You have to build an MVP in 48hrs. What do you NOT need?

Sounds like a great event :)

I would use templates for the landing page, frontend and backend.

For me I would ideally just use Django and their standard templating engine.

Also they would need to find a way to talk to potential customers quickly. As no point building something no one would use.

I'm the co-founder of https://versoly.com/, if teams need to build quick landing pages with analytics and a blogging CMS I would be more than happy to offer our help.

In case of https://realnotcomplex.com/ I decided to completely avoid building backend and focus on presenting static content, edited by hand.

I only built static front-end part. Of course I plan to add much more functionality and eventually turn the project into something closer to a real web application, but I decided to find an aspect of my idea that will only require 20% of effort, but give 80% of value to my target market.

I also have another business in mind that will follow similar strategy - starting only with static content.

You can set up and deploy a functioning webserver with heroku and .NET core in five minutes. Heroku also lets you set up a database for your app in one minut.

I think a hackathon product is different than an MVP. I wouldn't expect a hackathon product to be secure or be ready to accept payment, for example.

• no user accounts if possible (if the tool doesn't generate private information).
• no payment integration
• no onboarding
• nothing other than default styles from your CSS framework or site builder
• no logo, just plain text of the product name
• no marketing pages. Just take me to the first form I absolutely need
• no "welcome to XYZ" headers or paragraphs. No text other than what is absolutely necessary to understand how to use the product

It would take 48 hours just to set up express lol