Syed Ibrahim returns to the show to talk with Tim about his side project, Shoutouts.app.
Syed’s story of creating this web application is a terrific example of doing a minimum viable product (MVP). He candidly shares both advantages and disadvantages of releasing an MVP, and walks us through the details of having an idea, acting on it to create something that works at a basic level for a specific audience, and getting it out there to continue learning and enhancing it.
You can find Syed at
https://www.syedibrahim.me

One of the best definitions of MVP is from Frank Robinson, who created the term around 2000:
http://www.syncdev.com/minimum-viable-product/

Lest anyone think the photos of the antique telephone are a snarky comment on the idea of an MVP, forget it. Syed liked the phone (which does still receive calls on a POTS land line) and requested it be used as the image for this episode. Like Syed’s new web app, hand crank telephones attempted to do only one thing very well for their users, and in many cases succeeded. Additional features were added over the decades, of course…but that’s a story for another episode.

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