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Arguably 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?
http://web.archive.org/web/20071115235344/http://www.s3stat....
I'd call that a solid 1.
- 99designs logo
- $10 template
- Handmade graphics (from screenshots of Webalizer, no less)
The product itself was literally Webalizer reports, along with some quick and dirty forms to input enough information so that we could generate those reports (running directly on the webserver, of course), and a list view to link back to them.
Note the $1/month pricing, and no mechanism to actually charge credit cards to collect said dollar.
But a lot of people signed up, and some of them are still around 13 years later.
2. 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).
Judge for yourself: http://web.archive.org/web/20071115235344/http://www.s3stat.... I'd call that a solid 1. - 99designs logo - $10 template - Handmade graphics (from screenshots of Webalizer, no less) The product itself was literally Webalizer reports, along with some quick and dirty forms to input enough information so that we could generate those reports (running directly on the webserver, of course), and a list v…
Judge for yourself: http://web.archive.org/web/20071115235344/http://www.s3stat.... I'd call that a solid 1. - 99designs logo - $10 template - Handmade graphics (from screenshots of Webalizer, no less) The product itself was literally Webalizer reports, along with some quick and dirty forms to input enough information so that we could generate those reports (running directly on the webserver, of course), and a list v…
That is really cool, out of interest did it ever make money?
Backend currently is a 6 and frontend is a 2. A lot of what it does revolves around automated analysis and various optimization problems, so the backend is minimal but it has plenty of validation and testing (integration testing and fuzz testing)
Frontend is very basic at this stage since I don't want to bother with CSS at this time (I'm the only person who mechanically knows how things work at this stage, do I'm trying to leave styling and polishing to somebody else on the team).
Will probably take a landing page approach and have a sign up for some sort of private beta
I'd call it 0 because it isn't even available yet.
It's hella simple but it works. It actually works great. People understand what we're building right away and are signing up, giving us feedback.
One really doesn't need fancy stuff. Just launch fast.
2. 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).
Wow! Care to share what site this was?
I sold the whole company though, together with the app, IP, content, etc. They decided not to maintain it, so it's shut down now.