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What changed, and why
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- The week-one bet — A working prototype, or you pay $0
- How we work — Six-week cycles, a demo every week
- What we build — Web, mobile, backend, AI
- Ways to hire us — A fixed build or a monthly crew
- Book a 30-minute call — No slides, no sales pitch
Why Navio Labs exists
Shape the idea, build the product, and ship it for real with Navio Labs.
Small on purpose and senior all the way down. You see a working prototype in one week — or you don’t pay for it.
Hey there—
Tell me if this sounds about right.
You’ve got an idea that won’t leave you alone. A new product. The internal tool your team keeps duct-taping together. The app your customers keep asking for. Whatever it is, it needs to get built — and built well.
So you go looking for help. You find agencies with account managers, project managers, and “solutions architects” who haven’t shipped anything in years. You get a slide deck, a six-month estimate, and a team of juniors you never met on the sales call. Software made that way rarely ships. And software that doesn’t ship doesn’t matter.
We’ve sat on both sides of that table. We wanted a studio that was small on purpose, senior all the way through, and honest about time and money. Nothing quite fit. So we built Navio Labs.
Here’s the deal: the people you talk to on day one are the people writing your code. You see working software every single week, not status reports. And when we’re done, you own every line — the repo, the infrastructure, the docs, all of it.
We’re so sure of this that the first week is a bet on us. If what we build doesn’t clear the bar you set, you keep it and pay nothing.
It always seems impossible until it’s done. That’s the part we love.
Thanks for stopping by. If this sounds like what you’ve been looking for, tell us what you’re building. We’d be honored to build it with you.
Founder & engineer
Sound familiar?
The people who hire us usually say yes to at least three of these.
- You’ve already tried the cheap option.It cost more in the end. Now you want it done right the first time.
- You want to see it before you sign.Not a deck. Not a Gantt chart. A working thing on your phone.
- You want to know the bill up front.Your finance team shouldn’t need a spreadsheet to guess the final invoice.
- You care about the day after launch.Your own team has to run this thing. It has to make sense to them.
- You insist on a human who’s accountable.One name, one inbox, one person who can also fix the bug.
- You want AI that actually gets used.Inside the tools your team already lives in. No new app to learn.
Projects that never ship are the most expensive kind. Let’s not do that.
Four building blocks. Most projects combine two or three.
We don’t do everything. We do the parts of software that decide whether a product works — and we do them end to end.
Web apps
React and Next.js interfaces that feel instant and stay easy to change a year from now.
Mobile apps
React Native apps for iOS and Android. One codebase, both stores, no compromises you can feel.
Backends & APIs
Rails, Node and Postgres on AWS or GCP. Boring, reliable plumbing that holds up when you grow.
AI that earns its keep
LLMs wired into the tools your team already uses — measured, not hyped, with the token bill known before go-live.
We asked our clients: “What changed once Navio came on board?”
“We finally saw working software every Friday. No more wondering what we were paying for. When something slipped, we heard it early, with a plan attached.”
“The engineer on our first call was the engineer who built the app. Abhay knew when to move fast and when to build for the long term.”
“When they handed it over, our own team could run it the next morning. The docs actually made sense.”
THE WEEK-ONE BET
A working prototype is the best kind of proposal.
Skip the months of discovery. Give us one week and your hardest problem.
- 01
Pick the problem, set the bar
Bring the riskiest part of your idea. You decide what “good enough to keep going” means before we start.
- 02
We build it in one week
A fixed-scope prototype on your real data, demoed live on Friday. Not a mockup — something you can tap.
- 03
You decide on the result
Look at what we built, not what we promised. No endless review rounds, no fine print.
We roll straight into the six-week build.
You keep the prototype. You pay $0.
Either way, you walk away with working software.
- [N] products shipped
- [N] prototypes → production
- [N] users on apps we built
- 0 account managers
- 100% of the code is yours
- 1 business day to reply
Three ways to work with us. All of them honest.
Prices up front. No hourly meter quietly running in the background.
The Check-up
One week · fixed price
An honest look at your codebase, architecture and roadmap. You get a written report with what to fix, what to leave alone, and what to build next.
Book a check-upThe Six-Week Build
Six weeks · fixed scope, fixed price
A real product, live in front of real users. Web, mobile or both. Week one is free if the prototype misses your bar.
Start with the betThe Monthly Crew
Month to month · cancel anytime
Senior engineers who join your team, ship alongside you, and keep the product moving. Leave whenever you like — we’ll make it easy.
Talk about a crewWant to talk it through and ask some questions first?
Grab 30 minutes with the founder. No slides, no sales pitch. Just your problem, a whiteboard, and a straight answer about whether we’re the right people for it.
- OCT20Office hours
Tuesday, 9 AM – 7 PM IST - OCT22Office hours
Thursday, 9 AM – 7 PM IST - OCT27AI in your product: a Q&A
Tuesday, 9 AM – 7 PM IST - OCT29Office hours
Thursday, 9 AM – 7 PM IST
None of these work? Email Abhay and we’ll find a time.
Blogs. Free, and written by the people doing the work.
Upgrade guides and honest opinions on Rails and React. If one of these saves you a week, imagine what we could do together.
- RAILS 8What’s new in Rails 8: the release that fires your PaaSSolid Queue, Solid Cache, Solid Cable, Kamal 2 and the new auth generator — what each one replaces.7 min read
- MIGRATION GUIDEUpgrading from Rails 7.2 to 8.0, step by stepThe checklist we actually use: deprecations, config diffs, gems that break, and how to ship it in small PRs.7 min read
- RAILS 8.1Rails 8.1: what changed, and should you upgrade yet?The features worth having, the ones you can ignore, and a short path from 8.0.5 min read
- MIGRATION GUIDEFrom Sidekiq and Redis to Solid QueueHow to move background jobs onto your database without losing a single job on the way.7 min read
- RAILS 8Deploying Rails 8 with Kamal 2 on a single serverFrom a fresh VPS to HTTPS and zero-downtime deploys in an afternoon.7 min read
- RAILS 8The Rails 8 auth generator vs DeviseWhen the built-in generator is enough, when it isn’t, and how to switch an existing app.6 min read
- MIGRATION GUIDEUpgrading to React 19 without breaking productionThe breaking changes that actually bite, the codemods that help, and the order we upgrade things in.6 min read
- REACTReact Compiler in production: you can stop writing useMemoWhat it optimizes for you, what it can’t, and how to roll it out one folder at a time.6 min read
- RAILS + REACTRails and React in 2026: Hotwire, Inertia, or a separate frontend?How we pick for each project, with the trade-offs nobody puts on the slide.6 min read
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Tell us what you’re building. You’ll hear back from a human — usually the founder — within one business day.
Start with the week-one betThe cost of not starting is another quarter of “we should really build that.” This week costs nothing if it misses.