Should you ship a buggy MVP early, or wait until the product feels completely polished?

hen we built our first app, we followed the classic startup advice to ship fast and fix things later. We launched a very raw version, but initial users were turned off by minor bugs and UI glitches, and most of them never gave us a second chance.

​For our second tool, we spent two extra months polishing the core UX and fixing edge cases before letting anyone in. The launch was smaller, but first-time user activation and positive reviews were night and day compared to the first attempt.

​Is the ship an embarrassing MVP advice outdated now that users expect high-quality software from day one?