[dave_sullivan]

I think the key is balance. It's easy to get carried away with "gotta be perfect at launch", but it seems equally easy to take MVP too far (or, not far enough wrt product). It's an interesting concept, but it seems like many consider it religion.

Honestly, as a user, the whole landing page thing strikes me as borderline offensive because it shows you haven't put much time in and therefore don't value my time. But sometimes, that's a price worth paying to get some early validation for an unproven concept. As always, it depends.

Wrt to lean startup in general, I do appreciate their step by step scientific-ish approach, I think it's based on sound principles.

[loceng]

My first go at my projects I was hoping to create MVPs initially, though I realize what I created fell short of MVPs, and therefore I call being at the prototype stage.

I'm not sure anyone can truly know for sure what a MVP will look like, as there are too many insights that you can learn as you're building a product.