Re:20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilienc...
by corytheboyd on Monday January 04, 2021 @07:55AM
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Very interesting question, I have my own take on an answer.
I would say yes, @mentions make a chat product like slack minimally viable. It is a baseline expectation of a modern chat solution to be able to ping others by name.
However, the minimally viable form of the @mention feature is where you stop. Skip all things that are not “the @mentioned user received a notification when I send the message”
If you disagree with me, please explain why. I don’t at all believe that a Slack MVP that is nothing more than a WebRTC chat demo would be a sellable MVP in 2020. MVP and prototyping seems to be very conflated.
I would say yes, @mentions make a chat product like slack minimally viable. It is a baseline expectation of a modern chat solution to be able to ping others by name.
However, the minimally viable form of the @mention feature is where you stop. Skip all things that are not “the @mentioned user received a notification when I send the message”
If you disagree with me, please explain why. I don’t at all believe that a Slack MVP that is nothing more than a WebRTC chat demo would be a sellable MVP in 2020. MVP and prototyping seems to be very conflated.