> Your competition is no longer non-software solutions. It's probably existing, but sub-optimal software. Which means if you're going to compete with it, your s

> Your competition is no longer non-software solutions. It's probably existing, but sub-optimal software. Which means if you're going to compete with it, your software needs to be significantly better. This depends highly on your target niche though. Beyond what the author mentions in terms of competition, I think higher quality MVPs are demanded for another reason: as the state of our tooling improves, the product of those tools will be expected to have improved as well. Iterating is faster with interpreted languages compared to compiled languages. Libraries make it near effortless to add features like social login, we have entire ecosystems of templating (things like Tailwind). AI has lowered the barrier for graphic generation and other elements that were once deemed "nice to haves".