Totally! And that's what some of my gigs have been. "We've got a product, we've found a market, and we need to fix some things about the product that we don't h

Totally! And that's what some of my gigs have been. "We've got a product, we've found a market, and we need to fix some things about the product that we don't have in-house talent to do" On the MVP front, I somewhat agree with you. It all depends on what the product is. I've worked on tech spikes that have involved hardware prototyping, signal processing (both embedded and desktop/mobile), image processing, RF, etc. Those are the types of things where you often can't really "hack it together". I've also worked on simple, e.g., React Native MVPs. The only advantage I might have over a less skilled developer is that I can generally bang those things out quite quickly; in many cases, faster than the business part is ready for (which is likely just wasteful).