Re:How to Build an MVP App Without Writing Code
by dahart on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:03PM
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> it's just too tempting to build first because you can "see the future" of the product, as opposed to the foggy marketing side of things.
Exactly! That's exactly what I did, and my mistake has given me a much greater appreciation for marketing. For me, getting to the right value proposition has been far harder than figuring out whether a market exists.
Teller's got a pretty interesting point. I suspect your conjecture is right, that there is always a way to test without much engineering. Maybe these are two different answers to two different questions.
It can be true that there's a market, and still have a product and execution that fails to tap that market. Teller's point is perhaps more about execution - he said that any given magic trick won't work until the performance is perfected. If you break the illusion on a practice version, the trick is a complete failure.
I'm not sure, but maybe the analogy is that you can do market validation without engineering, and find that a market exists, but you still won't know if your idea will be a successful business until after it's a successful business.
Exactly! That's exactly what I did, and my mistake has given me a much greater appreciation for marketing. For me, getting to the right value proposition has been far harder than figuring out whether a market exists.
Teller's got a pretty interesting point. I suspect your conjecture is right, that there is always a way to test without much engineering. Maybe these are two different answers to two different questions.
It can be true that there's a market, and still have a product and execution that fails to tap that market. Teller's point is perhaps more about execution - he said that any given magic trick won't work until the performance is perfected. If you break the illusion on a practice version, the trick is a complete failure.
I'm not sure, but maybe the analogy is that you can do market validation without engineering, and find that a market exists, but you still won't know if your idea will be a successful business until after it's a successful business.