anthonyriera

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[–] anthonyriera@alien.top 1 points 11 months 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"

[–] anthonyriera@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It should LOOK but also FEEL great, there is nothing worst than a broken experience :)

The onboarding must be nailed straight of the bat

[–] anthonyriera@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

This is exactly how I see creating new product, you said it perfectly!

Building solid base and system that allows to ship simple features with a future proof UX

[–] anthonyriera@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

True, what about starting a product in a niche with existing players? How would an MVP makes sense while others offer most likely way more features?

The only way is to have something better, this comes from a really well though UX / features

[–] anthonyriera@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

100% agreed, from my saas https://breeew.com I coded everything using NextJS/Tailwind and based on shadcn.

I was able to go super super fast with a really good UX / UI

[–] anthonyriera@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

That's a very good exemple and thanks for pointing out OpenAI's exemple.

Let's say you would like now to create something like openAI (which is a massive undertaking of course).

The level in this field of UX and user expectation is so high, that people would dismiss your offering until your reach a given level.

This is kind of my point, if you're trying to do a SaaS, there is an expectation from the users, even if not told directly.

[–] anthonyriera@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Totally agree! MVP should be about one thing, but one feature can be a massive undertaking itself.

[–] anthonyriera@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Minimum viable product, but to me an MVP must be a product that solve a problem well enough to validate a first hypothesis.

But not all problems are made equal, let's take Uber: what was their MVP like then?

Now, create a competitor of Uber now: What needs to be done to be called a MVP?

Efforts aren't the same than before, this is my point and something that I'm feeling when building my SaaS, users are expecting a lot even in the early days.

[–] anthonyriera@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

MVP are often associated with something that just work "enough" to validate your idea, the thing is, most people in their subconscious are used to a given polished experience and you can quickly lose a lot of people if done wrong

It like a wrong note in a song, you can feel it

 

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?

 

Hey everyone,

I've got to share this with you because, honestly, it's been a wild ride.

6 month ago, I was all in on the crypto wave, working hard and feeling like I was on the cutting edge.

Then the market crashed, few months later, I was out of job.

I felt it coming, with all the massive tech layoffs, I knew I needed to diversify my incomes. This is when my flatmate told me about a guy running a design agency by himself and was doing crazy numbers.

I think we all know the story of Brett from designjoy.co and his productized service.

Think of it like a (very expensive) gym membership but for design. People sign up, pay monthly, and get a set amount of design work. It seemed so straightforward, and I thought, "Hey, I could do this with web development.”

So I took Brett’s course and joined his community to learn how he was doing it and start my own venture with all the right cards in hand.

But getting started wasn't a walk in the park… As a software engineer, seing that you’d need to connected dozen of different tools to run your agency to finally offer a shattered experience to your subscribers was unthinkable.

After talking with a lot of different people trying to start a productized service, I decided to work on making this process easier and accessible to all.

That's when I decided to build https://breeew.com. It's a simple platform, but I’m proud of it!

It helps you create and manage productized services, it essentially reproduce DesignJoy workflow but from a single place, you never need to do any manual action, everything is automatically managed for you. (I spent a lot of time on making the perfect UX)

Anyway, fast forward to today, I actually started by own productized service (liberto.dev) and generate $8K monthly recurring revenue.

It's not just the money (though that's pretty sweet), it's the feeling of being my own boss that's truly priceless.

I know a lot of you out there are hustling hard, maybe feeling a bit stuck or looking for a side gig that could turn into something more. I'm telling you, if I can do it, so can you. 😅

You've got the skills; you just need to put them out there in the right way.

If you're curious about how I made it work or just want to bounce around some ideas, I'm here for it. Let's help each other out.

And hey, if you want to see how https://breeew.com could work for you, go take a look. I built it to help people just like us get ahead.

Catch you later,

Anthony

P.S. Really, go check out https://breeew.com or hit me up. Let's make things happen.