Engineering · 28 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
The MVP Trap: Why "Minimum" Doesn't Mean "Cheap" or "Small"
That's not what "minimum viable" means, and the misunderstanding is expensive. An MVP built on that definition tends to be minimum on both the wrong axes: minimum quality where it should be solid, and minimum evidence where it should be maximum. Most MVPs that fail don't fail because the idea was bad. They fail because the word "minimum" got applied to the wrong part of the project.