Product
An MVP is not a half-designed website. It is the smallest slice of your product that a real user can complete a job with.
When we scope MVPs for startups and internal tools, we ask one question: which action, if completed end-to-end, would prove the business idea? Everything else becomes a backlog item with a date, not a launch blocker.
A practical MVP checklist
- One primary user and one primary job
- A way to sign in and a way to get help
- Enough admin to operate without SQL
- Instrumentation so you can see whether people finish the job
We then sequence design, API and UI so you can demo something real — not a clickable fiction.