How much should an MVP actually cost?

<p>I wanted to validate a startup idea before writing code. So I tested every free AI startup idea validator I could find in 2026 — same idea across all of them.</p>

<h3> The Core Purpose of a SaaS MVP: Validating Market Demand </h3> <p>The most common failure mode for first-time SaaS founders isn't technical inability—it is building too much

<p>After a year of shipping MVPs, I've learned one thing: <strong>the biggest enemy isn't bad ideas — it's overbuilding before you have a single real user.</strong></p> <p>Here's

<p>Every browser agent does the same expensive thing: dump the entire DOM into an LLM, ask "what should I click?", and repeat for every step. A 10-step workflow costs ~$4 in LLM

<p>Let's be real: the current AI coding workflow is tedious. </p> <p>You hit a bug. You copy your code. You tab out to ChatGPT/Claude. You paste it. You copy the fix. You paste it

<p>You opened ChatGPT before Slack this morning.<br /><br /> Not for anything complicated. Just to figure out how to begin.</p> <p>That small move is already changing what

<p>Nearly 20 years of design experience, now running a solo AI creative studio from Berlin<br /> The product stack: 6 digital products, 116 merch items, 98 blog articles, all one

<p>Anyone estimating custom API development cost from the number of endpoints is going to be wrong, usually by a factor of three. Endpoints are the cheapest part. A dozen of them,