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MVPs are not that you provide crappy UI/UX. It is about filtering all unnecessary features and giving only the core one. So you are focusing specifically on the 1-2 features your service can't live without and make it work well.
Totally agree! MVP should be about one thing, but one feature can be a massive undertaking itself.
The "one thing" can be a $5M thing (to build) for some products/industries, and a $1000 thing for others. Numbers are totally arbitrary here - the point is that the MVP does just the essential for that pain point.
How much did the Chat GPT MVP cost?
How much did the Gumroad MVP cost?
Etc...
yea to add to these, i've had a multiple profitable online businesses.
MVPs are very much alive and kickin.
more popular than ever.
but you probably can't tell the difference between MVP and launched product.
Everything has gotten so accessible people will build full fledged brands and launch them, just no infrastructure or minimal infrastructure on the backend.
for something as simple as a teeth whiteneing product like trysnow.com or a business service like explodingideas.co there's tons of examples of companies that started with mvp.
for saas too.
i mean look at theranos, elizabeth didn't even have an MVP and did a deal with walgreens.
that gives you everything you need to know tbh.