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18. The Do's and Don'ts of the Minimum Viable Product

The Bootstrapped Founder

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How to Create a Minimum Viable MVP

A minimum viable product should contain a few structural components to make it usable by your audience. A well-designed interface is easy for an MVP because if you only solve one core problem, there won't be too much potential for confusion. All software is an imperfect approximation of a solution to a less than well-defined set of requirements and that's fine. It just has to prove that your core functionality solves your audience's critical problem well enough.

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