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by teacup50 4000 days ago
> You have an app that doesn't need to perform actions in sub 10-milliseconds. 11 milliseconds is just fine.

Why? This is cumulative, across everything in your app. Why are you spending the user's resources on yourself?

> You don't require access to a whole host of system processes, but maybe access to the file system, or the clipboard, would be a big help to your users.

Native integration is a lot more than access to the clipboard and file system. Drag and drop. Editing key shortcuts. Consistent components.

> Your users are not super technical and won't even know what a hybrid app or native app means.

You don't need to be a professional chef to tell the difference between home baked cookies and chips-a-hoy, and you don't need to be highly technical to know that an "hybrid" application doesn't work as well as any of your other well-written apps.

> You want to get your app to market on multiple platforms in days/weeks, not months, and without spending a ton of money.

Blah. So we'll ship things that suck because it's a better product for us, the person making it? What if shipping genuinely good applications is actually integral to your success?

Remember: MVP is all about reducing the risk to VCs by decreasing the costs to get a product to market, by increasing the risk of a "false negative" market failure due to your shipping a poor product.

If you're that false negative, MVP hasn't done you any good.