Challenge: Complete

Wow what a weekend!

Surprised myself by managing to finish an MVP in just 4 days.

By the end of the 3rd day, fatigue was starting to kick in. There’s good lessons in product management here.

While I managed to finish an MVP, I downscoped significantly what I had initially planned to build. The singular objective of wanting to ship an MVP served as a good forcing function.

Here’re just some of the features which I left out:

• Publishing an App Home within Slack
• Making the app mobile responsive (left a message indicating it’s built for desktop only)
• Inviting users to the Slack channel within the app (left a link with instructions on how to do it within slack instead)

Often it goes against base instincts to ship something that you don’t feel is ready. But in a similar vein, as makers we tend to let that fester and projects don’t get shipped.

After leaving out the above features, to me as the product owner, the product still feels complete. It remains to be seen if there's enough value to justify a price, but from a feature set perspective, definitely MVP worthy!

Now the question, still unanswered: Should I launch on Product Hunt?