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Ask HN: What do founders want from a one person dev studio?

1•Punyakrit•1h ago
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”.

Comments

Punyakrit•1h ago
Happy to share more details about how I structure builds, timelines, or pricing if useful. Still figuring out the best model.

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