Not really sure how this advice is still relevant since Facebook with its own app store model helped save the tech industry in 2007 from the downturn like the o

Not really sure how this advice is still relevant since Facebook with its own app store model helped save the tech industry in 2007 from the downturn like the one in 2001-3. The next big thing appears to be AI (not VR), but I don't really see how it can really compete with that historic low cost startup. What would a MVP AI even look like? Would it only be a good AI part of the time? We already have that. Try using Siri. > That was the task for some Stanford students in the fall of 2007, in what became known here as the “Facebook Class.” > The students ended up getting millions of users for free apps that they designed to run on Facebook. And, as advertising rolled in, some of those students started making far more money than their professors. > “Everything was happening so fast,” recalls Joachim De Lombaert, now 23. His team’s app netted $3,000 a day and morphed into a company that later sold for a six-figure sum. > Early on, the Facebook Class became a microcosm of Silicon Valley. Working in teams of three, the 75 students created apps that collectively had 16 million users in just 10 weeks. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/technology/08class.html https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/technology/08class.html