How long does it take to build a software prototype in Dubai?
Published timelines in Dubai run from four to fourteen weeks, and the discovery phase alone is quoted at 1 to 4 weeks. The First 72 returns a high-fidelity prototype, a technical scope and a fixed build quotation within 72 hours.
What timelines do Dubai studios publish?
A public ranking of MVP studios in Dubai lists delivery times of four to eight weeks at the fastest and ten to fourteen weeks at the slowest. A basic software product is quoted separately at 3 to 6 months.
Before any of that, the discovery and planning phase is quoted at 1 to 4 weeks on its own. Design follows at three to six weeks. Engineering begins after both.
The First 72 arrives in 72 hours, which is three days. The deadline is written into the service agreement rather than into a proposal.
What makes 72 hours possible?
The scope of the delivery is fixed before the clock starts. A studio that quotes six weeks is quoting a period in which the deliverable is still being negotiated; most of that time is spent agreeing what the time is for.
Here the four deliverables are named in the contract and identical on every project. What varies is the product, and the product arrives as one sentence — which is a brief a team can begin on the same hour it lands.
The other half is that this is one team rather than a chain of them. The people who design the first version are the people who scope the build and the people who quote it, so the handovers that consume most of a six-week estimate simply have nowhere to happen.
What happens after the 72 hours?
A product review, with one consolidated revision round included. That review is where the prototype is walked through, the scope is questioned and the quotation is explained.
From there the decision belongs entirely to the buyer. Approving the quotation moves the project into design completion, engineering, testing and launch with the same team and the agreed scope. Taking the prototype and the scope elsewhere is equally available — they are deliverables, paid for.
A focused product can arrive ready to publish inside the first 72 hours. Larger products continue into production the moment the quotation is approved.
The First 72 · AED 4,500 · Delivered within 72 hours.
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Updated 2026-08-04