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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?

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Post by coreymaass »

Since we're including our personal projects :-) I built the Birdy over a weekend. http://thebirdy.com A couple weeks have gone by and it's going strong with hundreds of users. I've added a few features, and fixed a few bugs, but otherwise, it's as I built it.

Re: Ask HN: What are some great examples of a Minimum Viable Product?

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Post by adjwilli »

illdave wrote: post #37
MattBearman wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've got an awesome designer lined up to do a complete redesign/re-brand when I have the time/money to see it through. Having said that, I've had a lot of compliments on the theme, and for $20, I've got no complaints :)

I actually think that design looks really good - don't forget, people that read HackerNews may be more inclined to see these sorts of themes around (as they're usually used by people just launching a product to see if there's any interest). Most users might not see the same theme that often, if at all.

I think the Hacker News people are probably the target audience for BugMuncher. But in any case, the design is fine. I'm actually impressed it was only $20.

Re: Ask HN: What are some great examples of a Minimum Viable Product?

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Post by revorad »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #36
dools wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For cueyoutube - there's no backend! It's just a static page with some JavaScript on it (mostly jQuery but totally hacked together because I can't stand JavaScript :) I actually copied and pasted most of it from other sources (which I've listed on the page). The playlists are "saved" by sharing them - each playlist exists only as a URL containing a comma separated list of video IDs. I've been sharing on Twitter using…

I love this design strategy -- used the same one for http://hn-books.com Why code a back-end if you don't need one? You can get away with a lot more than you think you can just with a static page and the browser. With hn-books the book list exists as a static JSON file. I can put my entire site on any kind of web server -- even run it easily offline.

Wow, really? I would have never guessed HN-books is all client-side, but that does explain the jumpiness of the UI.

Re: Ask HN: What are some great examples of a Minimum Viable Product?

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Post by adjwilli »

methodin wrote: post #6

I've always thought that Instagram was an MVP. I do not have an iPhone, however, so I'm not sure if the app itself follows that mentality or not.

It might have started off that way. I didn't download it until recently. But nowadays it has all sorts of social networking features I think would disqualify it from being an MVP.

Re: Ask HN: What are some great examples of a Minimum Viable Product?

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Post by bane »

I'll be absolutely shameless and plug our two services, Momentomail and Wormwall (http://www.kymalabs.com). Momentomail is a bit more mature since it's older. But when we first launched it, the entire site wasn't much more than a login page and the "Schedule an email" interface.

We made Lifehacker (after only adding a couple more things) not too long after that.

Wormwall likewise is about as basic a web authoring system as you can get. A WYSIWYG editor and a publish button. Nothing fancy.

We have well over a thousand users now.

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