MVP vs. Full-Scale App: How Smart Scoping Saves Startups Thousands
Bitcot's a mobile app dev shop out of San Diego. They've been at this a while, around 200 engineers on the team now, something like 3,000 projects behind them, working with everyone from brand-new startups to companies like IBM and Sony.
What's actually different about how they build: they don't treat the MVP stage as a throwaway first draft. They build it with feature flags baked in from day one, so when a client wants to add more later, nobody's tearing the whole thing apart to make room. Testing runs automatically through CI/CD instead of getting bolted on at the end, and for most builds they use Flutter so iOS and Android share one codebase instead of two separate ones eating up double the time.