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Why we picked it "Ship ugly" and "wait until it's good" are not the only two options, and this piece gives you the vocabulary to tell them apart: minimum viable (does it work at all) versus minimum lovable (does anyone actually want to keep using it). It is practical about which rough edges are acceptable at the start and which quietly kill you, so you cut the right corners instead of every corner. Use it as a checklist for what "half-working" can and cannot include.
MLP vs MVP: Which Should You Build First (and Why)?
From Eleken by Eleken ~8 min read
- A viable product can be rough as long as the core job it does works reliably; a lovable one adds just enough care that early users come back and tell others.
- Cut polish and breadth early, but do not cut the one thing your product exists to do well, that is the edge you cannot ship broken.
- The real target behind both is product-market fit, so choose the leaner or the more polished path based on how crowded your market is and how high your users' expectations already are.