[strogonoff]

I always thought that MVP by definition must be a complete product, but existence of articles like yours and Intercom’s Cupcake approach[0] makes me wonder what exactly do some companies out there consider as MVP. Some sort of incomplete prototype?

[0] A great read too: https://www.intercom.com/blog/start-with-a-cupcake/

[baxtr]

I noted below, that product people like Marty Kagan, consider a MVP to be a prototype where you test hypotheses. Worst case it can be discarded and a "real" product will be built after testing. It is a bit unfortunate in this that the "P" in MVP stands for Product.