The idea of “minimum viable product” never made sense to me, so I appreciated this reframe of “simple, lovable, complete.”

This conversation comes primarily from tech entrepreneurship, where for years, entrepreneurs were encouraged to launch a “minimum viable product” for customer feedback. This never felt right to me, and I appreciated this explanation of using “simple, lovable, complete” as criteria instead.

How can this idea be applied in other contexts to build things with time and resource constraints? What would a “simple, lovable, complete” website for an organization that can’t afford web developer help look like?

What would a “simple, lovable, complete” report look like?

I LOVE the fact that “lovable” is an explicit criterion here – we all want something lovable (to read, to use, to watch) but how often do we use that as a criterion for what we are making?