I made a MVP in 48h and made $180 in sales!

Hey!
After making an MVP in 3 hours last time, I'm back with a new one!
This time, I made it in 48 hours, and it just crossed $180 in sales 6 days after starting the idea ($50 in the first 24 hours)

Here is the story:

👉 Skip to the end of the post if you just want the tips

On 05/12/2022 at 20:44, I got an idea, and gave myself the challenge of making it in 48 hours:

I started by doing technical tests to see if what I wanted to do was doable. After a LOT of iterations, I started to get consistent results.

👉 Note: I wasted lots of time trying to make a user interface, honestly, it could have been done in 24 hours instead. Don't waste your time making one unless your product ABSOLUTELY requires it.

By the end of the 48h, the goal was to have something allowing me to test interest and receive payment, to see if people would pay for those services. Since I didn't have time to finish the user interface, I made a quick landing page in plain HTML, as well as a Typeform linked to Stripe to collect payment.

I spent lots of time on Twitter interacting and meeting new amazing people, so I had around 700 people following me at the time. I posted frequently, asking for feedback, which created some enthusiasm for the idea.
I also frequently posted questions on Twitter to do some basic market research:

I published the landing page, made a Tweet exactly 48 hours after the first one (to the minute) and went to sleep.
By the way, the app allows people to generate unique logos made by artificial intelligence specifically trained to design logos

I made 5 sales when I woke up the next day.

I now knew the idea was validated! 🥳

It meant that I proved my two hypotheses ("I can make this product" and "People would pay for it").
It was now time to build a proper interface, as well as manually handle orders

👉 When starting out, don't think about if your app can scale or not. The #1 and UNIQUE priority should be to know if you can have at least one sale, no matter how crappy your code is. Customers don't care about your back-end, and you can always improve it later

It's also the exact same time when I noticed a few competitors doing the same thing. The quality seemed far from what I was getting, but still, so I needed to go fast.

I made a proper back-end that allowed me to handle the orders automatically on my side, then started to think about making a user interface, as well as launching on ProductHunt:

I finished the back end yesterday, and I'm going to launch on ProductHunt today (Sunday 11)! In the meantime, I made a total of $180 in sales, both from people I knew thanks to my recent activity on Twitter and from people I didn't know.

Here is what you can learn from it:

• A MVP shouldn’t take more than 24-48h to be made. If your product requires a full interface, make a technical demo, record a video of it using Loom, and just make a landing page showcasing + asking people to join a waitlist or pre-order.
• It's ok to ignore all the good practices and find duct tape solutions for your code. I think a real dev would cry by seeing what I wrote, but it's enough to validate the product.
• As cliche as it sounds, building an audience is an amazing way to get started quickly. If I didn't have people supporting me on Twitter, I would have posted on Reddit and made ads. That's also what I'm going to do next.
• Make a pre-made landing page design you can copy/paste and easily adapt to new products, that will allow you to launch at light speed!

P.S. For those who will ask, my whole app runs on Node.js + plain HTML for the front end, I don't use any framework or anything. I come from a marketing background, I only started to code in May haha, frameworks look a bit overkill for me