Re:New Website Builds Minimum Viable Products for Startups
by rmc on Thursday August 12, 2010 @10:40AM
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A mockup can be a MVP. A MVP is just there to attract potential customers and make them 'sign up' (e.g. an 'I'm interested' email)
Re:New Website Builds Minimum Viable Products for Startups
by dpritchett on Thursday August 12, 2010 @11:05AM
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I like it. I'm guessing you're going to crank out quick Rails skeleton sites to Heroku? This is a good service and i see nothing wrong with people using your sketched out web apps to begin the customer validation process.
If Tim Ferriss can test an idea with a non-functional landing page and a few hundred dollars in adwords, surely your service is at least as viable.
You state that you can build a functional product in 2-3 hours? I call bullshit.
I mean - I know programmers are notoriously optimistic, but that's just getting ridiculous.
Unless you mean that you can throw together a mock-up, but that's not an MVP in my book.