[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":323},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fservices\u002Fcustom-software-development\u002Friyadh":3,"\u002Fservices\u002Fcustom-software-development:title":186,"pillar-cases:custom-software-development":188,"resources-strip:custom-software-development::3":299},{"id":4,"title":5,"answer":6,"body":7,"city":93,"description":94,"extension":95,"faq":96,"hostingRegions":121,"icon":126,"keyword":127,"localFacts":128,"meta":145,"metaTitle":146,"navigation":147,"offer":148,"pains":149,"path":150,"pillar":151,"reframe":149,"seo":152,"stem":153,"steps":154,"technologies":171,"updated":184,"__hash__":185},"cities\u002Fservices\u002Fcustom-software-development\u002Friyadh.md","Custom Software and MVP Development in Riyadh","QuantumBlock builds web, mobile and SaaS products for Riyadh companies, delivered from Dubai with on-site sprints in Riyadh for scoping and launch. Saudi IT services are growing about 18 percent a year, and we ship an MVP in ten weeks with weekly demos, hosted in-Kingdom when your project needs it, and you own the code.",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":85},"minimark",[10,15,19,22,25,29,32,35,38,42,45,67,71],[11,12,14],"h2",{"id":13},"the-cost-of-getting-this-wrong","The cost of getting this wrong",[16,17,18],"p",{},"A Riyadh founder hears the same story that has been told across the Gulf for years: six weeks quoted, four months delivered, and what actually shipped is a login screen and a change request for phase two that costs more than phase one did. The Year of AI mandate makes the gap more expensive, not less, because a competitor moving on a real product while you wait on a vendor's second estimate is a competitor who gets to be the case study.",[16,20,21],{},"The second failure is an MVP that works too well too fast. Built on shortcuts that survive a friendly pilot group, it collapses the week the Year of AI momentum brings real traffic, and the rebuild lands exactly when you can least afford to stop shipping. Saudi IT services are growing about 18 percent a year toward USD 45.8 billion by 2030, and more money moving through vendors only makes an architecture mistake more expensive to unwind later.",[16,23,24],{},"The third cost is a residency question nobody asked at the start. A product built on a default cloud region works until a regulated client or an NCA ECC review asks where the data actually sits, and moving a live database into the Kingdom after launch is a far bigger job than choosing Oracle Riyadh or STC Cloud in week one.",[11,26,28],{"id":27},"how-we-do-it-differently","How we do it differently",[16,30,31],{},"The MVP Sprint runs the same disciplined ten weeks for a Riyadh client as anywhere else. In week one we cut the idea down to the smallest product that proves the business, agree it in writing, and make the architecture calls that matter at ten times launch traffic. From week two to week eight, every week ends with working software on a real URL you can click, test and show to your own team, with scope changes traded openly rather than added quietly.",[16,33,34],{},"Delivery is led from our Dubai office, with on-site sprints in Riyadh for the scoping workshop and the launch week, because those conversations go better in a room than on a call. Between visits, the weekly demo still lands on schedule from Dubai, on Riyadh time with only an hour's difference. When your product needs data resident in the Kingdom under NCA ECC controls, we set up hosting on Oracle Cloud Riyadh and Jeddah, Google's Dammam region or STC Cloud, documented for your PDPL file.",[16,36,37],{},"The stack is deliberately unexciting: TypeScript, Nuxt or Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL and Flutter, with Stripe, Telr or a Saudi-licensed gateway for payments. We do not have a Saudi commercial registration yet, so the engagement runs through our Dubai entity while we build toward a Kingdom presence, and we say so plainly rather than implying a local office we do not have.",[11,39,41],{"id":40},"what-you-get","What you get",[16,43,44],{},"At the end of the MVP Sprint you have a product in production and everything needed to keep it moving:",[46,47,48,52,55,58,61,64],"ul",{},[49,50,51],"li",{},"A written scope and architecture from week one, with the reasoning behind each major decision.",[49,53,54],{},"A launchable web or mobile app with authentication, payments and an admin panel.",[49,56,57],{},"Weekly demos on a live URL, with a running log of decisions and scope trades.",[49,59,60],{},"Hosting in a Saudi or UAE cloud region, set up under your own accounts, with monitoring and backups.",[49,62,63],{},"A security review and load test report from week nine.",[49,65,66],{},"Source code, CI\u002FCD pipeline and documentation in your repositories, with all IP assigned to you.",[11,68,70],{"id":69},"who-this-is-for","Who this is for",[46,72,73,76,79,82],{},[49,74,75],{},"A Riyadh founder with a validated idea who needs a launchable product in a quarter, built so it will not need a rewrite when the Year of AI push brings real traffic.",[49,77,78],{},"An established Saudi business replacing spreadsheets with one custom system, wanting data kept in-Kingdom under NCA ECC controls.",[49,80,81],{},"A company with a half-finished product from a previous vendor that needs an honest audit and a team to finish it under weekly demos.",[49,83,84],{},"Not for you if the idea has not been tested with a single customer yet. Talk to five of them first; the MVP will be better for it.",{"title":86,"searchDepth":87,"depth":87,"links":88},"",2,[89,90,91,92],{"id":13,"depth":87,"text":14},{"id":27,"depth":87,"text":28},{"id":40,"depth":87,"text":41},{"id":69,"depth":87,"text":70},"riyadh","Software development company for Riyadh founders: a launchable MVP in ten weeks, weekly demos, delivered from Dubai with on-site sprints and in-Kingdom hosting.","md",[97,100,103,106,109,112,115,118],{"q":98,"a":99},"Do you have a development office in Riyadh?","No. We lead from our Dubai office, build with our Yerevan engineering team and run on-site sprints in Riyadh for scoping workshops and launch, so the people who need to be in the room are, without the overhead of a second entity.",{"q":101,"a":102},"How long does an MVP take for a Saudi founder?","Our MVP Sprint is ten weeks: one week of scope and architecture, seven weeks of weekly shipped increments, one week of hardening and one week for launch, the same shape whether the product ships in Riyadh, Jeddah or Dubai.",{"q":104,"a":105},"Can the product's data stay inside Saudi Arabia?","Yes. We host on Oracle Cloud Riyadh and Jeddah, Google's Dammam region or STC Cloud when your product needs in-Kingdom residency under NCA ECC controls, and document the setup for your PDPL records.",{"q":107,"a":108},"Do we own the code and infrastructure?","Yes, always. Repositories, cloud accounts, domains and app store listings are created in your name from day one, whether your company is registered in the Kingdom or in the UAE.",{"q":110,"a":111},"How do you handle the Saudi talent gap on a build?","We bring the engineering team rather than waiting on a hire. Saudi Arabia faces a projected shortage of 663,000 skilled workers by 2030, and our Dubai-led team ships the MVP while your own hiring runs in parallel.",{"q":113,"a":114},"Can you take over a half-finished project built by a Riyadh agency?","Yes. We start with a short code and infrastructure audit, tell you honestly what can be kept and what should be rebuilt, then take over delivery under the same weekly demo rhythm.",{"q":116,"a":117},"Does the Year of AI change what gets built into the MVP?","It changes what founders ask for, not our discipline. Saudi Arabia declared 2026 the Year of AI, so more MVPs now include an assistant or an agent feature, and we build it as a component we can test and swap, not a headline with no working demo.",{"q":119,"a":120},"Can you integrate with Odoo, Zoho or a Saudi payment gateway?","Yes. We connect products to Odoo, Zoho and Microsoft Dynamics through their APIs, and wire up Stripe, Telr or a Saudi-licensed gateway for payments, so staff stop typing the same record twice.",[122,123,124,125],"Oracle Cloud Riyadh and Jeddah","Google Cloud me-central2 (Dammam)","AWS Middle East (Bahrain) with in-Kingdom options","STC Cloud and HUMAIN for sovereign workloads","block-rocket","software development company Riyadh",[129,133,137,141],{"label":130,"value":131,"source":132},"Market","KSA IT services growing about 18 percent a year toward USD 45.8 billion by 2030","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mordorintelligence.com\u002Findustry-reports\u002Fsaudi-arabia-it-services-market",{"label":134,"value":135,"source":136},"Talent gap","A projected shortage of 663,000 skilled workers by 2030; 93 percent of organisations report talent gaps","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.saviorhire.com\u002Fpost\u002Ftop-it-staff-augmentation-companies-saudi-arabia",{"label":138,"value":139,"source":140},"Regulator","Saudi PDPL fully enforceable since September 2024; NCA ECC controls require in-Kingdom data residency and failover","https:\u002F\u002Fmomentumx.cloud\u002Fblog\u002Fnca-ecc-cloud-compliance-saudi-arabia-2026\u002F",{"label":142,"value":143,"source":144},"Year of AI","Saudi Arabia declared 2026 the Year of AI with SDAIA guidelines to unify national efforts","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.arabnews.com\u002Fnode\u002F2636061\u002Fsaudi-arabia",{},"Software Development Company Riyadh | MVP in 10 Weeks",true,"mvp-sprint",null,"\u002Fservices\u002Fcustom-software-development\u002Friyadh","custom-software-development",{"title":5,"description":94},"services\u002Fcustom-software-development\u002Friyadh",[155,159,163,167],{"week":156,"title":157,"body":158},"Week 1","Scope, architecture, design system","We cut the idea down to the smallest product that proves the business, agree it in writing, choose the architecture and set up the design system, repositories and cloud accounts in your name.",{"week":160,"title":161,"body":162},"Weeks 2 to 8","Weekly shipped increments","Every week ends with a demo of working software on a real URL, not a progress report. You test it, we adjust, and scope changes are traded openly rather than added silently.",{"week":164,"title":165,"body":166},"Week 9","Hardening, security review, load test","Error handling, logging, backups, a security review of authentication, payments and data access, and a load test at well above your launch traffic, so launch week is boring.",{"week":168,"title":169,"body":170},"Week 10","Launch and hand-over","Production release, app store submission where needed, monitoring switched on, and a hand-over with documentation and CI\u002FCD so your team or ours can keep shipping from day one.",[172,173,174,175,176,177,178,179,180,181,182,183],"TypeScript","Node.js","Nuxt and Vue","React and Next.js","Flutter","Python","PostgreSQL","AWS","Azure","Stripe and Telr payments","Odoo and Zoho integrations","Ethereum and Solidity when needed","2026-09-25","_9RrJrwignb4brc0DynyRCGOBLOUKW7AKt15bIq_Zi4",{"title":187},"Custom Software and MVP Development",[189,213,244,270],{"path":190,"title":191,"client":192,"industry":193,"outcomes":194,"stack":207,"anonymised":147},"\u002Fcase-studies\u002Fdubai-real-estate-deal-monitor","An automated deal monitor for a Dubai luxury real-estate brokerage","A Dubai luxury real-estate brokerage","Residential real estate brokerage",[195,199,203],{"metric":196,"value":197,"how":198},"Listings screened in one day","2,074 listings analysed","Persisted daily activity log, 10 April 2026, across six Telegram broker groups.",{"metric":200,"value":201,"how":202},"Messages scanned in one day","1,010 messages scanned","Same daily activity log, 10 April 2026.",{"metric":204,"value":205,"how":206},"Qualifying deals surfaced","13 deals flagged","Same daily activity log, 10 April 2026: listings priced more than 10% below the trailing 12-month market average per square foot.",[208,209,210,211,212],"Python automation pipeline","An open-source agent framework","Telegram integration (Pyrogram)","Google Sheets reporting (gspread)","cron and launchd scheduling",{"path":214,"title":215,"client":216,"industry":217,"outcomes":218,"stack":235,"anonymised":243},"\u002Fcase-studies\u002Floyalsclub","LoyalsClub: a multi-business loyalty platform built and launched from Dubai","LoyalsClub","Retail and services loyalty",[219,223,227,231],{"metric":220,"value":221,"how":222},"Value of a returning customer","2.4x lifetime spend","Owner-portal transaction ledger for a Dubai barbershop, 2 May to 13 Aug 2026: 21 of 70 enrolled customers returned at least once and averaged AED 773 lifetime spend versus AED 320 for one-time customers.",{"metric":224,"value":225,"how":226},"Revenue concentration in repeat customers","51% of tracked revenue","Same ledger and period: the returning 30% of enrolled customers produced 51% of the AED 31,936 in tracked revenue, which was staff-entered rather than POS-verified.",{"metric":228,"value":229,"how":230},"Enrollment and scanned visits","70 customers enrolled, 107 scanned visits","Owner-portal enrollment and scan counts, 2 May to 13 Aug 2026.",{"metric":232,"value":233,"how":234},"In-app customer rating","4.9 average from 23 reviewers, 29 reviews","In-app review widget, 2 May to 13 Aug 2026. This is an in-app rating, not a Google review.",[236,237,238,239,240,241,242],"C# \u002F .NET 10 on ASP.NET Core","PostgreSQL and EF Core","Terraform and Terragrunt on AWS (UAE region)","Flutter (iOS and Android, customer and staff apps)","Nuxt 4 owner portal and public site","Stripe subscriptions and webhooks","Cloudflare DNS and edge",false,{"path":245,"title":246,"client":247,"industry":248,"outcomes":249,"stack":263,"anonymised":147},"\u002Fcase-studies\u002Fluxury-fashion-resale-marketplace","Rebuilding the infrastructure under a live luxury resale marketplace","A luxury fashion resale marketplace (UAE)","Consumer marketplace, pre-owned luxury fashion",[250,254,257,260],{"metric":251,"value":252,"how":253},"Infrastructure migration","Full move to containerised AWS ECS with Terraform-managed infrastructure","scope delivered; no published metric",{"metric":255,"value":256,"how":253},"Deployment pipeline","Automated build, migration and deploy via GitHub Actions",{"metric":258,"value":259,"how":253},"Mobile releases kept shipping","Multiple iOS and Android releases stayed live on both app stores",{"metric":261,"value":262,"how":253},"Checkout reliability","Crash fixes and a cart-service refactor shipped to production",[264,265,266,267,268,269],"Laravel API (existing codebase)","MySQL and Redis","Docker on AWS ECS","Terraform and Terragrunt","GitHub Actions CI\u002FCD","Flutter mobile app (iOS and Android)",{"path":271,"title":272,"client":273,"industry":274,"outcomes":275,"stack":292,"anonymised":243},"\u002Fcase-studies\u002Fmetaloto","MetaLoto: a fully on-chain lottery, built and audited","MetaLoto","Web3 gaming, decentralised lottery",[276,280,284,288],{"metric":277,"value":278,"how":279},"Test coverage","47 tests, 93.6% statement coverage","Hardhat test suite (11 describe blocks, 47 tests) and solidity-coverage report: 88 of 94 statements covered.",{"metric":281,"value":282,"how":283},"Audit rounds","3 internal audit rounds","Internal audit reports dated 26 to 28 April 2026, covering the latest contract diff and overall launch readiness.",{"metric":285,"value":286,"how":287},"Launch-readiness blockers closed","8 of 10 blockers closed","Launch-readiness audit findings dated 26 to 28 April 2026. The remaining two were non-code items such as social handles, seed liquidity and geo-blocking.",{"metric":289,"value":290,"how":291},"Mainnets scripted for deployment","7 mainnets scripted, 3 environments actually deployed","Deployment scripts target seven mainnets: Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, BSC and Avalanche, plus testnets; only Sepolia, localhost and Docker deployments exist in the repository to date.",[293,294,295,296,297,298],"Solidity on Hardhat","OpenZeppelin contract libraries","Chainlink VRF for on-chain randomness","Node.js and Express, MongoDB","Nuxt 4 frontend and admin panel","Terraform on AWS ECS",[300,308,316],{"path":301,"title":302,"description":303,"hero":304,"category":307},"\u002Finsights\u002Fai-coding-agents-claude-code-codex-cursor-why-your-vendor-should-use-them","AI-Augmented Software Delivery: Why Your Vendor Should Use Claude Code, Codex or Cursor","AI-augmented software delivery with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor changes cost and speed, not architecture or ownership. What to ask a vendor before you sign.",{"base":305,"alt":306},"ai-coding-agents-claude-code-codex-cursor-why-your-vendor-should-use-them","A small engineering team in Dubai reviewing pull requests generated with an AI coding agent on a shared screen","ai-agents",{"path":309,"title":310,"description":311,"hero":312,"category":315},"\u002Finsights\u002Fhow-much-does-it-cost-to-build-an-app-in-dubai-2026","How Much Does It Cost to Build an App in Dubai in 2026?","How much does it cost to build an app in Dubai in 2026? Real price bands for MVPs, business apps and AI-enabled builds, plus what actually moves the number.",{"base":313,"alt":314},"how-much-does-it-cost-to-build-an-app-in-dubai-2026","A founder in a Dubai co-working space reviewing three stacked app development quotes on a laptop with one circled in red pen","cost-guides",{"path":317,"title":318,"description":319,"hero":320,"category":315},"\u002Finsights\u002Fsoftware-development-cost-saudi-arabia-2026","Software Development Cost Saudi Arabia in 2026","Software development cost Saudi Arabia buyers should expect: SAR 50,000 for an MVP to SAR 1.5M for an agentic programme, plus procurement and hosting rules.",{"base":321,"alt":322},"software-development-cost-saudi-arabia-2026","A Riyadh business owner reviewing a software project budget spreadsheet with SAR figures beside a laptop",1791749788858]