Paul Graham, investor, and co-founder of the startup incubator/accelerator Y Combinator, once said: “Make something people want. That’s the fundamental problem. If you die (as a business), it’s probably because you didn’t make something enough people wanted.”
MVP stands for the minimum viable product. It’s the bare minimum you can get away with while still giving people enough value that they view you as a solution to their problem. Here’s one of the best visual examples of a minimum viable product:
The minimum viable product is tasty. It satisfies your sweet tooth and your hunger! After achieving these basic goals and confirming that the doughnut is something people want, you can start launching different flavors.
Minimum Viable Product
Product Vision
The same philosophy works when you’re building your MVP. Start with a product that is going to help your users achieve a set number of goals; from there, you can add features to make the product more robust. But what do those features look like? What type of sprinkles and icing do you plan on adding to your product a year, two years or three years from now?
In GARDAR we offer MVP in two levels, the first is by building a strong interactive prototype that reflects the App 100% from design, functions to the way that user experience the live App in future. That step will allow all business owners to share the App idea in the early stages and take all the feedback they want whether from customers, stakeholders, shareholders or any other parties
Your bare minimum initial goals and the specific features you’ll add over time are what you should be thinking about when putting together a product roadmap. A product roadmap is a plan that matches short-term and long-term business goals with the various technical and designs efforts that will help you meet those goals. The roadmap isn’t typically set in stone—it’s a more versatile plan that acts as a visualization of where you want the product to go. It’s a living document, so to speak.
Flexibility is key. Because everyone has a plan until that the plan is met with real customers. And then you start to learn things about your product that you didn’t even think of when you first created it. You gain a better understanding of the problem you’re solving and exactly how people view your product as a part of the solution. To get this kind of insight after building your product the roadmap, conduct user testing. And that where the second level of MVP GARDAR will initiate as a live App to conduct user testing on it.
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