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Comment by mesebrec | Hacker News Reader

I thought they were advocating for creating and testing marketing material before the product itself.

But then I read they noticed traction because people started submitting pull requests and trying out the code. At that point, they already had some product.

So what are they advocating for? Is it just a different way to look at an MVP? Where you focus on creating something that can test traction instead of creating something that can deliver value?

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Author here: Sorry about the confusion there :) We started with a single landing page and readme. Already with this people started starring it and a few even joined the Slack community. We also got strong interest in calls and a few “oh wow that sounds like exactly what I need!”.

At this point we started building a working product and the pull requests came a few days after we published a first version of that.

In the article says: "It only had a simple landing page and a Readme on our GitHub repo". So they started getting pull requests without any product (is what I gather). So they are advocating for the classic MVP experiments before building the actual product (No idea why they renamed it to "MV Positioning", when MV Product is exactly the same thing).

This is what I thought too but it doesn’t make much sense.

My understanding is they fumbled around in the dark until they found something people might want and later, once they started building it out, they started getting pull requests.

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