Product Development Services

Product development services take a software product from idea to launch and beyond: discovery, design, engineering, testing, release, and ongoing improvement. SoluLab provides end-to-end product development services for startups and enterprises building web, mobile, SaaS, AI, and blockchain products, with an MVP scope and fixed-price estimate.

  • Know the cost before you build
  • Spend only on features users want
  • One team from idea to scale
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What Are Product Development Services?

Product development services are outsourced design and engineering work that turns a product idea into a launched, maintained product. For software, that covers research, UX design, architecture, coding, testing, deployment, and iteration. Product development builds something customers use repeatedly, while service development designs how a service is delivered to them.

This page covers digital and software products: web and mobile apps, SaaS platforms, and AI and blockchain products. Physical products need an industrial design firm.

The highest cost in product development is building the wrong thing. Pendo's Feature Adoption Report found that 80% of features in the average software product are rarely or never used ( Pendo, 2019 ). Good product development services spend the first weeks deciding what not to build.

What Do Our Product Development Services Include?

SoluLab's product development services cover eight areas: product discovery and consulting, digital product design, MVP development, custom software products, SaaS products, product engineering and modernization, AI and generative AI products, and IoT products. You can engage us for one stage, such as design or modernization, or for the full product lifecycle.

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Product Discovery and Consulting

Our product development consulting services start with your users, your market, and the riskiest assumption, then turn them into a priced roadmap. You leave discovery knowing what to build first and what to leave out.

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Digital Product Design

Our digital product design and development services cover user research, clickable prototypes, and design systems that engineers build from directly. Designers and engineers sit in one team, so nothing gets lost in handover.

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MVP Development

For new ideas, our MVP development for startups puts a working product in front of real users within weeks. It is where our software product development services for startups begin, so you test demand before funding the full roadmap.

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Custom Software Product Development

Our custom software product development services build web and mobile products around your workflows, data, and customers. Every product ships with documentation and code you own from the first commit.

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SaaS Product Development

We build multi-tenant SaaS products with subscription billing, single sign-on, and analytics designed into the first release. Each product is ready for its first enterprise customer's security review.

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Product Engineering and Modernization

Our product engineering and development services rebuild ageing products on modern architecture in stages, so existing customers keep working throughout. The same team handles performance, security, and scaling work on products already live.

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AI and Generative AI Product Development

Our AI development team adds generative AI features, assistants, and agents to new and existing products. Each feature is tested for accuracy and running cost before launch.

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IoT Product Development

Connected device products, from device integrations to companion apps and monitoring dashboards, are built by our IoT development team. Data moves securely from device to dashboard, with alerts your operations team can act on.

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Turn Your Product Idea Into a Priced Plan

Tell us what you want to build and who it's for. Within 48 hours, you'll have an MVP scope, a timeline, and a fixed price.

How Does Our End-to-End Product Development Process Work?

SoluLab's end-to-end product development process runs in six stages: discovery, design, build, test, launch, and grow. You get a written scope and fixed price within 48 hours and working software every two weeks. After launch, usage data feeds the next round of discovery, so the product keeps improving.

End-to-end product development process
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Discover

2 to 4 weeks

Users, market, the riskiest assumption, architecture, and a priced roadmap.

02

Design

A clickable prototype tested with real users, plus a design system engineers build from.

03

Build

Two-week sprints, each ending with a demo on a staging link you can open.

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Test

Automated tests, a security review, and load testing before every major release.

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Launch

Production release with monitoring, and app store submission for mobile products.

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Grow

Analytics on real usage, iteration sprints, and scaling as customers arrive.

How Is Generative AI Used in Product Development?

Generative AI speeds up product development in two ways. Inside the process, it drafts requirements, code, tests, and documentation for engineers to review. Inside the product, it powers features such as assistants, smart search, and document processing. SoluLab uses both, and a named engineer reviews every AI-generated change before it ships.

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Faster discovery

AI summarizes user interviews and support tickets into themes for the product team to test.

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Faster builds

AI drafts boilerplate and tests, so engineers spend more time on the parts that set your product apart.

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Smarter products

Generative AI product development adds assistants and automation that users notice.

What Tech Stack Do We Use for Product Development?

SoluLab builds products on widely used, well-supported technology, so your in-house team can take over without a rewrite. That means React or Next.js on the web, Swift, Kotlin, or React Native on mobile, Node.js, Python, .NET, or Java on the backend, and AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud for hosting.

Web front end

React React
Next.js Next.js
Angular Angular
Vue.js Vue.js

Mobile

Swift Swift
Kotlin Kotlin
React Native React Native

Back end

Node.js Node.js
Python Python (Django, FastAPI)
.NET .NET
Java Java (Spring Boot)

Data

PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
MySQL MySQL
MongoDB MongoDB
Redis Redis

AI

Python Python
TensorFlow TensorFlow
OpenAI APIs OpenAI APIs
LangGraph LangGraph

Blockchain

Solidity Solidity
Ethereum Ethereum
Hyperledger Fabric Hyperledger Fabric

Cloud and DevOps

AWS AWS
Azure Azure
Google Cloud Google Cloud
Docker Docker
Kubernetes Kubernetes
Terraform Terraform
GitHub Actions GitHub Actions

Billing, identity, and monitoring

Stripe Stripe
Auth0 Auth0
Keycloak Keycloak
Datadog Datadog
Sentry Sentry

How Much Do Product Development Services Cost, and How Long Do They Take?

Product development services at SoluLab cost from $10,000 for a discovery sprint to $500,000 or more for an enterprise platform. A focused MVP takes 8 to 16 weeks and costs $25,000 to $50,000, and a mid-complexity product takes 4 to 6 months at $50,000 to $150,000. The 48-hour scope gives one fixed price.

What you need Timeline Cost
Discovery sprint 2 to 4 weeks $10,000 to $25,000
Micro product, one core workflow 4 to 8 weeks $10,000 to $25,000
Mid-complexity product 4 to 6 months $50,000 to $150,000
Enterprise platform 6 to 12 months $150,000 to $500,000+
Modernization of an existing product 3 to 9 months From $25,000
Team extension on your product Start in 1 day to 2 weeks $25 to $49 an hour

Figures are SoluLab's published ranges for SaaS and custom products. AI and blockchain products are priced separately because model and smart contract work changes the scope.

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Which Industries Do We Build Products For?

SoluLab builds digital products for fintech, healthcare, insurance, logistics, education, retail, real estate, and enterprise operations. Industry experience shortens discovery, because the team already knows the regulations, data rules, and systems a product must connect to, from banking APIs to health records and warehouse software.

Case Studies: Products We've Built

SoluLab's product development work spans a digital lending platform built within budget and on schedule, an algorithmic trading MVP launched in three months, and a blockchain framework that gives patients control of their medical records. Each started with a business problem and shipped as a product used by real customers.

Instant Loans App for Small Businesses
Fintech

Instant Loans App for Small Businesses

A fintech startup wanted to replace slow, manual small-business lending with a fully digital process. An eight-person SoluLab team built the iOS app, admin module, and back office, with automated KYC through Experian, DocuSign agreements, and an AI credit scoring model.

  • Ready for App Store launch
  • AI credit scoring module
Read the instant loans case study
Algorithmic Intraday Trading System
Trading & SaaS

Algorithmic Intraday Trading System

A wealth management firm with a 20-year-old trading strategy needed a product its clients could use themselves. A seven-person team built a SaaS web app where clients connect a brokerage account, set risk and leverage, and let the system trade automatically.

  • MVP built and launched in three months
  • Live for NYSE and NASDAQ trading
Read the trading system case study
Blockchain Framework for Electronic Medical Records
Healthcare & Blockchain

Blockchain Framework for Electronic Medical Records

Patients rarely control who sees their health records, and records move poorly between providers. SoluLab built a blockchain-based platform where patients grant and revoke time-limited access, and record updates are shared across the network in real time.

  • Patient-controlled, portable records
  • Clinical health data exchange and interoperability
Read the blockchain EMR case study

How Can You Engage Our Product Development Team?

You can engage SoluLab's outsourced product development services in four ways: a fixed-fee discovery sprint, a fixed-scope project paid per milestone, a dedicated team billed monthly, or team extension billed by the hour. Most clients start with discovery or an MVP, then move to a dedicated team as the product grows.

Why Choose SoluLab as Your Product Development Services Company?

Companies choose SoluLab for product development because one team covers discovery, design, engineering, and launch, prices are published and fixed after scoping, and AI and blockchain specialists are in-house. You own the code from the first commit, see working software every two weeks, and can scale the team monthly.

Published price ranges

Published price ranges

Check our estimate against the ranges listed openly on our site.

Discovery before code

Discovery before code

We cut features users won't use before they reach your budget.

Working software every two weeks

Working software every two weeks

Demos on a staging link you can open, not status reports.

Your IP from the first commit

Your IP from the first commit

An NDA and a services agreement assign all code to you.

AI and blockchain in-house

AI and blockchain in-house

No second vendor when your product needs a model or a smart contract.

Flexible engagement

Flexible engagement

Move from a fixed-scope MVP to a dedicated team without changing partners.

Meet Your Architect

Chintan Thakkar

"Chintan leads SoluLab's product engineering teams across AI, blockchain, IoT, and enterprise software, after about a decade at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Vice President."

Chintan Thakkar · Co-Founder & CEO, SoluLab · View full profile

What Our Clients Have to Say About Us

SoluLab helped us turn our vision for secure, file-less document management into a practical platform. Their understanding of blockchain technology and focus on building a reliable, user-friendly solution made the development process much easier. We now have a stronger foundation for issuing and verifying documents while reducing the risks associated with traditional files.

Working with the SoluLab team completely changed how we handle marketing. CyberHulk turned from a simple idea into a powerful AI-driven marketing platform that runs our entire process. Everything works smoothly, and it feels like having a 24/7 AI marketing team that constantly drives growth, improves conversions, and saves time.

The team took the time to understand our goals instead of simply executing tasks. They built the core product, integrated third-party tools and APIs, and helped improve the user experience.

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Product and service development is the process of creating new offerings, or improving existing ones, from idea to launch. Product development produces something customers use, such as an app. Service development designs how a service is delivered, such as onboarding or support. Many software businesses need both.

Service product development means designing a service so it can be sold and delivered consistently, often with software at its core. A subscription platform, for example, is a service product: customers pay for ongoing access and support rather than owning a one-time item.

Start with the customer problem, then test the riskiest assumption cheaply, often with a prototype or MVP. Build in short cycles, measure how people use what you release, and decide the next step from data. Software products follow discovery, design, build, test, launch, and grow.

Software products usually cost more upfront, because design and engineering happen before the first sale. Services cost less to start but more to scale, because each customer needs people's time. A SaaS product combines both: high build cost, then low cost for each extra customer.

Look for a partner that offers a short discovery phase, a fixed-price MVP, and demos every one to two weeks. Check case studies that name the timeline, such as SoluLab's trading platform MVP launched in three months, and read verified reviews on Clutch or GoodFirms.

Reliable partners show named case studies, publish their price ranges, let you interview the team, and assign code ownership to you in the contract. Verified reviews on Clutch or GoodFirms help confirm delivery quality. SoluLab is rated 4.9 on Clutch from 55 reviews.

The SaaS product development process covers discovery, choosing a tenancy model, design, building core workflows with billing and sign-in, testing, launch, and continuous iteration. SaaS products ship updates to every customer at once, so automated testing and zero-downtime releases matter from the first version.

Outsourced product development services hand some or all of the design and engineering work to an external partner. You keep ownership of the product and its direction, while the partner supplies the team. Models range from a fixed-scope project to a dedicated team or engineers added to yours.

Product development covers the whole journey, from deciding what to build to launching and growing it. Product engineering services focus on the technical side: architecture, code, testing, performance, and modernization. Many partners, including SoluLab, offer both as end-to-end product development services.

You do. Every engagement starts with an NDA and a services agreement that assigns all code and work product to you from the first commit. Work happens in your repositories and cloud accounts, or in access-controlled SoluLab environments if you prefer.