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Roman Grossi • Founder

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Choosing Between Shipping an MVP and Going Production Ready

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I still cannot get myself to write on a regular basis, even short progress notes.

The MVP with a minimal feature set, fully working, is already done. I am surprised by how easily the core features came together, and how good they turned out.

A couple of days ago this created a dilemma for me: should I release the project as an MVP and then keep adding extra features, or should I turn it into a production-ready product first?

I chose the second option. Even though the market is not yet overcrowded with similar products, there is still competition, and I need to offer users some unique advantage right from the start. Making everything free is a very bad idea. I learned this from Fullyst, which launched as a free project and attracted a lot of users, but as soon as limits appeared, which you could raise for a small fee, there was a significant user churn.

So I keep working on something good, but I will probably launch not in July, but in August.

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