RapidDev builds custom mobile and web apps in Atlanta, typically shipping a production MVP in 6–12 weeks for a fixed $13,000–$25,000. That is a fraction of the cost of hiring an in-house team in metro Atlanta (roughly $360,000–$400,000 a year for two engineers, fully loaded) or commissioning an Atlanta agency ($120,000–$400,000 per build). One team ships the iOS app, the Android app, and the web app on shared infrastructure, and the founder owns all of the code.
One team for your iOS, Android, and web build. We help Atlanta founders go from Figma or a Lovable prototype to a production app your users — and your investors — actually trust.
Atlanta is not a scaled-down version of Silicon Valley — it's a distinct ecosystem with real gravity of its own. Around 70% of every US debit, credit, and prepaid card transaction is processed here, in the corridor locals call 'Transaction Alley,' anchored by Global Payments, Fiserv, NCR, and Equifax. That payments density, plus the world's busiest airport and UPS's headquarters, makes Atlanta the natural home for fintech and logistics software. Georgia Tech feeds one of the strongest engineering talent pipelines in the country, and capital is growing fast: Atlanta startups raised roughly $756 million in 2025, up 23% year over year — more than Miami, Charlotte, and Nashville combined. Founders here are capital-efficient by necessity, so a fundable v1 has to prove real traction, not just look good in a deck. We build for that reality: the compliance and security that fintech and health-tech diligence demand, on a budget that respects how Atlanta money actually moves.
Roughly 70% of all US card transactions run through metro Atlanta, home to Global Payments, Fiserv, NCR, Elavon, InComm, and Equifax. If you're building fintech, you're building next to the people who invented the rails — and your users and partners expect payments and security done to that standard.
The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at Georgia Tech is the Southeast's oldest and largest startup accelerator, serving 150+ companies at a time and graduating its largest-ever cohort in 2025. Techstars Atlanta, with Cox Enterprises, writes $120K checks. Being in these programs puts you on a shipping clock we know how to build backward from.
Atlanta's engineering pipeline is deep, but you compete for it with Global Payments, NCR, Microsoft's Atlanta hub, and every Fortune 500 with a local office. Bringing us in lets you ship your v1 now and hire deliberately later, from a position of traction rather than a bidding war.
Atlanta founders raise less than coastal peers and are expected to do more with it — the ecosystem rewards revenue and traction over burn. A fixed-price build that ships a fundable product in weeks fits how Atlanta capital actually thinks about risk.
metro Atlanta by the numbers
Who we build for in metro Atlanta
Atlanta is 'Transaction Alley' — payments, lending, and neobanking apps that need Stripe, real compliance, and security tight enough to sit next to Global Payments and Fiserv.
Fed by the world's busiest airport and UPS's home turf — tracking, dispatch, and freight-visibility apps with real-time data and offline-tolerant mobile.
HIPAA-aware patient and provider apps for Atlanta's growing health-IT corridor around Emory, CHOA, and the CDC-adjacent research base.
Multi-tenant dashboards, admin panels, and role-based access for Atlanta's deep bench of enterprise and vertical-SaaS startups.
High-polish consumer apps for the film, music, and creator economy that made Atlanta the 'Hollywood of the South.'
Two-sided platforms with payments, matching, and ratings — the model built to leverage Atlanta's payments infrastructure natively.
RapidDev builds native and cross-platform mobile apps, Next.js web apps and dashboards, full MVP-to-scale product builds, and production AI features for Atlanta founders — mobile and web ship from one team on shared infrastructure.
No stitching together an app shop and a web agency. We scope and ship your iOS, Android, and web product on shared infrastructure — so everything actually works together.
One codebase, both stores. We build React Native and Expo apps that pass App Store and Play Store review the first time, with the native feel your users expect.
Fast, SEO-ready web apps on Next.js. From investor-facing marketing sites to the logged-in product itself — dashboards, admin panels, and customer portals.
The whole thing, mobile and web, on shared infrastructure. Ideal when you're moving off a Lovable or Bubble prototype that's hit its ceiling and need production code that raises well.
Ship the AI feature your product actually needs — chat, search, or agents — wired to your data with streaming, evals, and cost controls, not a demo that falls over.
You see a working, deployed build every single week. Here's the exact path from a first call to a launched app — five steps, no surprises.
We map your idea (or your stuck prototype) to a concrete feature list, a fixed price, and a timeline. You leave with a plan whether or not you hire us.
What you get
A fixed price + timeline
Clickable Figma flows and a technical architecture you sign off on before a line of production code is written. No surprises later.
What you get
Clickable Figma + signed-off architecture
You get a working, deployed build every single week — not a black box. Test on real devices, give feedback, watch it take shape.
What you get
A deployed build every week
We handle App Store and Play Store submission, production deploy, and a full handover — code, docs, and access are yours to keep.
What you get
Live app + all code and access
Keep us on a retainer for new features and fixes, or take the wheel with your own team. Your call — we don't lock you in.
What you get
A retainer — or a clean exit
Production-grade, boring-in-the-best-way tools that your future in-house team can hire for and maintain. No lock-in, no proprietary magic.
Building a custom app in Atlanta costs anywhere from $13,000 with RapidDev to over $400,000 with a large agency, depending on who builds it. Here is the honest math on the four realistic paths — with real 2025 Atlanta numbers, not a vendor's guesswork.
Hire a team in-house in Atlanta
true first-year cost of a minimal 2-engineer team
Atlanta / US agency
typical price for a comparable custom build
Offshore / freelance
typical Eastern Europe / LatAm blended rate
RapidDev
fixed price, quoted before we start
| Path | Typical cost | Time to first shipped product |
|---|---|---|
| Hire a team in-house in Atlanta | ~$360K – $400K / yr | 3–4 months just to hire, then build |
| Atlanta / US agency | $120K – $400K+ | 4–9 months |
| Offshore / freelance | $25 – $50 / hr | Highly variable — often 2–3x quoted |
| RapidDev | $13K – $25K | 6–12 weeks to a live, submitted app |
The numbers behind this, sourced
For the price of roughly two to three months of one Atlanta engineer's loaded salary, RapidDev ships your entire app — mobile, web, and backend — in 6 to 12 weeks.
App development in Atlanta with RapidDev costs a fixed $13,000–$25,000, quoted before any code is written rather than billed by the hour. A focused single-platform MVP starts at $13,000; a full mobile-plus-web product with payments and AI features runs up to $25,000.
You get a fixed price before we write a line of code — quoted, not billed by the hour. Every Atlanta build lands in the $13K–$25K range depending on scope.
Solo founders and pre-seed teams validating one core flow with real users.
Seed-stage startups shipping a fundable v1 to the App Store and the web.
Series A teams replacing a no-code MVP or adding serious AI features.
A few of the builds we've shipped for Atlanta founders. Details generalized to protect client confidentiality.
Challenge: An Atlanta founder had a Lovable prototype for a merchant-payouts app but couldn't pass the security review to onboard their first Transaction-Alley partner.
What we shipped: We rebuilt the backend on Supabase with real RLS, moved payouts to Stripe Connect, and shipped native iOS + Android — clearing the partner's security checklist.
Challenge: A freight-visibility team's driver app worked in a demo but dropped data whenever a truck lost signal on a long haul out of Atlanta.
What we shipped: We built an offline-first mobile app with a queued-sync layer and a real-time dispatch dashboard, so tracking held up across dead zones and reconciled on reconnect.
Challenge: A team near Emory had outgrown a Bubble MVP — every new feature broke two others and their HIPAA reviewer wouldn't sign off on the data model.
What we shipped: We migrated their data into a proper Postgres schema with audit logging and role-based access, rebuilt the product on Next.js, and cleared their compliance review.
190+ people across 17 countries, a 4.9 rating on Clutch, and 600+ apps shipped. Here's the leadership standing behind your build.
CEO & Founder
Founder of RapidDev, a global software firm whose team has delivered 1,000+ client projects. He helps founders cut through the hype and ship practical, production-grade software — fast.
Columbia University · Harvard Business School · U.S. Navy veteran · 1,000+ client projects
Matt on LinkedInCOO
Runs operations across RapidDev's 190+ person, 17-country team — the person making sure your build ships on time and on scope.
CTO
Owns the technical bar for every build: the architecture, code quality, and security review that has to survive investor diligence.
Dev Lead
Leads the engineers who ship your weekly builds across iOS, Android, and web on shared infrastructure.
Both — that's the whole point of working with us instead of stitching two vendors together. We build your mobile app (iOS and Android from one React Native codebase) and your web app on shared infrastructure, so your data, auth, and payments live in one place instead of three.
Yes, and it's one of the most common reasons Atlanta founders come to us. No-code prototypes are great for validation but hit a ceiling on security, scale, and hiring. We migrate your data into a real database and rebuild the product in production-grade code you own — usually without losing any of your existing data.
Most builds land between $13,000 and $25,000, quoted as a fixed price before we start — not billed by the hour. After a free 45-minute scope call we send a concrete feature list, price, and timeline. The band depends on scope: a focused single-platform MVP sits near the bottom, a full mobile + web product with payments and AI features toward the top.
Typically 6–12 weeks from kickoff to a live, submitted app. A focused MVP can ship in 4–6 weeks; a full mobile + web product with AI features runs closer to 9–12. You get a working, deployed build every week, so you're never waiting months to see progress.
Yes — it's one of our sharpest specialties, and it matters here more than almost anywhere. Atlanta processes roughly 70% of US card transactions, so your partners and users expect payments and security done properly. We build on Stripe with proper webhook verification, real row-level security in the database, and an architecture that survives the kind of security review a Transaction-Alley partner will run before they integrate with you.
No — we work with Atlanta founders remotely and asynchronously, which is how most teams operate anyway. You'll have a dedicated point of contact, weekly demos, and a shared board. If you prefer a video kickoff or working sessions, we're happy to schedule around your timezone.
You do — completely. The code lives in your GitHub, the App Store and Play Store listings are under your accounts, and we hand over full documentation at launch. We never hold your product hostage, and you're free to bring the work in-house or hire your own team whenever you want.
That's a big part of what we do for seed and Series A teams here. Atlanta capital rewards traction, so we prioritize the flows that prove real usage, ship App-Store-quality polish, and make sure the architecture holds up to technical diligence. Many of our Atlanta clients raise on the version we ship.
Absolutely — most of the founders we work with are non-technical or first-time technical founders. We handle every technical decision, explain trade-offs in plain English, and give you a product you can maintain or hand to a future CTO. You focus on customers and fundraising; we handle the build.
It comes down to structure, not corners cut. We scope a fixed set of features up front, so there is no open-ended hourly meter. A small, senior-only team does the work directly — you are not paying for account managers, sales overhead, or junior engineers learning on your budget. And we reuse hardened production patterns for auth, payments, and infrastructure instead of rebuilding them from scratch each time. An in-house Atlanta team carries roughly $360,000–$400,000 in fully-loaded first-year cost for just two engineers, plus months of ramp-up before anything ships; an agency layers overhead on top of the build. We simply do not carry those costs.
Every build includes a 30-day bug-fix window after launch — if something we shipped breaks, we fix it at no extra cost. Beyond that, you can keep us on an optional monthly support retainer for ongoing fixes and new features, or take the code in-house and maintain it yourself. You own the code either way, so you are never locked in.
Small adjustments within the agreed scope are just part of the weekly sprint — you review a working build every week and give feedback we fold in. If you want to add or swap something bigger that changes the scope, we handle it with a simple change order: we tell you the price and timeline impact before doing the work, you approve it, and only then do we build it. No surprise invoices, and no silent scope creep.
Grab a 45-minute slot with our team below. We'll map your idea — or your stuck Atlanta prototype — to a concrete feature list, a fixed $13K–$25K price, and a timeline. You walk away with a real plan either way.
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