What you describe is a functional prototype not a finished application. A functional prototype is software that implements its functional requirements (e.g: fe

What you describe is a functional prototype not a finished application. A functional prototype is software that implements its functional requirements (e.g: features) but not its non-functional requirements (maintainability, stability, scalability, performance, configuration, monitoring, security, etc.) What is "a lot of baloney" is people selling functional prototypes for the price of a finished application, or not knowing the difference.