Why You Should Ignore Edge-Cases to Reduce MVP Launch Time đź’ˇ
One trick to speed up the launch time for your MVP is to ignore all the edge-cases. đź’ˇ
This means focusing on launching with a “happy-path” product, where you assume the user does everything right, and not guard against user errors (eg typos in an intake form).
This cuts down on engineering work because edge-cases don’t happen often by definition. So there’s less ROI on your work trying to guard against all of them.
Second, there are an infinite number of ways a user can screw up, and even if you tried you can't cover all of them anyways.
I give more tips on how to cut engineering work in the article below.
Highlights include:
- Why I might try collecting emails before building a product out
- How to replace engineering work with an “operations heavier” approach first
- Why I would spend more time investigating no-code tooling before hiring engineers (including my favorite no-code tools as well)
Link here: https://michaellin.substack.com/p/mo-code-mo-problems-engineering-advice
