Tech to use
- levelsio avoids frameworks because they take more time. Instead he just uses PHP.
- The easiest UI to create is one in which people are sent some kind of emailed notification.
- Try to do something like that for your craigslistautorespond idea. Don't worry about making a fancy UI.
Articles about how people created their MVP
- levelsio
- How I built Remote | OK and launched it to #1 on Product Hunt
- 12 startups in 12 months: here’s how this digital nomad is f**king doing it
“I’ve always had serious difficulties finishing the ideas I started,” he explains. “I would work on stuff for ages to make it perfect, then when it’d almost be finished, I would scrap it and start on the next big idea. But in the end I was left with only unfinished projects, many of which had quite some potential.” This is apparently a huge problem among creative people, who have a seemingly boundless number of ideas bouncing around in their heads.
He thought to himself, “How can I battle this?”, and came up with this solution:
If I could develop and launch faster, I wouldn’t fall into the trap of polishing something forever. So I set the goal to develop, market and launch one startup from start to finish, every single month, for a year.
- Book: MAKE
- From web dev to 3d: Learning 3d modeling in a month
- The main takeaway I got from this was the importance of making incremental progress, and not being overwhelmed by the enormity of the task you've set for yourself.