minimum viable product
also referred to as: mvp · mvps
12 statements across 10 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Feb 5, 2023 by Marily Nika · across every show →
Everything said about minimum viable product, oldest first
Feb 5, 2023 negative
Nika: Never train AI models for an MVP; fake functionality with prototypes
“Don't do it for your MVP. It makes zero sense. Do not waste time of data scientists that can train models with using powerful machines that are going to take weeks to train. This is because if you have an MVP and you just want to get buy-in for an idea or a fe…”
Apr 9, 2023
Shrivastava: Autonomous vehicles require a fundamentally higher MVP bar due to safety
“The concept of MVP, right, which is so Why be popular in the SaaS product management world or product management world in general has a whole new meaning here at Babel when you work on a product like this, because safety is, is, you know, top of mind for all o…”
May 18, 2023
Early product MVPs should optimize for the problems teams want to have
“Whenever I'm asked by teams what features need to be part of their MVP, how do they decide, you know, which features they need to ship first and whatever. I always tell them to optimize for the problems they want to have. You want the problem of customers gett…”
May 21, 2023
Söderström: Novel product paradigms require large MVPs to avoid false negatives
“The hardest thing about this is if you're trying something completely new, The MVP needs to be very big so you can build a new UI, but if you didn't do algorithms for a single item feed, you can't tell if it was the right idea, but poor machine learning, right…”
Jul 2, 2023 positive
Zhang: Minimum lovable products must replace MVPs in crowded software markets
“The reason I care so much about minimal level product is because I do think in a world where there are so many different options, it's hard to just be like, Hey, use this thing. It barely meets a quality bar. And so I think this idea of like actually deeply un…”
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Gilad: Most organizations treat MVPs as rebranded beta releases
“One of the patterns I see is that organizations don't know that they can actually learn at a much lower cost. They believe they need to build this elaborate MVP, which is not minimal in any way. And then launch it, and then they will discover it. Basically, it…”
Oct 29, 2023 positive
Oct 29, 2023
Oct 29, 2023
Ries: Difficulty scoping MVPs stems from founders refusing to admit unknowns
“The thing I learned is that if people are having trouble coming with MVP, the problem is usually upstream in the chain of deductive reasoning from the vision down to the MVP. It's like usually people are just not super clear on what do I want to learn, and it'…”
Dec 11, 2024
Belsky: A product's core differentiator must be exceptional at MVP launch
“Whatever you put out, your instinct as a team will always be to iterate from there, and so to also make sure that while it can be the minimum viable version of most things, the thing that distinguishes your product the most needs to be done extraordinarily wel…”
Jul 6, 2025 negative
Shlomo: MVPs are dead because AI ruined user attention spans
“There are some things that I don't believe in is like MVPs first and foremost is like, if you're building something that people will not be able to use or is not good enough, especially these days where it's
It's so much easier to build software, so the attent…”