Your MVP should do only 3 things

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Let’s get one thing straight:

Your MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is not your product — it’s a test.

It should do only 3 things:

1. Prove people care

2. Make them pay (or commit)

3. Teach you what to improve

That’s it.

If your MVP is doing more than this, you’re overbuilding.

Let me show you what this looks like in real life — with 2 MVPs that crushed it, and 1 that flopped (hard).

But first, why most founders overbuild?

Here’s what happens to most early-stage founders:

They get excited.
They start building.

Six months later, they have a half-polished product, no users, and a pile of assumptions.

Why?

Because they confuse “building a product” with “testing a problem.”