Quality
Production code and tasteful UI, no slop. I only take on projects I want my name on — which means I'll make sure you're happy to put yours on it too.
I ship the first version
of your product in a week.
Engineering, design, brand. By one senior engineer.
Book a call 30 minutes. No pitch deck.
Things I have actually shipped.
Solo, end-to-end.
Green Room
Streaming platform plus a from-scratch audio ML model that classifies human-made vs AI-generated music. Web, iOS, design system, brand.
Self-hosted AI agent.
Nero
One coherent agent across voice, terminal, web, and SMS. Persistent memory, background thinking, MCP, real-time emotion on calls.
Workspace for AI agents.
Pompeii
Web app, iOS app, CLI bridge daemon, agent SDK, MCP package, docs site — all on one product model. Three years deep. My day job.
Customer research at scale.
Dialog
AI agents conduct and analyze customer interviews in parallel. 200k+ participant pool, 50+ languages, queryable insight in hours.
OAuth, abstracted.
Aqueducts
Plug-and-play OAuth across every major provider. Auth flows, token refresh, and secure credential storage in a few lines.
Unified data runtime.
LuxDB
Redis-compatible core that also handles vectors, timeseries, relational tables with JOINs, and BullMQ-compatible job queues. One system instead of five.
Three things, actually delivered.
Care
One engineer on your project. Present, focused, available. You hear from me daily during the build.
Speed
First version live in seven to fourteen days. Years of practice and a workflow built for it make this possible without cutting corners.
A short, uneventful process.
- 01
Discovery call
30 min. You describe the product. I tell you whether I can build it, what it would cost, and how long it would take.
- 02
Scope and start
Within a day or two, you get a written scope, a fixed price, and a start date.
- 03
Build
1–2 weeks of focused work. Daily updates, private link to the work-in-progress.
- 04
Ship
Live URL. Code in your repo. You own all of it.
I'm Matty. Cofounder and CTO of Pompeii Labs, where I've spent three years shipping AI agents and developer infrastructure. Before that, embedded systems engineer on Amazon Alexa.
mattyhogan.com is where I take outside 0-to-1 work — the founding-engineer kind, where the fastest path from idea to live product is one engineer who can do all of it.
The ones I get most.
How fast is fast?
Most engagements ship a working first version in seven to fourteen days. The clock starts the day we agree on scope, not the day of the discovery call.
What do I actually get?
A working product, live, with the code in your repo. If you don't already have the infrastructure to run it (Supabase, DigitalOcean, OpenRouter, etc.), I'll set those up under your accounts as part of the engagement — you own everything from day one. Brand and design assets too, if those are in scope.
What's not included?
Long-term maintenance, on-call support, and team management. I build the first thing well and hand it over. Ongoing work after launch is a separate conversation.
Who owns the code?
You do. Full IP transfer on delivery. I don't retain any rights to your product, and I don't reuse your code on other projects.
What if my project needs more than $10,000?
Most do. $10,000 is the floor — a focused one-week build. Larger projects (full product, agent platforms, design and brand from scratch) are scoped per project and priced accordingly. We talk about it on the call.
How do you ship so fast?
Years of practice, a workflow tuned for it, and a strong AI stack I built and use daily. I do not skip quality to hit timelines — I scope down until quality and speed are both possible.
Are you available right now?
Probably. I take a small number of engagements at a time. If I'm booked, I'll tell you on the call and we'll find a start date that works.