Regardless of whether it's true that MVPs need more polish, it's just not true that it's difficult for a product to stay under the radar. The reason Instagram a

Regardless of whether it's true that MVPs need more polish, it's just not true that it's difficult for a product to stay under the radar. The reason Instagram and Path make good examples of companies gaining publicity right at launch is because they happen to be the companies that gained publicity right at launch. You can't really make a counter-example because by definition we haven't heard of the thousands of companies that are still under the radar. I'm sure there are plenty of people on Hacker News (including myself) that would love to have the "problem" of too many people discussing our product on Twitter.