Replacing Minimum Viable with Minimum Lovable

[zabramow]

http://blog.heyimcat.com/its-called-ship-not-shit/

[kybernetyk]

The concept of a MVP is that if it's simple and possibly ugly and people still want to pay money for it then your 'real' version will be a success.

Sure, you can add superb design to your MVP - but that won't help you with collecting more of the data you're after. You will just have wasted more time on a possible dud.

[zabramow → kybernetyk]

I agree -- but I've seen instances of developers almost trying to make the first version uglier than it needed to be (and not actually viable).