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@rish
good mvp needs: - strict definition of hypothesis you want to test - simplest end to end flow to test hypothesis - identifying the right customer segment to perform the test (e.g. skateboard audience is a narrow subset of car audience) does not need: - anything else
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Dan | Icebreaker
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More like 👇 My issue with the skateboard model is your target users are not happy from get-go, which makes things slower and harder Post v1: “we built a bad skateboard” Post v2: “we built a bad bike”. Are we a skateboard, bike, or car company? Or should we just focus on what we know and sell wheels B2B?”
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rish
@rish
if target users are teenagers who want skateboards, then not sure “unhappy from get go” applies agree this works better if you’re not aiming for perfecting one stage before adding more (we didn’t have the perfect hosted hubs, we added APIs) Post result interpretation depends a lot on what hypothesis is
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Dan | Icebreaker
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“Hey son, I know you really wanted a car for your birthday so I got you a skateboard instead” “Gee thanks, Dad! Can’t wait to pick my girlfriend up on this baby” - no teenager ever 😂 Point is if your goal is a car, starting with a skateboard is a distraction
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rish
@rish
Hence, hypothesis :) If your hypothesis is “a car”, that’s not what I’m saying in the first bullet The hypothesis here would be like “user X wants to travel faster between point A and B”
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Dan | Icebreaker
@web3pm
Totally agree with you! Sorry my reaction is to the skateboard analogy bc I've seen it misapplied a lot
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rish
@rish
Makes sense. Yeah I don’t think it works in isolation. All three bullets are needed together
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