About the founder
Valery Satsura
Founder & CEO, Start Matter
I am the founder of Start Matter. We are a one-engineer shop that ships production software for founders in one to four weeks. Flat price. Your code from day one.
Over the last decade I shipped SaaS platforms, mobile apps, and internal tools for startups across eleven cities. Modern tooling lets one senior engineer move at the pace of a five-person team. That is the whole thesis.
Start Matter operates as a distributed team with presence in Europe and the US — for coverage, continuity, and overlap with your hours. You still work with me directly, start to finish, as your one point of contact.
Cities served
11+
Shipped projects
50+
Average MVP
14 days
Your code
100%
What I do
Three shapes of work.
Same engineer.
Product engineering
End-to-end builds in React, Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript. Shipped in weeks, not quarters.
SaaS development
Multi-tenant apps with billing, auth, and admin. Stripe-ready, fully owned by you on day one.
Fractional CTO
Architecture, hiring, code review, and hands-on execution when the team needs a senior pair of hands.
How I work
Predictable on four things.
Flat-price quotes
No hourly games. You see the number, we ship to it.
One-week starts
Most builds begin within seven days of the first call.
Your code from day one
Repo on your GitHub, infra on your cloud. No lock-in.
Distributed team, one contact
Presence across Europe and the US for coverage and continuity. You still work with me, start to finish.
Find me
Reach out where it suits you.
Want a flat-price quote?
Tell me about the build.
One 30-minute call. You bring the problem, I send back a quote within 24 hours. Free, no commitment.
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