1 being “it barely got finished and barely works”, and 10 being “I had a very polished product”
Ask HN: On a scale from 1-10, how ugly was your MVP?
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Re: Ask HN: On a scale from 1-10, how ugly was your MVP?
#2It was about a 4.5 for me. We had a product that was very barebones but it did what it promised
Re: Ask HN: On a scale from 1-10, how ugly was your MVP?
#3I'd say about a 5. We cared about getting it out there and getting as much feedback as possible from customers. We decided we didn't want to focus on perfecting the UI/UX or even features if it wasn't going to be valuable to our customers. So we'd rather get something janky out there and iterate than spend extra few weeks/months in a bubble.
Re: Ask HN: On a scale from 1-10, how ugly was your MVP?
#4Arguably a MVP for a new product or service could just be a sign up / payment page for a non existent offering. If not enough people try to sign up there's no point building anything.
Would this be 0 or -5 on the scale?
Re: Ask HN: On a scale from 1-10, how ugly was your MVP?
#52.
Crashed three times a day per user. Images were cropped off blogs (with permission), inconsistent branding. It was in the food vertical but the logo was poop brown. But it got 1200 users on the first day, organically.
3 months and about 10k users before we fixed most of the crashes. It was about 5 months before a professional logo and color scheme (though the free logo my friend built for us was much appreciated).
Re: Ask HN: On a scale from 1-10, how ugly was your MVP?
#60 - We didn't have one. Just a landing page. Signed our first 50 clients with just a fancy powerpoint and door to door sales. It was a double sided marketplace so then had to bring those 50 clients to persuade our first "supplier" on the other side to integrate.
We lost a most of these initial clients before we could actually build what we wanted to. But then once complete a lot of them came back. In this phase id rate our MVP as a 7. We already had enough feedback to build something quite useful.
Re: Ask HN: On a scale from 1-10, how ugly was your MVP?
#73.5
Re: Ask HN: On a scale from 1-10, how ugly was your MVP?
#8easily a 4 - Co-Founder felt embarrassed trying to show it to clients but it worked and people could give us money. knocked it out in like 2 months. - now we're 2 years in, still here.
Re: Ask HN: On a scale from 1-10, how ugly was your MVP?
#9MVP was like a 2 when it started making real money but even 5 years into it, I would say we are at like a 7 in my opinion. Not sure if we ever will hit a 10 or even a 9 in terms of shine and polish:)
Re: Ask HN: On a scale from 1-10, how ugly was your MVP?
#10I saved the screenshots https://histre.com/blog/history/ ;)