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Are MVPs dead? (alien.top)
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I can't help myself to think that nowadays, products UX/UI level is so high, that even for B2B products, people have expectations.

I would certainly not use a product that looks and feels crappy even if it solves my needs.

I could possibly don't see how it solves my needs if it does it in a crappy way too.

What are your thoughts?

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[–] elansx@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you have wrong idea about MVP. Let's say we are making coffee shop as a business. To build MVP you still need great location, awesome interior, few amazing coffee options, smiling and welcoming staff and great prices. In MVP you can leave out "wouldn't that be awesome if we had" things, like free wifi, comfy puffs, all kind of coffees, pastries and ice creams. You can't build MVP in crappy place, location and serve bad coffee.

MVP is functional, easy to use main product, without extras, to ship it faster and validate market. You add fancy features later.

[–] anthonyriera@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100% agree with that, but the common thing to see online is: just ship it fast, do not wait on small details like design / ux / branding which is in my opinion wrong.

Selling a product is like everything: storytelling, centered on the user. Except this user maybe lived this story X times, making them more difficult to convince.

Love your analogy with the coffee shop, I agree with you, my point really is: the bar is so much higher than before now for "MVPs"

[–] elansx@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

True, i totally agree with you, but the bar ia higher in everything. Even in offline businesses, back in the days you could open any business in your garage, now you need a whole legal team to handle and get all licenses, permits and other stuff before you can even start something.