priced honestly before it's fully built, never absorbed silently.

Launch

Handover, and two weeks of me still answering the phone

Deployed, monitored, and documented well enough that the next engineer who touches it isn't guessing. Two weeks of post-launch support are included, because the bugs that matter are the ones your first real users find, not the ones QA finds.

Why me, for this market specifically

Experience, not a capabilities deck

Plenty of teams can build screens. Fewer have shipped for UK specifically, been wrong about it, and had to fix it with their own name on the commit. Here's what I'm bringing.

Full working-day overlap with UK hours
M.Tech in Cybersecurity: data handling is a first-class design decision, not an afterthought
Invoicing in GBP or USD, whichever is less friction for your finance team
Same $80 per-screen rate regardless of data sensitivity

Pricing

from $80 a screen. Counted up front.

Design and build, screen by screen, across mobile, web, desktop, and Linux. My Panicle Tech team designs and builds it; I own the architecture and the technical decisions as advisor on the project. Added screens are priced at the same rate, never renegotiated after the fact.

MVP Design & Development

from $80

per screen

Scoping week: every screen counted and priced up front
UI/UX design and full-stack development, screen by screen
Built by my Panicle Tech design and engineering team
I own the architecture, code review, and technical direction
Mobile, web, desktop, and Linux apps, whichever the product needs
Deployment, monitoring, and handover documentation
Two weeks of post-launch support
Added screens priced at the same per-screen rate, never renegotiated after the fact
Option to continue on a fractional retainer

Full pricing and the scoping process →

Questions

UK founders, specifically

Do you build to UK GDPR compliance?

I am not a GDPR consultant, and for legal interpretation you want one. What I do is make the early architecture decisions, data minimisation and a real deletion path, that make compliance achievable later instead of expensive. That is a design discipline, not a certificate I am issuing.

Can you invoice in GBP?

Yes. The rate is fixed in USD and converted at the prevailing rate at invoicing if sterling is easier for you.

Is the timezone actually a non-issue?

Yes. It is the closest overlap of any market I build for, which in practice means the weekly review lands naturally in your working day rather than needing to be scheduled around it.

More general questions about pricing, timeline, and what's included are answered on the main MVP development page.

Earned, Not Claimed

What the founders and teams I build with say

I had the pleasure of working with Kunal while building out my MVP and I have to say that it was pleasure to both interact and work with him and his team. As a first time founder, I had a lot of self doubt and internal ruptures, however Kunal's calm, never-say-die and never-panic attitude often helped bring me back to center. I can't vouch for him enough.

Anand Tahiliani

Founder, Debaser Technologies

I had the pleasure of working closely with Kunal during my time as a Product Manager at DhunGuru. As our CTO, Kunal and his team at Panicle Tech worked closely with me across the entire product journey, from building and launching our mobile apps to developing and maintaining our web platforms. His technical expertise, ownership, and willingness to collaborate made a real difference, and I genuinely enjoyed working with him throughout the journey.

Anirudh Joshi

Product Manager, DhunGuru

Kunal helped us architect Mosler's core platform, connecting smart lock hardware, our cloud dashboard, and PMS integrations into one reliable system. The foundation he helped design in those early days still scales with us today.

Pranav Kapoor

Co-Founder, Mosler

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