Is a simple product a Minimum Viable Product, or just simple? ( <- this is my question) I think this service is great. But once again lean startup words are be

Is a simple product a Minimum Viable Product, or just simple? ( <- this is my question) I think this service is great. But once again lean startup words are being used when I don't think they're appropriate, or needed. I feel this partly because, if ReadMyCode required a MVP - there's a much quicker way to prove that people need to do x (it isn't clear to me what it does. Gist comments? Gist has that) by using pen/paper/skype/wordpress.