Ask HN: Is the MVP required in this case?

Re:Ask HN: Is the MVP required in this case? by codingdave on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:57AM (#30101299)

If you are coming into an existing market, then you aren't building an MVP to validate the idea, you are building an MVP to match the table stakes -- the feature set that is the minimum set of features that even put you as a viable player in the market. Match that in an MVP, then add on your differentiators.

I've watched teams focus on differentiators before table stakes, and waste literally millions of dollars and years of work, expecting one or two cool features to win the market... but that is not how it works.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the MVP required in this case? by fben on Thursday January 27, 2022 @11:48AM (#30102792)

Thanks for your opinion, I think the right thing to do is to focus on products that have small table stakes, so the MVP won't take a lot of time to build, even adding a few extra features, and therefore, we can enter the market quickly like a good player

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