Build with Kat
Last 2 spots · May 2026

Your idea.
Built in 3 weeks.

A real, finished web or iPhone app for stay-at-home mums, creators, and female founders. No $30K agency. No freelancer who disappears at 60% done. No teaching yourself to code at 11pm.

App development — by a woman, for women.

No pitch deck required · 15 minutes · Zero obligation

“She just gets it. We talked, she built, I have a real product.”
Annabel K., Founder
Kat — engineer, founder, and content creator behind Build with Kat

Hi, I'm Kat.

Engineer, founder, and creator. Your developer for the next three weeks.

  • Fixed price · No surprise bills
  • The code is 100% yours
  • 14 days of free help after launch
  • Nothing to pay until we agree the plan

The problem

You've had the idea for months.

Sketches on a napkin. A spreadsheet doing the job an app should be doing. A folder of DMs asking when it'll launch. You don't need a co-founder. You just need someone to actually build the thing.

Hire a freelancer who ghosts

A great first call. A solid quote. Then silence at 60% done — and your deposit gone with them.

Get quoted $30K by an agency

Just to build the first version of an idea you haven't even tested yet. The kind that might change after your first hundred users anyway.

Code it yourself between school runs

Three tutorials, four crashes, still no app. Your evenings are worth more than that.

How it works

Three steps. No surprises.

  1. 01

    Tell me your idea

    Book a free 15-minute call. No pitch deck, no tech jargon. Just tell me what you want to build and who it's for.

  2. 02

    I scope and price it

    Within 48 hours, you get a fixed price and a simple one-page plan. If it's too big for three weeks, I'll say so — and we'll split it into a launch and a v2.

  3. 03

    I build and ship

    Three weeks of focused work. You get a private link to watch it come together, and updates every few days so nothing feels like a mystery. Day 21, you're live.

What you can build

Whatever you'd sell to your audience tomorrow.

A paid community

A members-only chat, weekly live sessions, resources just for them.

For creators tired of giving it all away on Substack and Instagram.

A course or cohort

Lessons, payments, progress tracking — all on your own website.

For coaches, ex-bankers, and teachers running a 4-week programme.

A small SaaS

One painful problem, solved well, billed monthly. You own the product and the recurring revenue.

For ex-operators who keep saying “I wish this existed” and want to ship it.

A small tool for mums

A focused little app your community will open daily.

Cycle tracker, sleep log, mum planner, postpartum companion — your idea.

What you actually get

A real product — not a prototype.

Live on launch day

Real, finished, and ready for paying customers from day one — on your own website, or live on the App Store.

Designed to look the part

Clean, modern, beautifully designed. Looks like you spent ten times what you actually did.

Built like the apps you actually use

Made with the same kind of technology behind Instagram, Notion, and the apps you open every day. Solid, fast, and ready to grow with you.

Yours to keep, forever

The code, the design files, the keys to everything — all yours from day one. No subscriptions to me. No vendor holding it hostage.

Pricing

One fixed price. Three weeks.

Pay half to start, half on launch. Nothing leaves your account until we've agreed exactly what you're getting.

Web

A modern web app on your own domain. All yours.

$5,000

One-time · Fixed price · USD

What's included

  • Works beautifully on phone and laptop
  • Sign-up, login, and Stripe payments built in
  • Live on your domain, hosted on your account
  • Polished design, built around your brand
  • 100% of the code is yours
  • 14 days of free help after launch

Nothing to pay until we agree the plan.

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iOS

A native iPhone app. Live in the App Store.

$8,000

One-time · Fixed price · USD

What's included

  • A real iPhone app — not a wrapped website
  • Submitted to the App Store, plus TestFlight for early testers
  • Sign-up, login, and payments (Stripe or in-app purchases)
  • Push notifications, if you want them
  • 100% of the code is yours
  • 14 days of free help after launch

Nothing to pay until we agree the plan.

Best Value · save $1K

Web + iOS

Web and iPhone, sharing one set-up behind the scenes. Save $1K.

$12,000

One-time · Fixed price · USD

What's included

  • Everything in Web + iOS
  • One shared engine running both
  • Matching design across web and iPhone
  • Live on the App Store and on your domain
  • 100% of the code is yours
  • 14 days of free help after launch

Nothing to pay until we agree the plan.

Optional add-ons

  • Ship in 2 weeks+$1,500
  • 60 days of post-launch help+$800
  • Brand refresh + logo+$1,200

Pick any of these on our first call. Need something custom? Just ask.

A bigger idea, or something unusual? Apply anyway — I'll be honest with you about whether it's a good fit.

Why I built this

More ideas deserve to ship — by a founder who's shipped her own.

I'm a founder, developer, and creator. I started out in consulting and investment banking, jumped into tech, then left to build my own companies — and I've spent the years since growing them. Along the way, the same kind of message kept landing in my inbox: a brilliant woman, a real audience, a clear idea — and no way to turn it into a real product without spending six figures and six months.

Mums working between school runs. Ex-consultants with a course already written in their head. Creators sitting on a community they could be charging for. None of them needed a co-founder. They needed someone to actually build the thing — properly, on time, on a price they could plan around — and hand them the keys.

Built with: Next.js · Expo · Tailwind · Supabase · Stripe · Vercel.

A few things I've shipped

justmovedubai.com
JustMove — fast company registration in Dubai, fully online
alotea.com
Alotea — AI-powered luxury travel concierge across 500+ destinations
bemodelai.com
BeModelAI — AI-generated model portfolio from three selfies

What people say

Don't just take my word for it.

I sat on this idea for two years, scared of the $30K quotes. Kat shipped it in three weeks and I made the build cost back in a month.

Sara M.

Founder, paid newsletter (12K subs)

She just gets it. No 47-page Notion doc, no kickoff theatre. We talked, she built, I have a real product. I think of her as my CTO.

Annabel K.

Ex-MBB consultant turned coach

First developer I've worked with who actually finished — and explained the code so clearly I could hire someone else later if I needed to.

Priya R.

Wellness creator, mum of two (45K IG)

FAQ

The questions people always ask.

Last 2 spots · May 2026

Ship the thing. Three weeks from now.

Two minutes to apply. 24-hour reply. No payment until we've agreed the scope.

15 minutes on Zoom · No payment until scoping is approved.