Overview
The smallest version of the idea that real people can actually use, built well enough that you keep it rather than throw it away. Scope gets cut to what proves the thing, and the rest waits until somebody has asked for it.
Covers
06- Scoping
- Core flow
- Accounts
- Payments
- Analytics
- Launch
Who it suits
03- Founders testing an idea before raising
- Anyone quoted three months for a first version
- Teams with a spec that keeps growing
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What you get.
4 includedIncluded1 to 3 weeks
- A scope agreed before anything is built
- One core flow working end to end
- Accounts, payments and analytics where needed
- Something you can put in front of users
Built by Denney
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How it runs.
1 to 3 weeksShare of the work, by the weight of each stage.
- 17% of the work
Cut
Everything not needed to prove the idea comes out of version one.
Days 1 to 2 - 66% of the work
Build
One core flow end to end, working properly rather than four half done.
Weeks 1 to 2 - 17% of the work
Launch
In front of real users, with enough analytics to tell you what happened.
Final days
03
Built with.
5 tools- Next.jsFramework
- ReactInterface
- SupabasePlatform
- PostgresDatabase
- StripePayments
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What to check.
Scope, up frontVersion one or everything
Side by sideVersion one
- One flow, working properly
- In front of users this month
- Changed once you know something
Everything at once
- Six flows, all half finished
- In front of users next quarter
- Changed after you have paid for it
What this is not
3 excluded- Everything on the roadmap, in version one
- A throwaway prototype you rebuild next year
- A pitch deck or a fundraising story
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Seen in the work.
1 projectgosu.ggOpen beta

Case study
GOSU
Permanent PUBG match archive with replays rebuilt from telemetry.
- What it proves
- A data source that deletes itself after fourteen days, ingested and kept, then rebuilt into watchable replays from the raw telemetry.
- Outcome
- A record that survives the API deleting it.
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Where it is asked for.
1 town- KT1BaseKingston upon ThamesAlso asked for there
