An MVP is not a cheap version of the product. It is the smallest thing that answers the question you are actually unsure about - will people use this, will they pay, does the workflow survive contact with real users.
That framing changes what gets built. If the risky assumption is demand, the MVP might be one screen and a payment link. If the risky assumption is whether the workflow is even possible, the MVP is the workflow with no billing at all.
A web application starts at A$1,500 and typically runs six to twelve weeks depending on scope. Projects over A$10,000 are milestone-based, so you are never paying far ahead of what has been delivered.
The common failure is an MVP that proves the idea and then has to be rebuilt because it was built as a demo. We use the same stack for an MVP as for a production build - React or Next.js on the front, a real database and real authentication - so a yes means carrying on rather than starting over.
Six to twelve weeks is typical for a web application. A genuinely narrow MVP - one role, one workflow, no integrations - can be shorter.
Yes, entirely, including if you take it to another team afterwards.
Then it did its job at the smallest possible cost, which is the entire point of building one rather than the full product.
Tell us what you are trying to do. If something off the shelf already does it, or the job is smaller than you think, we will say so.
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