So I was excited, I have this very need and was going to load up a chat server. But there already is a site, great, and I'll use that (I'm into not reinventing the wheel) instead of investing my time (at more than $5/hour).

Sadly it's a landing page. I agree, it's not really an MVP, it's a landing page that should say "Coming soon". I have some leftover AOL "Under Construction" gifs I can send you.

After I go set my chat server up.....

As others have pointed out, this is a pretty misleading headline, there is no MVP at all. just a silly landing page to gauge interest.

Maybe this is why we have so many useless start-ups? some guy makes a landing page, sends it to his friends, they sign up cause they feel obligated to, he robs his parents investment accounts, calls then 'angels' and away we go....

Factoring in your time, this is more like an $1100+ MVP. That's great if your idea is pure software with < 10 hours of development time.

My laundry-list of MVPs includes many that just can't be done in less than 80+ man-hours, and would need actual design work as well, because there's actually different views involved in the application.

Just out of personal curiosity, I would love to see the Fiverr supplied logo that he rejected to see how bad it really was.

Hm, the landing page states "No signup, no registration." yet the popup once clicking "Create a Room Now" prompts you with "Sign up to know when we launch:"

Might be better to revise the copy to reflect it.

I've always been interested in the "landing-page-no-product" way of validating an idea.

I'd like to see a follow-up to it were the product was made and those clients that signed up originally were still around for it.

I don't think you can count this as MVP since it doesn't do anything thus it's not really a "product".

Maybe it's a minimum viable promotion.