Has AI made the "MVP" meaningless, or just raised the bar for what counts as one?
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I've been thinking about this since I watched a friend spin up a functional SaaS dashboard in a weekend using AI. It wasn't polished, but it worked. Two years ago that would have been a month of work.
On one hand, it feels like the barrier to entry has collapsed. On the other, the amount of noise on Product Hunt and Reddit has exploded. Every other launch is an AI wrapper or a "vibe-coded" tool.
If you're building now, does shipping something fast with AI still feel like an accomplishment, or has the goalpost moved to distribution and retention instead? Curious how others are calibrating their own sense of "done" when the tools make shipping so easy.
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Vibe coding changed the speed, not the need for product-market fit.
Honestly, a working product feels less impressive when everyone can ship one now.
The real MVP might be finding users who actually come back.
Uxia
the goalpost moved from can we ship it to can we learn from someone using it. i've found the fastest way to calibrate 'done' is to put a rough flow in front of a few people before adding the next layer of polish.