Apadmi Alternative

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Apadmi is excellent for enterprise app builds at £100k+. If you are a UK startup or SMB with a tighter budget and tighter timeline, you need a different shape of partner. We are a founder-led studio, fixed-price from £5,000, MVPs in 21 days, and no enterprise minimums.

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Why Startups Pick Us

How We Differ

Six concrete differences founders mention when comparing us to enterprise UK app studios like Apadmi or Hedgehog Lab.

Founder-Led Delivery

You speak to Bela Gulyas (founder, BELAVIN LIMITED, Companies House 16735157) on the very first call and every call after. No business-development hand-off, no project manager translating between you and engineering.

Startup-Sized Budgets

Web MVPs from £5,000, mobile MVPs from £8,000, SaaS MVPs from £12,000. Enterprise studios typically have minimums starting at £50,000-£100,000 — right answer for a Fortune 500, wrong answer for a pre-seed startup.

21-Day MVP, Not 6-Month Discovery

We agree scope on a 60-minute call and start building within a week. Enterprise studios often run 4-8 week discovery phases that startups simply cannot afford.

Source Code Yours From Day One

Your code lives in your private Git repository. No vendor lock-in, no maintenance contract dependency, no “our team can extend this if you stay with us”.

Hireable Tech Stack

Flutter (cross-platform), Next.js / React (web), Node.js with PostgreSQL (backend). Mainstream UK developer pool of thousands — not a proprietary stack only the original studio understands.

UK-Registered, GDPR-First

BELAVIN LIMITED, registered in England & Wales. UK GDPR by default, ICO-aware data handling, real privacy policy, and Companies House transparency.

Honest Comparison

Apadmi vs GuruSoftwares

Apadmi is a great enterprise studio. We are a great startup studio. The difference matters.

Apadmi Works When…

You are a large organisation with enterprise procurement, £100,000+ budgets, formal vendor due diligence, and timelines that can absorb a multi-month discovery phase. Apadmi excel at this scale.

GuruSoftwares Works When…

You are a startup or SMB with a tight budget and a tighter timeline. You want direct access to the person building your product. You value speed of delivery and code ownership.

Honest Limitation

We are a focused studio. We take a small number of clients at a time. If you need a 30-engineer team for a 12-month enterprise programme, Apadmi is the better answer. For most UK startups, founders, and SMBs, we are.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Apadmi typically starts engagements at £50,000-£100,000 minimum, with enterprise builds running into hundreds of thousands. We start fixed-price MVPs at £5,000 (web) and £8,000 (mobile). The right comparison depends on what you are actually building — ask both for written quotes.
Honest answer: in many cases yes, in some cases no. We ship production-grade code with proper testing, CI/CD, and architecture. What we do not provide is a 50-person team, a multi-month discovery process, or enterprise-procurement infrastructure. For most startup builds the trade-off is worthwhile; for genuine enterprise needs it is not.
Bela Gulyas (founder) leads every project, with selected UK-based contractors when scope justifies extra capacity. We do not subcontract to offshore teams without telling you upfront. Every commit is reviewed before merge.
If you need to move to an enterprise studio later (Apadmi, Hedgehog Lab, ustwo) because your company has scaled, we make that handover as smooth as possible — clean code, full documentation, no lock-in. Several of our past clients have eventually moved on, and that is fine.
Yes. BELAVIN LIMITED is registered in England & Wales (Companies House 16735157). All work is UK-led. We do collaborate with carefully selected UK-based contractors when project scope justifies it — never offshore teams without telling you upfront.
A focused web MVP ships in 21 days. Mobile and SaaS MVPs in 4-8 weeks. Larger platforms run 8-16 weeks. Apadmi’s timelines vary by project but enterprise programmes commonly run 6-12 months end-to-end.
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Tell us what you’re building and your budget. We’ll come back within 24 hours with an honest scope and quote — including a recommendation to talk to Apadmi or another enterprise studio if your needs are genuinely enterprise-scale.

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