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by dredmorbius 4577 days ago
WTF is MVP?
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Minimum Viable Product.

The idea behind an MVP is that you build the bare minimum of what it takes to prove their is demand, and then you build out the rest of the features to make it awesome.

If you don't build an MVP you might never ship anything, and that makes VC's unhappy.

Most valuable project, I'm guessing. And if his most valuable project is worth -3600/user/year I feel sorry for the company.
My first thought was "mobile video platform" though I found that hard to reconcile with the apparent focus on advertising.

Digging through links on the site suggests "minimum viable product". That term isn't among the top definitions listed in acronym dictionaries, though having had my memory prodded, I've seen it before on HN.

Articles which can't be arsed to define their acronyms draw flags from me.