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How to Build an MVP for Less Than $10,000 (And You Should, Too)

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Re: How to Build an MVP for Less Than $10,000 (And You Should, Too)

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brianwawok wrote: post #2

So he threw ~6k at a random but famous designer, ~3k at a random developer, and got a MVP that works. No idea if the product was successful, but assuming it was - he won the lotto. I bet if 100 people each threw 6k at a designer and 3k at a developer for the same exact product.. about 90-95 of them would not work, or be complete trash. It seems really hard for a non developer to build a MVP. (I am a developer so not…

Yeah I don't know what extremely talented reliable developer only charged 3k for a good finished MVP product. That sort of guy is kind of a moron or a fluke, and extremely difficult to find.

Re: How to Build an MVP for Less Than $10,000 (And You Should, Too)

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Post by mittya_original »

devoply wrote: post #11
brianwawok wrote: post #2

So he threw ~6k at a random but famous designer, ~3k at a random developer, and got a MVP that works. No idea if the product was successful, but assuming it was - he won the lotto. I bet if 100 people each threw 6k at a designer and 3k at a developer for the same exact product.. about 90-95 of them would not work, or be complete trash. It seems really hard for a non developer to build a MVP. (I am a developer so not…

Yeah I don't know what extremely talented reliable developer only charged 3k for a good finished MVP product. That sort of guy is kind of a moron or a fluke, and extremely difficult to find.

It's called outsourcing to Russia! You can get amazing devs for 15$ / hour...

Re: How to Build an MVP for Less Than $10,000 (And You Should, Too)

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Post by mittya_original »

brianwawok wrote: post #4
randomgyatwork wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the article there is a link to this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16mWB0J91JQJw0uhQZ1Kq...

Ah, so $0 income. So a MVP that doesn't get a paying customer is not a success to me. Getting 1 or 2 paying customers, even $20, to me validates that people will pay for it. So far, he is 13.5k in the hole for no confirmed paying customers... so still seems an expensive experiment.

Yes, there are no paying customer yet. So what?

Re: How to Build an MVP for Less Than $10,000 (And You Should, Too)

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Post by mittya_original »

wjnc wrote: post #8
saycheese wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What exactly do you want to do and why?

Let others build an MVP without technical skills. How do I break up plans and requirements in bits, so that the chances of success of the contractors rises? How to select contractors? Should I define a stack, or let contractors decoder? Etc. These are obv. the questions OP answers, but as GP points out you need a lot more information to assess the risks in such steps. I wouldn't want to have the next post "How I blew…

We already got lots of in return, even if there is no revenue yet.

Re: How to Build an MVP for Less Than $10,000 (And You Should, Too)

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Post by mittya_original »

brianwawok wrote: post #2

So he threw ~6k at a random but famous designer, ~3k at a random developer, and got a MVP that works. No idea if the product was successful, but assuming it was - he won the lotto. I bet if 100 people each threw 6k at a designer and 3k at a developer for the same exact product.. about 90-95 of them would not work, or be complete trash. It seems really hard for a non developer to build a MVP. (I am a developer so not…

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Re: How to Build an MVP for Less Than $10,000 (And You Should, Too)

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Zachery wrote: post #6

Re: clever.do as a whole I wasn't aware of Clever.do, and trying it out. So far it looks nice. Can I just comment that the tutorial kind of hides things (without being obvious that it is hiding things). I was wondering where a task I added went, and it didn't show until the tutorial screens were completed.

Thanks mate, we're going to work on it!

Re: How to Build an MVP for Less Than $10,000 (And You Should, Too)

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mittya_original wrote: post #13
devoply wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I don't know what extremely talented reliable developer only charged 3k for a good finished MVP product. That sort of guy is kind of a moron or a fluke, and extremely difficult to find.

It's called outsourcing to Russia! You can get amazing devs for 15$ / hour...

Ah. That makes a lot of sense.
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