I've been hacking for a couple years now and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that most projects fail.
But the benefit of failing a lot is that you get faster at failing over time! My first project took me 6 months to bring to market, and it didn't work! For my new project usepulse.io the cycle has been a little over a month.
Here's the stack I used with the timeline:
-Ideate based on problems I've faced in past failed projects
-Use freelancers to design a website in Figma and implement it in Webflow
-Do some (bad) UX mockups myself and make Loom videos explaining the project and get a designer to make a UI mockup.
-Then use the mockups as a basis for a really basic MVP!
-That's it!
I'm still finishing up the web app (should be done this weekend) but so grateful for everything I've learned from this community on this journey. Haven't had big successes yet, but hopefully this will be the one :)
If you use Slack for your remote team and want to automate 1-on-1s, daily updates, morale surveys, or project updates, join my waitlist or DM me and I'll get you into the free Beta!
If you have any feedback or suggestions let me know: usepulse.io
Nice! I have learned the same thing. First product took almost a year, second one was about 6 months, and its been getting shorter since.
At least we take something away from our failures :)
I always try to keep that in mind...the failures help too
I'm on my first project and definitely thought long and hard about how much time I want to spend building an MVP. I have a big vision for my project but plan on taking it slow and building it one step at a time. My main focus is MVP but also raising awareness so I'm building in public on Twitter. I'm not the social type but I'm managing, I think 🙂
Good luck!
Same...building in public feels awkward, but you have to get the word out somehow
I think the strategy is really good:
Just trying to scrap for product market fit
I have a remote team of my own, and I can't tell you how hard it is to keep up to date for everyone. I was just thinking the other day how awesome it'd be if there was an automated way to get feedback from my team - and I guess other people share that problem too! Definitely DMing you about this beta and will make sure I'm top 10 on that waitlist to get a year free 😤 An inspiring story @Swishhhh19 and best of luck with getting the product ready for thousands of global remote teams. My heart is literally 'pulse'ating at the thought of getting in early to the future of remote work 😉🚀
Can't wait to be a part of the beta!
Hey I appreciate it!
Nice! Good model to use. How much did it cost to get to your mvp?
All in probably 2,500
Impressive! Speed is a huge advantage, not only do you avoid wasting time if it fails but you are also able to start getting feedback (both direct and indirect) faster. Good luck with the project!
This is so true. We followed a similar process with our company TaskGrid and quickly discovered that our initial idea of an "MVP" was gigantic. Ironically, the tool we built also helped us distill the highest value features into our MVP release which saved us a ton of time. We had to slim it down so much and run as lean as possible. Following the steps you outlined definitely saves you months or even years of busywork that may not yield any results. Thanks for the tips 👍
Great model. I’m interested in how hands off you are in the design / implementation.
Your approach sounds high leveraged, but I see myself getting caught up in old habits.
What’s your all-in cost for an experiment like this?
Swishhhh19,
This is cool. If I build a team I’ll check this out! And thx for inspiration on mvp in a month. Trying something similar. Does this feel right to you? Suggestions? Thx!
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Cool idea! I think there might be a slack app similar. Can’t remember what it’s called but will let you know when I remember.
Just a quick question from me:
How far would you take an MVP? I’m building a product at the moment and still trying to work out how I would define my MVP.
I think it's about the minimum feature set a customer would pay for. That's how I think about it
What cloud provider or PaaS do you build on?
Cool post, man. You're doing well!
Can you tell me more about how you came up with this idea?
Why didn't you use website builders with templates like Carrd, Wix, etc.?
And what tool did you use for creating UX mockups?
Thanks! To be honest, it's a problem I experienced myself and I thought it might be useful for others too. I actually used Webflow to build the landing page but im building the app in react. For the UX mockups I used Figma! I diagramed them from scratch
Ok, heard. Thx for the reply. You have coding and design skillz. Cool.