How to ship an MVP in weeks, not months

Most MVPs are late because they were never minimal. The scope quietly expands until the “minimum” product is a full product. The fix is ruthless prioritization against a single hypothesis.

Start from the riskiest assumption

Identify the one belief that, if wrong, sinks the product. Build only enough to test it. Everything else waits.

Design before code

A clickable prototype surfaces scope creep in days, not sprints. It is far cheaper to delete a screen in a design tool than in a codebase.

Ship on real infrastructure from day one

Launching on production-grade infrastructure avoids the costly rebuild that “we’ll harden it later” always becomes.