Personal bias, but http://chatvoting.com is my latest MVP. There are a ton of features I want to add, but it does exactly what I originally intended.
If you want massively successful MVPs, twitter is probably the king.
Ask HN: What are some great examples of a Minimum Viable Product?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some great examples of a Minimum Viable Product?
#12As we seem to be allowing a personal bias, I'll submit my MVP - http://bugmuncher.com
I've built the minimum in order to get it live in 2 weeks. I've got a HUGE list of features to add in future, including customisation, multiple highlights, automate the subscription process, API, etc.
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#13The very first iPhone. I feel like sometimes people confuse Minimum Viable Product with Minimum Sellable Product. That is, MVP is not about building the smallest thing that someone will pay you money for. It's about cutting out all the pieces that might fall onto the 20 side of the Pareto principle. It's about resolving any 50-50 decisions by picking one way and going with it, instead of quibbling over which way is t…
Thanks for the great example of a physical MVP.
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#14Groupon
"Groupon 1.0 started on a WordPress blog"
http://www.tomloverro.com/2010/08/19/groupon-1-0-started-on-...
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#15CD Baby just started out with some links to purchase albums IIRC. Derek then manually filled orders and sent items out.
I'm finding more and more apps and services started out with key parts of the eventual back end initially being processed manually.
Re: Ask HN: What are some great examples of a Minimum Viable Product?
#16As we seem to be allowing a personal bias, I'll submit my MVP - http://bugmuncher.com I've built the minimum in order to get it live in 2 weeks. I've got a HUGE list of features to add in future, including customisation, multiple highlights, automate the subscription process, API, etc.
Hey no problem with sharing your own as far as I'm concerened. Looks like a great MVP and I'll be interested to see how your own feedback leads the direction of any future features you have planned.
What tools, frameworks, languages did you use?
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#17Well, I'm obviously pretty biased here because I made it, but I really enjoy using http://cueyoutube.com/ It was a "sunday night" project, and the first thing I've ever done where I thought I did just the right amount of work and no more. It hasn't, like, gone viral or anything but has a few likes and a few people using it - who knows maybe some more will use it. But it was a great feeling - to really get something u…
Nice work.
What language, platform, framework did you use?
Re: Ask HN: What are some great examples of a Minimum Viable Product?
#18Square, really simple device with no extra features.
Re: Ask HN: What are some great examples of a Minimum Viable Product?
#19Personal bias, but http://chatvoting.com is my latest MVP. There are a ton of features I want to add, but it does exactly what I originally intended. If you want massively successful MVPs, twitter is probably the king.
How did you decide which feature(s) to go with and which to leave out?
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#2086-DOS, aka Quick and Dirty Disk Operating System, which was sold to MicroSoft famously, was designed to duplicate C/PM's operating system API's. As the story goes, all the money was in the hardware as software so easy to copy. Look up the history of FCopy on the C64 to see just how prevalent it was on the much higher volume platform of the day, Commodore.
Cool! Another reason why web/tech startups should focus on doing one thing really well.