What is an MVP?
Read in RomanianMVP (produs minim viabil)
Why it matters
An MVP buys you evidence. Instead of spending six months building what you think people want, you ship the smallest thing that can prove or kill the idea, then let real usage decide what comes next. For a founder, that's the difference between learning in weeks and guessing for a quarter.
What an MVP is not
It is not a buggy, half-finished product with "MVP" used as an excuse. Viable means it does one job well enough that someone would genuinely use and value it. The scope is minimal; the quality of that scope is not.
Where teams get it wrong
Two failure modes, opposite directions. One is gold-plating: polishing features no one has asked for before a single user has tried the core idea. The other is shipping something so thin it tests nothing. A good MVP is ruthless about scope and serious about the one thing it keeps.
How we approach it
We scope an MVP around the single riskiest assumption and build only what's needed to test it, often an AI feature backed by RAG, so you get a real answer fast.
Related terms
Used in
- Auditing AI-Generated Code: What Actually Breaks in ProductionWhen an app is built mostly by AI, a specific set of failures recurs. The checks we run on AI-generated code, and why each one bites once real users arrive.
- The Anatomy of an Over-Scoped MVP: A TeardownWe dissect a real pattern we see repeatedly: founders who scope their MVP as if they are launching a startup, not testing a hypothesis. Here is what to cut and why.
- The Basetool 6-Week MVP MethodOur named methodology for shipping a production-ready MVP in six weeks. Fixed scope, fixed price, three phases. This is exactly how we work.
- Your vibe-coded MVP just got users. Here is what breaks first.You built an MVP with AI in a weekend. Now it has real users, and it is starting to break. Here is the honest harden-or-rebuild decision, and what fails first.