A minimum viable product (MVP) is a version of a product with just enough features to be usable by early customers who can then provide feedback for future product development.[1][2]
Build a Minimum Viable Platform (MVP) in four phases
Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead.
"MVP" implies a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn". Instead, make the first version SLC: Simple, Lovable, and Complete".
Minimum Standards of Product Development
Fostering collaboration and continuous innovation
Feature / Product / Business: A Framework for Sustainable ATProto Projects | ATmosphereConf VODs
The ATProto community built a ton of great features and products over the past year! For our next trick, let's mature them into products and businesses. In this talk, you'll get a practical framework for understanding whether what you're building should be a feature, product, or business, plus concrete funding models at each layer to keep your work going and growing. (More in this thread: https://bsky.app/profile/mosh.bsky.social/post/3mckiat2ne22q)
The Four Big Risks | Silicon Valley Product Group
In the first edition of my book, INSPIRED, I discussed how successful products are valuable, usable and feasible, where I defined “valuable” as both valuable to customers and valuable to your business. While it’s easy to remember these three attributes, over the years I’ve come to believe that it was obscuring some pretty serious risks and...
A product modeling platform for AI-built software
The first version is magic. Auto turns product intent into a durable model your agent can build from as the product evolves.
How To Validate Product Ideas Before (And After) Building Them
People spend too much time writing software relative to speaking to potential customers, prior to launching and after it. Reversing that is a win.
WRKSHP.tools | Product Box
The Product Box exercise helps you when you need to convert an abstract concept into something tangible that you can evaluate with people that were not intimately part of the design process.
The golden rules of agent-first product engineering
Five principles for building products that work well for AI agents and MCP servers.
The making of a product icon | Figma Blog
Product Designer Tim Van Damme shares his thoughtful approach to Figma icon design and the creative exploration that shapes each final result.
Agents First
Every product is getting a second customer — the human who pays, and the agent who decides. A design framework for building products that AI agents can use as primary consumers.
Minimum Viable Infrastructure
Minimum Viable Infrastructure Innovation often emerges not solely from brilliant ideas but from the infrastructure readiness that makes those ideas viable. Consider the progression of mobile consumer internet applications over the past two decades: Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok. Their lau...
Opportunity Solution Tree: A Visual Tool for Product Discovery
Learn how to use the Opportunity Solution Tree framework to create products customers crave and generate more revenue.
MiniApps Working Group Charter
The mission of the MiniApps Working Group is to produce specifications that facilitate the development of interoperable and robust MiniApps.
The Product Picnic
Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.
Design Rules, Volume 1: The Power of Modularity
We live in a dynamic economic and commerical world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and t
