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  • anthonyrieraOPBtoSide Project@indiehackers.spaceAre MVPs dead?
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    1 year ago

    100% agree with that, but the common thing to see online is: just ship it fast, do not wait on small details like design / ux / branding which is in my opinion wrong.

    Selling a product is like everything: storytelling, centered on the user. Except this user maybe lived this story X times, making them more difficult to convince.

    Love your analogy with the coffee shop, I agree with you, my point really is: the bar is so much higher than before now for “MVPs”






  • anthonyrieraOPBtoSide Project@indiehackers.spaceAre MVPs dead?
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    That’s a very good exemple and thanks for pointing out OpenAI’s exemple.

    Let’s say you would like now to create something like openAI (which is a massive undertaking of course).

    The level in this field of UX and user expectation is so high, that people would dismiss your offering until your reach a given level.

    This is kind of my point, if you’re trying to do a SaaS, there is an expectation from the users, even if not told directly.



  • anthonyrieraOPBtoSide Project@indiehackers.spaceAre MVPs dead?
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    Minimum viable product, but to me an MVP must be a product that solve a problem well enough to validate a first hypothesis.

    But not all problems are made equal, let’s take Uber: what was their MVP like then?

    Now, create a competitor of Uber now: What needs to be done to be called a MVP?

    Efforts aren’t the same than before, this is my point and something that I’m feeling when building my SaaS, users are expecting a lot even in the early days.


  • anthonyrieraOPBtoSide Project@indiehackers.spaceAre MVPs dead?
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    MVP are often associated with something that just work “enough” to validate your idea, the thing is, most people in their subconscious are used to a given polished experience and you can quickly lose a lot of people if done wrong

    It like a wrong note in a song, you can feel it