Ask HN: When is something ready to be exposed to HN?

3 points·krrishd··7 comments

I am currently in the process of building a startup, and I am already taking pre-registration while the MVP is still under construction. Something that I am very curious about is when a startup is ready to be shown to the world of HN? Should the MVP already be released? Or can a simple preregistration/landing page suffice for a submission? What level of content would you prefer?

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There are lots of votes for MVP, but given what I normally see (and in the past I was guilty of myself) an MVP will come with more nitpicking than necessarily useful criticism, so I'd release the MVP to friends and family first, then polish it a bit more, like an mvp++ for Hacker News.

If you are looking for feedback and ways to improve the product then a simple MVP would work. But, if you want people to sign up and use it, then I would suggest a more polished MVP.

When it's done.

As in the MVP or just the general concept, becuase I often see submissions which simply promote an upcoming product or service rather than display a final product itself.

MVP - super MVP

As in:

There are two routes:

1. Splash page saying what you will do(not effective on HN) 2. Website doing what you say it will. this doesn't necessarily need to be software powered on the back end. it really depends on what you are working on. if it's a SaaS company for example you could do everything manually and see if it gets any traction before you actually write the code...

Shipped is better than done.

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