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How to plan an MVP: a founder's guide

The matmad team·

An MVP — minimum viable product — is the smallest version of your idea that delivers real value and lets you learn from actual users. Done well, it gets you to market sooner and avoids spending big on guesses.

Start with the core workflow

Identify the one job your product must do for users to get value. Everything else is a candidate for 'later'. If your idea is 'Airbnb for X', the MVP is list, find and book — not reviews, messaging and loyalty points.

Cut scope without cutting value

  • Manual behind the scenes beats unbuilt automation at first
  • One user type before many
  • Essential integrations only
  • Polish the core flow, defer the nice-to-haves

Plan to learn, not just to launch

Decide upfront what you are testing and what success looks like. Build in analytics so you can see how real users behave, then let that data guide what you build next.

Build in milestones

We ship MVPs from £4,950 and expand them in sprints, so you launch sooner, validate with real usage, and invest further only where the evidence points. You own the codebase the whole way.

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