Grannies of the world, unite!
The definitive MVP guide for all the grandmas out there
The first step you should take towards transforming an idea into a quantifiable reality is to become cognizant of whether or not you are meeting the base requirements of the market and adding to it, instead of overlapping with existing services and providers. There’s a way to do all these things, put into service. Funnily enough, it’s us at Squid40 that offer it.
You need a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to develop a successful idea. Here’s why:
- To avoid investing money in a product that will later prove itself to be incomplete or not to the liking of the customers;
- You get to keep the user base of early adopters throughout the development of the idea;
- The feedback from the user base will lead to improvements and a better version of the product than you could ever design on your own.
That’s the pretentious version, which no grandma in history has ever been a fan of, so if you were ever in need of a way to explain what a Minimum Viable Product is, we’ve come to the rescue! For all the grannies of the world, that version is odd, unpleasantly vague and upfront boring. So, this one goes to our grandmothers.
We can put it this way: the MVP is like a base recipe.
If you have a craving, the MVP is the immediate relief, so… pleasure but without a lot of ‘oomph’ to it. We can build upon it, though. So it might not be as pretty and have the most complex of flavour profiles as one might hope, but it sure is tasty. The premises of the MVP are offering everything needed to make a functional, tasty dish. Quick and easy, but most of all, that works for you.
We offer you the ingredients, the method and the means to make it into a reality and even take it even further.
So, the steps for developing the recipe for the perfect Minimum Viable Product are:
- You’re offered the base recipe that is reliable, with a flavour profile that fits the minimal expectations for the dish, so you will have all the means necessary to meet the bare minimum of requirements for your dish to be what it aspires to be.
- By reaching out to friends, family, and peers for advice, tips and different adjustments to make it better tasting, you get the information you need to make the dish better, so having them around to test on is convenient and pleasurable.
- After receiving feedback on your creation, you’re able to develop it and add elements to your liking. You can now go beyond what you were initially provided with and aim to develop the base recipe into something magnificent you can share with the entire world!
In summary, what’s actually the best recipe?
So, let’s say you’re in the mood for Clătite, and this is a nod to our Romanian roots and execution, or crêpes, as most people will know them. The MVP offers you what will turn out to be quite a plain, though satisfactory result, a basic dish that meets the minimum requirements for it to be what it aims to be.
The recipe needs a few things for it to be crêpes and not, let’s say, pancakes, so what we offer you is a base recipe, the ingredients and the method, alongside a crowd to test it out on and a wide array of new tweaks and adjustments you can make. Seems like an MVP might come in handy, right?
It’s like we offer you the food, the audience and a guaranteed fabulous experience. And there’s a whole other world of services we provide that you can explore to make your recipe the best recipe.
Some itty bitty references:
- S-PRO’s article on building MVPs for start-ups
- Andrew Bondarenko’s article on why you need an MVP
- Shane Lennon’s article about what a Minimum Marketable Product (MMP) is and why you need it
- Carlos Beneyto’s article about what a Minimum Awesome Product (MAP) entails, to get you going
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