Minimum Lovable Product
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But the article is written by the product guys about how they used their own product to determine what to put next into said product. A product intended to help groups determine priorities without meetings....
It's not exactly astroturfing, but....
Dogfoodturfing?
Anyway, quick clarification that this is a article written by the product guys about how they use their own product in their other job. So not exactly as self referential as suggested.
-one of the product guys
Without any info of what is trying to be built it's useless. The minimum viable product could well be the image on the right, if say your product was trying to scale the delivery of cute looking cupcakes.