This comment is what PKL is going to be remembered for. Tbh I wouldn’t even have the courage to write the comment myself as the framework was coming from Apple.
Designers should understand design, engineers should understand function - and PMs should understand the market. For instance why should we prioritise one segment over the other? How should we price the product? What are the second order effects of prioritising one feature over the other?
This often involves human ingenuity instead of software. One of the best examples of an MVP is Zappos, where the founder went down to a local Footlocker and took photos of all the shoes. He then uploaded them to his blog, added some margin on the price and had a buy button which emailed him whenever anyone clicked it. He’d then just run down, buy the shoe, add ship it over to the buyer.
A simple blog was turned into a e-commerce MVP and his idea was slowly validated.
Also taking the cost into account, it’s much more reasonable hiring 10 content curators dishing out 10 lists a day, as opposed to using a team of experts creating ML models.
I'd love to know what Google offered for 8tracks back in 2013. If they reached nearly 8m MAU who streamed 30m+ hours each month, that's still basis for a pretty decent exit, no?
I fondly remember our school teacher making us use such an app to learn the keyboard layout. I'd remove the background level indicators though, they obscure the letters slightly.