| To successfully outsource your MVP on a budget you need to do five things: 1. Talk to ten users who aren’t your mom and understand if this is a problem that needs solving. It’s ok that this takes time to find these people and get them to agree to chat with you, it’s worth it and will save you a lot of money because you’ll know the first feature you need in the mvp and some marketing that might resonate for your landing page collecting emails. 2. Create the mock-ups of what you think the software should look like. 3. Hire three talented designers on Fiverr to take a single screen and design it. Then hire the best person and have them create the rest of the designs - go mobile first. 4. Hire three developers on Fiverr to develop one tiny part. Choose the best developer (most responsive best end product, etc) and get the to develop the mvp. 5. Stick it in front of people and see what they do with it via analytics, more user interviews, usability testing. This does not have to cost $25k, it will cost a lot of time, good judgement, a very high level of skepticism, and a lot of reading. |