Foundco

Know what your app idea costs — and the team it needs

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Know what your app idea costs — and the team it needs

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Foundco returns an honest build estimate in ~40 seconds — the team you'd need, the timeline, and a real price range at 2026 Indian freelance rates. Every slip shows the fine print most quotes hide: what's deliberately cut from the MVP, what the price assumes, and what would raise it. Always a range, never one number. Free, no signup.

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Every founder I meet has the same first question — "what would this actually cost to build?" — and every answer they get is either a sales pitch or a guess. Agencies quote high and vague; freelancers quote low and optimistic; neither tells you what they left out. So I built the answer as a free tool. Describe your idea in plain English and Foundco writes a quotation slip the way a good contractor would: the exact team composition you'd need, a timeline, and an honest price range at current Indian freelance rates — assuming AI-augmented delivery, which is why the numbers run below traditional agency quotes. The part I'm most proud of is the fine print. Every estimate shows what's deliberately cut from the MVP (and what each cut costs to add later), what the price assumes (and what happens if the assumption is wrong), and the known ways the price rises — quantified. That's the part real quotes always hide, and it's the part founders actually need.

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Hi founder here.

Foundco gives you an honest build estimate for your app idea: the team you'd need, a timeline, and a real price range at 2026 Indian freelance rates plus the fine print most quotes hide (what's cut from the MVP, what the price assumes, what would raise it).

The estimates are tuned conservative on purpose, and they're calibrated against a test suite but real ideas from real founders are the benchmark that matters. So this thread is for exactly that:

1. Run your idea through it https://estimator-in.netlify.app
2. Post here: your idea (one line), the range it gave you, and whether that feels high, low, or about right especially if you've actually hired developers before.

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