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by ImPostingOnHN 1096 days ago
"obviously broken" isn't the only option besides perfect, so we'll just use the term "not perfect" here, and believe me, some of them will let you know what isn't perfect about it when you ask.

then you focus on that.

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“Not perfect” is a straw man because obviously nothing ever is perfect or 100% complete. When shipping something becomes the priority, then “obviously broken” stuff just gets re-dubbed “not perfect” which is exactly the problem.

If your users are forced to use your platform because you mainly sell to CTOs who only need a list of checkboxes checked, and they strike a deal with you, then yeah. It’s a great business model to check as many boxes as possible, get that contract, then figure out what those boxes actually mean later.

"obviously broken" is a straw man because we're just discussing anything that doesn't satisfy everything you want (which you listed).

indeed, the concept of an "obviously broken" MVP is an oxymoron, since V stands for "viable"

when giving everybody everything they want becomes the priority, then "not perfect" stuff just gets re-dubbed "obviously broken" by 1 random person, which is actually the problem: it's better to ship something and get feedback and iterate on it than to ship nothing or to ship the wrong thing after a long development time or to ship at the end of however long it takes to satisfy everybody's desires