How much it cost to build an MVP

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Soviansovian.com

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The video provides high-value, transparent financial data that appeals to other founders and developers. By framing the content as a 'how-to' budget breakdown, the creator builds authority while naturally introducing his own product.

Summary

The creator breaks down the specific costs associated with building an MVP for his web app, Sovian. He lists various tools and services used, providing a transparent look at his development budget.

Structure

1Introduction to the cost of building an MVP
2Breakdown of domain and backend costs
3Breakdown of hosting, payments, and coding tool costs
4Breakdown of video storage and scraping costs
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Original caption

This is how much to cost to launch my SaaS Sovian. It’s an all in one UGC platform for agencies, brands and founders to create, manage and scale their UGC programs. Check it out and lmk what you think!

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Product placement

The creator's own SaaS, Sovian, is the subject of the video. He also mentions several third-party tools used to build it: Spaceship, Convex, Better-Auth, Railway, Stripe, Claude, bunny.net, and Apify.

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How much it cost to build an MVP domain = $14 db + backend = free auth = free hosting + deployments = $5 payments = 2.9% + 0.30 coding tools = $140 video storage, transcoding and CDN = $10 scraping = $30 (across 2 months) $189* *too late to reshoot - engagement bait I guess

Transcript

How much it cost to build an MVP, this is everything it cost to go from idea to MVP for my web app Sovian. First things first, I needed a domain and that cost me $14 from spaceship.com, but keep in mind this is an annual fee. Then for my backend and database, I'm using Convex and I'm still within their free tier. For authentication, I use Better-Auth and that's free. For hosting my deployments and running my CI/CD, I use Railway and that cost me $5. For payments, I'm using Stripe and they charge per transaction, I think it's 2.9% and 30 cents every transaction. For coding, I was originally using Claude's Pro plan, but then I eventually upgraded to the Max plan, so that went from $30 to $140 Canadian. Now Sovian requires me to be able to store and stream videos all over the world, so for that, I use a service called bunny.net. It costs you, I believe, a minimum of $1 a month, but I have like $10 of credits on there, but of course the cost will increase with usage and storage. Finally, I use Apify for scraping TikTok and Instagram posts. Now that cost me about $30 a month, but they do give you $5 worth of free credit on the free plan. So all in all, it cost me about $189, but you can definitely do this cheaper. This is just what works for me and it's within my budget. If you have any questions or recommendations, drop them in the comments down below.