DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
We build custom software in React and React Native, pairing senior engineers with AI-accelerated development to ship production-grade web and mobile products in weeks, not months.
★★★★★
“Other app developer quoted 10X the price to create a live testable version. DreamLabs pricing structure has meant we can quickly get the app in users hands and see what they think!”
Jenn Brooks · Founder & CEO @ Nurture
As a fractional product team, we start by defining your vision and sharpening your strategy. We don’t just say “yes,” but always ask “why?”, helping your dev budget go further and faster.
We use AI-accelerated development to help teams of all sizes launch custom, scale-ready digital products. Ship in days/weeks, not months/years.
User testing is a bonus service we offer to all clients for free. This means we learn together from real users with each release.
[What We Do]
We build web products in React and Next.js and mobile products in React Native with Expo, written in TypeScript end to end. Our AI-enabled process — AI-assisted scaffolding, code generation, and automated test coverage, all directed and reviewed by senior engineers — compresses the repetitive stretches of a build, and when a product needs both a web app and a mobile app, we share business logic, API clients, and type definitions across the two so a feature built once doesn't have to be built twice. Behind the front end, we engineer the Node.js services, APIs, and database architecture your product depends on with the same rigor.
We get from requirements to a working product fast, then ship in short, reviewable increments — you give feedback on real screens throughout the build instead of waiting months for one big reveal. Continuous integration and automated testing run from the first sprint, catching problems while they're still cheap to fix. When it's time to launch, we handle the full path to production: web deployment on modern cloud infrastructure, app-store submission for iOS and Android through Expo's build tooling, and over-the-air updates that let improvements reach your users without waiting on store review.
[Deliverables]
Native iOS and Android apps built in React Native with Expo, from a single TypeScript codebase that renders real native UI rather than a webpage wrapped in an app shell. We handle the full build — architecture, implementation, testing, and app-store submission — with AI accelerating the repetitive work and senior engineers reviewing everything that ships. Over-the-air updates let us push fixes and improvements to your users without waiting on store review.
Web applications built in React and Next.js — SaaS products, customer portals, and internal dashboards, with server-side rendering where SEO and load performance matter. AI-assisted development shortens the timeline; our engineers focus on the data flows, integrations, and performance work that separate a demo from a product. What you get is production-grade, maintainable TypeScript that your own team can extend long after launch.
The backend behind your React front end: Node.js services, APIs, databases, and third-party integrations, written in TypeScript so types flow from your database schema all the way to your UI components and entire categories of bugs are caught before they ship. Our engineers use AI to accelerate scaffolding and test coverage, then concentrate on the architecture and data-modeling decisions that determine how the system scales.
[FAQs]
Prototypes start at $6,000 and full MVPs at $15,000. A typical React build with our AI-accelerated process runs around $20,000 all-in, compared to the roughly $200,000 traditional agencies charge for comparable custom development. The savings come from how we work, not what we skip: AI handles scaffolding, boilerplate, and test writing under senior review, and when a project needs both web and mobile, the shared React codebase means you're not paying for two separate builds.
About 6 weeks for a typical build with our team, versus the roughly 6 months a traditional development cycle takes. AI-assisted code generation and testing take the slow, manual gruntwork off the critical path, React's mature library ecosystem means we rarely construct commodity functionality from scratch, and short, visible iteration cycles keep the project moving without a long integration phase at the end.
One team and largely one codebase can cover your web app and your iOS and Android apps, which cuts both cost and timeline. React is backed by Meta, surrounded by one of the deepest library ecosystems in front-end software, and pairs naturally with TypeScript — a language whose developer pool is among the largest in the industry. That combination means faster builds now and a product that's easy to staff and extend later.
Yes — that's one of the strongest arguments for the stack. React and TypeScript developers are among the easiest engineers to hire, so you're never dependent on us or on specialists in a niche framework. We ship documented, conventionally structured TypeScript with automated test coverage in place, which means a new developer can read the codebase, understand it, and start contributing safely.
[01] Product Strategy
We start by helping you define your long and short-term product visions. We then break down the concepts into concrete features and functions, so we can piece them back together into a prioritized roadmap.
[02] Development
With the framework pinned down, we go heads-down on execution. We leverage AI-powered tooling and a modern Flutter + Firebase stack to develop your product in record time.
[03] Polishing + Launch QA
Your finished product to ensure that each feature works seamlessly, every color is precise and all copy is ready for publication. We then manage the entire app publishing process on mobile, web or both.
