MVP Is Dead. Long Live the MLP (Minimum Lovable Product)
I've built two apps before, and neither of them gave me the result I wanted. The funny part is that my goal with both of them was ridiculously small: make $1. Now, thanks to Shipaton 2026, I'm building my third app at a much faster pace. The iOS version is already live, and I'm writing this while waiting for the 14-day closed testing period on Google Play. I want this first post to be a kind of postmortem. Why did my previous apps fail? Why did I choose this idea? What am I doing differently this time? And what comes next?
First, the two apps that came before
1. A Chrome extension
The first one was a simple Chrome extension for managing draft real estate listing templates. It was the definition of an MVP. There wasn't even a payment flow. I just added a Buy Me a Coffee link. The...
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