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Chris Messina

Do you agree with Linear that it's time to rethink the MVP?

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I agree that the MVP is a journey, and not a one-time validation event, and that continuous iteration is necessary to refine the product into a competitive offering in existing markets. I found the emphasis on using a waitlist strategically to collect targeted feedback from specific tranches of early adopters a solid recommendation. Given this, it tracks that when you narrow your target audience, you can be more selective and intentional on how you deploy resources. By leveraging deep understanding of specific user needs, you can create significant value compared with the competition. Is this similar or different to your approach?
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Julian Paul
I think so. Taking a product takes time to build tbh. Even today. But getting a Carrd or Framer one-pager up and running even with a domain redirect to gather waitlist emails and then ask them questions either via email or form is better than just not having that at all. Waitlists are a good way solve for the cold start problem. The MVP or Alpha version of a product comes after... it's what we're seeing on https://early.tools – it's more of a linear (no pun intended) progression of graduating from one phase to the next of building. Waitlists are the easiest way to get started whilst you build a product for weeks or months if it takes longer. Really recommend looking at https://early.tools (which I am building). So many early products on there that are using waitlists. Just makes sense tbh @chrismessina!
Robert Novak
Agree Chris
Oleg ⚡️
This sounds similar to building off the market. In that case, developing hypotheses and identifying a narrow niche of customers or users' pain points of similar products or specific customer behavior makes sense. Effectively, the product is built on customer feedback. It took two and a half years to get the Airtable out of stealth, and it was invite-only back then with a focus on "crowd-sourcing" unique ways to use the platform and encouraging creativity. And Notion started as a community on Reddit. These companies sell a lot of B2B, but B2C acquisition worked as a channel to bigger sales. It is the same as Slack's/Dropbox's critical number of team members of a company/team when the enterprise purchases the software. However, not all companies are in the same category of product's ability for PLG. Using this or a different approach depends on a given startup's unique situation and environment: a combination of a team, idea, resources, and luck.
Halimat Aderoju
I agreed
Alexis Riols
Agree the MVP approach helps to fast track the creation process of a new product without market fit well defined. That's allow to quickly validate hypothesis and knowledge gap instead of spending months to build advanced product without market adoption validation. Into big product MVP are also used as Beta to apply this approach to new features launches.
André J
One stage boatloads the next. That's how I think of it. At each stage you should create enough value to get to the next stage.
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