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If the MVP isn't compelling, why even spend time and money developing it? Why not spend those resources building something closer to the "real" product?
by panic 11y ago
If the MVP isn't compelling, why even spend time and money developing it? Why not spend those resources building something closer to the "real" product?
- dang 11y agoThere's a long history of big things starting as small things. http://www.paulgraham.com/altair.html http://www.paulgraham.com/altair.html
- panic 11y agoPeople actually wanted to use those things, though, even though they sounded silly and small. That's why they were able to grow into something larger. Microsoft's customers weren't thinking, "well, Altair Basic isn't that useful, but you can't judge them by the scope of their MVP -- Microsoft told their investors they'll build a whole OS someday."
- dang 11y agoThat sounds tautological to me, but maybe I'm not following your argument. I do sense a bit of hindsight in it, though. The initial market for Altair BASIC was as small as it gets.
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