What does an MVP for a rent payment system looks like?
I want to build a rent payment app. Currently the way I pay rent is that I have to go to the bank, take out the cash for the rent amount then, go to a MoneyGram location and pay the rent.
For my mother, who is older I need to write a check and mail it to the landlord. I'm thinking on working on a side project to address this issue but I have issues coming up with ideas for an MVP.
I'm a software engineer so I can build a small app, but what should an MVP looks like? Some ideas to test would be to
A) A landing page
B) maybe a small Ruby on Rails app where user A sends money to user B ? (This can already be solved with Zelle, Cash App, etc)
C) Not a problem at all.
To strip down the complexity of a payment system what could a small web app MVP look like?
Not to dissuade you, but it sounds like a solved problem. Even if you were to add features for payment of other bills in addition to rent, there are plenty of budget apps out there that do this exact thing. It might be beneficial to niche down. If there is some is some way to specifically appeal to, for example, elderly people who need to pay rent, that might be worth exploring.
To answer more directly, a small app where users send money to each other sounds like a great MVP for a payment system. It just seems like the value proposition may not be there.
i agree