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Miles Matthias
@miles_matthias · CTO @EquityEats
Thanks @mattellsworth! I'm looking forward to building it out more - automating the part everyone is really enjoying so far and figuring out how to best help those with startup ideas.
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Miles Matthias
@miles_matthias · CTO @EquityEats
Hi! I'm Miles, a web and iOS developer in Boulder, Colorado. I built an mvp to gauge interest for an idea of building easier ways to release new product ideas and iterate before investing time in building a backend. It got on the front page of hacker news, got lots of sign ups, and I'm excited about investing some more time in it soon.
Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@nowmiles I love the simplicity of this tool and more generally, I particularly appreciate products that help reduce the time from idea inception to creation/validation.
What are you plans with ManualViableProduct? How are you planning to improve it?
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Miles Matthias
@miles_matthias · CTO @EquityEats
@rrhoover thanks! Short term plans are to actually build the back end (since there is a real interest) (see a pattern here? ha) and to collect information from the visitor with modals instead of prompts like it's 1996 :)
Long term I'm thinking it'd be cool for people wanting to test an idea to have a dashboard of manual requests instead of being unorganized… See more
Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Nice, @nowmiles! I know you just launched but what are the most creative uses of the product so far?
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Miles Matthias
@miles_matthias · CTO @EquityEats
@rrhoover I think most of the people are excited about using it in the coming weeks on upcoming MVPs, but I did have one person wanting to ask his users 40 questions, put it into his spreadsheet that does some calculations, and then email the results back to the user. That's exactly the use case I'm shooting for, but 40 questions over a prompt is a lot of pr… See more