Building the Product
Building your MVP
Build the smallest thing that tests the biggest risk.
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What actually counts as an MVP, and what's the smallest one I can get away with?
An MVP is the least you can build (or fake) to test your single riskiest assumption, not a shrunken version of your dream product. Ask 'what's the ...
Should I build an MVP at all, or can I validate without one?
If you haven't talked to ~20-30 potential customers yet, don't build anything, you're not validating, you're procrastinating in code. A concierge M...
I'm non-technical and can't afford a developer. Can I ship a real MVP with no-code tools, or will that trap me later?
You can absolutely ship and even get paying users on no-code (Bubble, Glide, Softr, plus Airtable and Zapier), and for most first tests the migrati...
I want to test my idea before writing any code. What actually is a landing-page or concierge MVP and how do I run one right?
A landing-page MVP sells the promise and measures who clicks buy or signs up; a concierge MVP delivers the service manually behind the scenes while...