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In my experience from building the 191st uptime monitor (+ site speed & puppeteer checks), MVPs don't work for established product ideas. Customers expect poli
by rozenmd 5y ago
In my experience from building the 191st uptime monitor (+ site speed & puppeteer checks), MVPs don't work for established product ideas.
Customers expect polish, and they expect a lot more functionality than the bare minimum.
For context, I kept a twitter thread detailing what I worked on, and when the customers started coming: https://twitter.com/RozenMD/status/1364881512500404224?s=20 https://twitter.com/RozenMD/status/1364881512500404224?s=20
- Bjartr 5y ago> Customers expect polish, and they expect a lot more functionality than the bare minimum. That's why it's the minimum viable product, and not the bare minimum product. Determining what's needed for viability is an important part of the MVP design process.
- mLuby 5y agoYou're right, but there's a point at which "minimum" is no longer appropriate. I'd expect an "MVP" for an electric car company like Tesla Motors to be a microcar, but instead it was a luxury sports car. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster