I’ve often heard MVPs used to describe feature sets—i.e. what features do we need to include in the first release for this to be a useful product to seem people.
The set of all feature sets is discrete, and so it makes much more sense for this to occasionally be black and white.
So MVP for pet food is:
Lost of available pet food.
Option to click on pet food and pay for it online.
Things which may not be part of MVP:
Create accounts
Have baskets
Discounts
Advertising
Yes, but we don’t know what that discrete feature set actually looks like. We have some amount of confidence that a given feature set will be an accurate test, and adding more features increases this confidence.
I don’t know if an MVP is always about testing the waters.
It can also be about getting started earning revenue and getting customers. And so it can mean “What is the minimum set of features, without which there’s nothing even to advertise—this product would have zero advantages over what already exists”
That is sounding to me like it has a similar problem. How do you know when you reach that point of surpassing “zero advantages over what already exists”? Maybe you thought that feature A was unnecessary but it turned out you were wrong. Maybe you thought that the set of features A, B and C was what you needed, when in reality just A and B would have sufficed.
I’ve often heard MVPs used to describe feature sets—i.e. what features do we need to include in the first release for this to be a useful product to seem people.
The set of all feature sets is discrete, and so it makes much more sense for this to occasionally be black and white.
So MVP for pet food is:
Lost of available pet food. Option to click on pet food and pay for it online.
Things which may not be part of MVP:
Create accounts Have baskets Discounts Advertising
Etc.
Yes, but we don’t know what that discrete feature set actually looks like. We have some amount of confidence that a given feature set will be an accurate test, and adding more features increases this confidence.
I don’t know if an MVP is always about testing the waters.
It can also be about getting started earning revenue and getting customers. And so it can mean “What is the minimum set of features, without which there’s nothing even to advertise—this product would have zero advantages over what already exists”
That is sounding to me like it has a similar problem. How do you know when you reach that point of surpassing “zero advantages over what already exists”? Maybe you thought that feature A was unnecessary but it turned out you were wrong. Maybe you thought that the set of features A, B and C was what you needed, when in reality just A and B would have sufficed.