As far as MVPs go, the methodology is sound. I just have an issue with the false equivalencies of ‘you didn’t do this at this rate, so you must not care about it as much’. Do it in 24 hrs or 60 days, just do what you can as fast as you can, is how I see it.
I have a couple of ideas that I think are good but I’m not passionate enough (at this time) to push them.
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I so disgree that words cannot say how much I disagree just like @xolubi . I am even offended by the statement for no reason whatsoever. If you are building another food-ordering(or similar) service, then 30 days is enough. Try build the basic dropbox(or Tesla or Google) in 30 days. Try build or prototype an hardware company in 30 days. Try build something very significant in 30 days. We are so much stuck in the era of build-it-in-30-days that we have so many mediocre startups or startups with mediocre mission.
If you want to build a startup that is truly meaningful, take your time. Eff 30 days. Let anyone that want to build another mediocre service, go ahead.
In my opinion, it is this kind of opinion that pushes everyone into mediocrity, just to be called Startup CEO, running a mediocre company on a mediocre mission. Let’s STOP propagating this kind of ideas. In fact, it is far, far better to be part(or joiner/employee) of a meaningful company than to build a mediocre one.
If you are young and smart, invest your intelligence and youth wisely. Build or be part of something meaningful. That won’t take 30 days certainly, you will need time.
Let me add: If you can build your startup in 30 days, it is probably a bad sign. It means every tom-dick-and-harry can pull up your service too in 30 days(or less). And since you probably, aren’t the smartest guy thereis around, you might just have an idle hacker replicate your service in a weekend, just for fun. Well, because he is smarter/better than you. What do you have left, a very competitive (and maybe small) market.
30 days?! Probably that can be achieved if the ‘co-founders’ are leveraging on an already existing platform like opencart, magento and the likes. But if they are building their application from scratch (especially if it’s not just a CRUD related app) then I doubt it.
I think you can make significant progress on a new startup in 30 days. At least know if its a viable idea to some extent.
@mstuapha Like I pointed out, the focus of the thread is whether or no you are serious with your startup (no matter what you’re trying to build out of it) if you cannot have an MVP out in 30 days. We know its possible to build a basic Twitter clone in 24 hours, but thats not solving anyone’s problems. There was a forum on your list, but Discourse - the engine this site runs on - wasn’t built in 30 days, and that’s coming from the guy behind Stack Overflow and an impressive team.