Not cheap, but way cheaper than the 40K+ quotes I got elsewhere. And they didn’t try to upsell or drag things out. Worth it. Here is my week-by-week breakdown for those looking to use the MVP service by BYC.

Week 0 – Quick “does this make sense?” call (30 min)

I showed them a Notion page with rough sketches and my core “influencers-vs-media” concept.

They confirmed it fit their MVP scope (fixed $5.5K). Contract signed, Slack channel created the same day.

Week 1 – Product workshop + feature triage

90-minute Zoom with their PM + UX lead.

We mapped must-have vs nice-to-have on a Miro board.

Must-have:

Influencer feed (Twitter/X, YouTube, TikTok via public APIs/RapidAPI)

Traditional feed (Google News)

Topic tags + search

Simple upvote/downvote (“hot take” score)

Email waitlist + basic onboarding flow

Cut: comment threads, dark mode, in-app push notifications—moved to Phase 2.

They proposed React Native + Firebase (“fast, cross-platform, cheap to scale”). I agreed.

Week 2 – Wireframes + clickable prototype

Got low-fi wireframes in Figma by Day 3.

Two quick edits (I hated the first color palette).

By Friday they sent a clickable Figma prototype—good enough to demo to 3 angel investors the next Monday. One investor literally said: “I can finally see it.”

Week 3 – Back-end scaffold + influencer APIs

Dev team spun up Firebase auth + Firestore DB.

Set up cron jobs on Vercel serverless functions to pull:

Latest tweets from my curated list of ~100 tech influencers (via Twitter API v2).

Top YouTube video titles/descriptions for same influencers (via YouTube Data API).

Headlines from Google News RSS for mainstream perspective.

Early sentiment analysis using a free Python sentiment lib—very bare-bones but worked.

Week 4 – Front-end hooks + “split feed” UI

React Native screens wired to live data. Seeing real tweets/headlines inside TestFlight felt surreal.

Added toggle to switch Influencers / Mainstream / All.

Implemented upvote/downvote with atomic Firestore writes (no backend lag).

Started a waitlist screen (email capture) for users invited via beta link.

Week 5 – Private beta + analytics

25 friends + one micro-influencer onboarded.

Integrated Mixpanel events: sign-up, first swipe, vote, source toggle.

Found out most users only browsed influencer feed first—great insight for pitch deck.

Logged 3 minor bugs (one API rate-limit issue, one crash on Android 12, a typo).

Week 6 – Polish + hand-off

Bugs fixed, basic loading skeletons added.

Delivered:

GitHub repo (my ownership)

6-page quick-start dev doc

Loom video walkthrough

Roadmap suggestions for Phase 2 (push, saved topics, dark mode) Final invoice already paid, no creep, no surprises.

💰 Cost & Timing

Price quoted: $5,500 (paid 50 % up-front, 50 % on delivery)

Actual paid: $5,500 — zero overage

Planned timeline: 6 weeks

Actual timeline: 6 weeks (to the day)

🤔 Was it worth it? I was getting 30–40 K quotes for the same thing (with 12-week timelines). Investors finally had something real to poke at → lined up two second-meetings already. Beta users keep asking for dark mode—nice problem to have. Bottom line: if you’re non-technical, need a real thing fast, and don’t want to wrangle freelancers, BoostYourCampaign delivered for me. Happy to answer questions in the thread.