> Product MVPs have a much higher degree of polish and companies wait much longer to launch
Translation: people are distancing themselves from the MVP concept.
Translation: people are distancing themselves from the MVP concept.
Customers expect polish, and they expect a lot more functionality than the bare minimum.
For context, I kept a twitter thread detailing what I worked on, and when the customers started coming: https://twitter.com/RozenMD/status/1364881512500404224?s=20
That's why it's the minimum viable product, and not the bare minimum product. Determining what's needed for viability is an important part of the MVP design process.
I'd expect an "MVP" for an electric car company like Tesla Motors to be a microcar, but instead it was a luxury sports car.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_RoadsterIf there's no-one selling drinks in the park on a hot day, a homemade lemonade stand might do good business. If there's a café and a food market in the park & 5 ice-cream shops nearby it would be harder to get the same outcome for the original product
You have way more designers, software devs, libraries, etc, now in comparison to 2013. The trend will be for these things to be almost "commodities"... even for solo founders, you don't need to know design to copy/inspire yourself from a plethora of examples out there.
With no code tools you can quickly slap things together to validate stuff, before outsourcing the development to somewhere else if you need to get things going, or hire a dev.
Things are just easier and more abundant, so to make the classical "MVP" or a more polished "MVP" probably doesn't require that much extra effort/resources.
Also you need to realize that standards have changed, some small things that were valuable are now taken for granted.
That being said I think people have erred way too much away from the MVP concept and aren't fundamentally testing the biggest unknown with their MVPs. Of course you're going to need SSO at some point but you don't need it for a MVP.
Similar to how the quality tools rarely look as snazzy as the wanna-be's, and are sold to a more professional audience at a higher price but lower volume. They also typically need much less advertising and marketing, they are sold by reputation and word of mouth.