Guestie

We created our MVP that included a lot more features than the earlier one. Fortunately we found a friend who was getting married within a week and we could test the application in that wedding before taking it to market. It's been two months now and the response from the market is not very positive. A lesson that we learnt was that the time we spent on building more features should have been combined with sales efforts. There was no need for us to wait for the product to be completely finished to make our first sales call.

I went to the market to speak to our potential partners [wedding planners] as we had a fair idea of how our product will look like. We called it a photo sharing application then but after talking to them, they wanted a lot more in the application. Also, the proposition of photo sharing app alone did not excite them enough. So, we pivoted and added lot more features to our MVP to include invites, chats, travel info sharing etc. That moved our delivery timelines by another couple of months. We now became a Wedding App instead of Photo sharing App.

After going through a list of ideas, we shortlisted this idea and began working on it. We did few interviews with potential vendors, customers, market research etc for a month before getting started with putting the MVP together.