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IMO mvp should be 1 feature

• walesj 7y ago
  What if that 1 feature alone isn't useful to customers? For example, they explicitly say (after your 1 feature MVP): "this is great! but we can only use it after we have all those 4 features we asked."
  • nostrademons 7y ago
    Most likely there isn't a business there. If prospective customers say "We can only use it after we have these other 4 features", then chances are, when you build those 4 features, they'll say "we need these other 5 features and then maybe it'll be useful". There are some exceptions, and some really prominent startups (eg. Reddit, AirBnB, and Twitch) that took off after adding certain features, but usually they had an initial version that was halfway-promising, and they decided on the additional features by observing what people were trying to accomplish with the product rather than by asking people. There are other companies (eg. Instagram, Whatsapp, AirBnB again) that became popular by taking away features. Typically what's going on with the "We need X, Y, and Z first" crowd is that people start comparing your product to existing products in the space, and then suggesting all the other features they have. If you start going down that path, you'll never catch up, because by the time you implement them, the product your chasing will have implemented new stuff. You need to enter new markets where there isn't a standard competitor that you'll be measured against - but that means that a good number of ideas you'll think up won't actually be useful.