I got 400 signups with a video of a product that didn’t exist

Re:I got 400 signups with a video of a product that didn’t e... by satvikpendem on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @12:12PM (#23771277)

I don't think so. Look at the other comments replying to my thread. The definition of MVP can mean finding the fastest way to validate with the least effort, as Eric Ries is quoted in the other comment. Perhaps at one point MVP did literally mean the smallest usable product but now the product does not necessarily need to be usable, it just has to validate a hypothesis.

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Re:I got 400 signups with a video of a product that didn’t e... by PaulStatezny on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:04AM (#23788032)

Edit: Agree to disagree.

/shrug

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Re:I got 400 signups with a video of a product that didn’t e... by satvikpendem on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:20AM (#23791179)

> And a WIP can mean something I haven't even started on yet. /s

> You're twisting the meaning of the words in the acronym. I really don't care, but it renders the words meaningless to use them that way.

Again, I'm not sure how to explain that MVP does not literally mean an actual product. It's a tool for hypothesis testing, you don't spend time and energy building out your entire product before you show something to customers, that would be a waste of time and energy. That's why I, and others, define MVP as anything that let's you understand something new about your market and eventually you use that knowledge to make a product.

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