How far do you have to go for an 'MVP'?
If I had to guess, I would say a large portion of software engineers has the desire to build their own startup. The hurdle between that goal is time. The idea of an "MVP" has become popular recently, but the requirements have also grown.
The "Minimum viable product" has been
startupsfordevs.com
I'm a non-tech founder. I've built and sold a software company. The answer is this: outsource. Easy-peazy. Find a developer that works with your style and can understand your vision, pay him or her an hourly rate, and make your dream a reality.
Remember, the value is not in the code. It's in the audience. So while that person is building your software, market your ass off.
Even as a technical founder, I frequently use no-code tools because it's faster. I'm currently using Bubble to run my Chrome Extension, even though I could code it up.
It's best to really focus my time & energy on the thigns that make my startup special. To the extent that I can "outsource" the rest, I should.
This is gold. I've never seen it explained like this before. More non-tech founders need to know this. Bookmarked!
We are trying to do something like this at ThriftMVP.
Lots of great startups out there that did not have great founder fit so they now exist as floating unused assets. I think being able to take those and matching them with fitting founders can save potentially more than 10x in dev costs and highly increase success rates!
@uxland I love how the title of this article is how "non-tech founders" can build an MVP, and the domain name for the blog is... "Startups for Devs" 😂
Nice article though. Thanks, Lisa!
This is such an interesting read. We are using a very similar approach to build Loopify360. Pretty much relying on loads of no-code tools e.g. Wix, Zapier. The product is not perfect; however, our fundamental solution works.
Feel free to check us out: www.loopify360.com
I love it! This is such a strategic way of building a startup. If IndieHacker allowed saving posts, this would be on my list right now.
Nice thanks
Really good read, thanks for sharing.
This thing mentioned node.js boilerplate sites, does anyone know of a python boilerplate they recommend?
This is such a brilliant way of looking at things. As a non-tech founder, I wish I'd gone down this route. It would have saved me a lot of time and money.
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