App development for US and European startups
Drifted builds apps for US and European startups from a studio in Karachi that keeps New York hours, so questions are answered inside your working day. We scope the build to how the app earns before anything is designed, put the code and every account in your name from the first day, and ship the brand and the launch with it if you want them.
In detail
What should a US startup expect from an offshore app development company?
The same things it would demand of a studio down the street, written into the contract: a reply inside your working day, the repository and hosting in your name, a fixed scope with a fixed fee, and documentation good enough that another team could take over. Offshore changes the price of senior time and the hours on the clock. It must not change ownership or responsiveness. If either is vague in the proposal, it will be worse in the build.
Builds on the record
For a US auction house that sells militaria, every sale meant 1,250 lots typed by hand before anything could go live. We built a hosted platform that reads the photographs, drafts each listing from a 32,000-item reference set and fills the upload template, flagging only the uncertain lots for a person to check. It went live for the auction of 16 August and has taken 400+ hours off the client's desk.
For ehsaan, a thrift marketplace in Pakistan, the first build was followed by a 19-section knowledge base that holds every rule the product follows. The brand and the launch were made alongside it, in one contract.
How a build runs across the time difference
A scoping call in your day
Thirty minutes, no deck. You bring the problem, the audience and the number the app must produce; we say whether a build is the right answer at all.
The rules before the screens
What the app must never do, who pays whom, what happens when something fails. Written as a knowledge base that you own.
A first working version, fast
Built with AI tooling against that knowledge base and in your hands within weeks, then rebuilt where it needs to last.
Weekly reviews on US time
A call at a fixed hour in your day, a written note after it, and the build deployed where you can use it rather than a screen recording.
Handover in your name
Repository, hosting, domains, model keys and design files. Thirty days' notice ends the engagement, and you keep everything.
Why would a US or European startup hire a studio in Pakistan?
For senior time at a price an early company can carry, and for one team that builds the product, the brand and the launch instead of three vendors briefing each other. The honest trade is distance: you will rarely meet in person, and a studio that hides behind the time difference is a bad hire anywhere. We keep New York hours for that reason, and our US clients include a museum in Pennsylvania and an auction house that runs live sales.
Questions to ask any studio before you sign
- Is the repository in my name today, or only at handover?
- Who on your side writes the code, and will they be on my calls?
- What does the first version cost, separately from the full build?
- What happens to my product if we stop working together?
- Can I see a live build, with the client named or described?
Working from the US, the Netherlands or Pakistan
A founder in New York shares our working day. A founder in California starts three hours later and still gets the whole afternoon. A founder in the Netherlands or elsewhere in Europe is about six hours ahead of New York, so the weekly review sits in your late afternoon and written notes are waiting each morning.
Our clients already include a museum in Pennsylvania, an auction house in the United States and a militaria shop in the Netherlands. A founder in Pakistan gets the same contract and the same handover, with the studio a drive away in Karachi.
The questions that follow.
What hours do you work?
New York hours. A message sent from the US East Coast during the working day is answered the same day.
Do you build native iOS and Android apps?
When the product needs them. Most startups should launch as a web app that works on any phone and add native apps once the product has earned them.
Who owns the code?
You do, from the first commit. The repository and every account are created in your name, not transferred at the end.
How is a build priced?
Under the Tailored tier, against the number the app must produce, with the fee agreed before work starts. Hosting, model costs and app-store fees run through your own accounts.
Can you run the marketing after launch?
Yes. Ads, content and search are the rest of what we do, at the fees published on the pricing page.
The price is published.
Where this leads.
No deck. No discovery theatre. One metric, one date, in the contract.