The three questions · 01
Who will pay for your idea?
Not who finds it interesting: who actually takes out their wallet, how much they will spend, and how they solve the same problem today without you.
Got a digital business idea? Before you build it, find out whether it holds up.
I tell you whether it is worth building and what it costs to keep running. Even when the answer is no.
Free · I reply within a day
The three questions
The three questions · 02
What does it cost to keep running every month?
Servers, payment fees, third-party services, support. The line that never appears in a quote, and the one that decides whether the project reaches its second year.
The three questions · 03
Which rules can stop it?
Privacy and data handling, e-invoicing, licences in your sector, VAT if you sell abroad. Constraints to know before you build, not after launch.
These are the three questions I answer with the numbers of your own case, before a single line of code is written. The answers change the project, not the way it looks.
Estimate
What does it cost to build? Five questions, one range.
It is not a quote and it is better than a quote: it is the order of magnitude, with the monthly costs nobody shows you before you sign.
One moment...
How I work
First we talk, for free. Then, if needed, the audit.
01
You tell me the idea
FreeThree lines in the form. I reply within a day: either the idea deserves an audit, or my answer is all you need.
02
Feasibility audit
Only after the first contact: nothing is bought blind.
- Price
- 1,200 €
- Duration
- 2 weeks
If we then build it, the audit fee is deducted from the project.
What it contains
- Market
- Architecture
- Running costs
- Legal and tax risks
- Verdict: yes, no, or like this
03
If it holds up, I build it
Development, launch, monitoring. Whoever did the audit writes the code. The code is yours from day one.
04If it grows, I join as partner.Only in selected cases: real capital and customers already in hand.
I also say no.
An audit that always ends with a yes is a quote in disguise. If the idea does not hold up I write it down, with the numbers. That is when the audit saves you the most.
Proof
Three real problems, and how they ended.
Not a portfolio: what was broken, what changed.
About me
25 years building things that have to stay switched on.
I am Marco Andrea Sala. For twenty-five years I have written software other people use to work: management systems, marketplaces, apps in the stores, backends that handle real payments.
I put Assobay into production, a marketplace with payments split across sellers, e-invoicing and shipping. I have published Android and iOS apps. I work on an ongoing basis with a US artificial-intelligence company. I work alone, with a few clients at a time.
- 25
- Years in the trade
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- Projects in production
- [NUMERO]
- Apps published in the stores
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Questions
The ones I always get.
First contact · free
Tell me the idea in three lines.
I reply personally, within one working day: either I propose the audit, or the answer is all you need. No quote, no commitment.
Prefer to write to me directly? idea@maslabs.it