How to Build an MVP App Without Writing Code
This is good advice, and it&#x27;s helpful to have specific tools. There are definitely certain kinds of business ideas you can gauge the market using a facade MVP. If you&#x27;re making a straightforward CRUD app on an standard stack, chances are high that you can prototype &amp; test it without engineering.<p>I have a startup that made the mistake of building too much too early, but I don&#x27;t think an MVP app would have helped me. The core idea of the app depends a lot on the experience and performance of the finished product, and customers have higher standards than we expected and they need integrations with lots of other services to know if it&#x27;ll work for them.<p>I suspect there are lots of business ideas where you can&#x27;t tell if it&#x27;s going to work until the complete experience is in place. Uber, for example, since it was mentioned in the article. Certainly you can prototype the app to get a feel for the app, but that won&#x27;t deliver the experience of the product at all, you won&#x27;t know if you&#x27;d pay for it until you got a ride from a stranger in under two minutes.<p>This American Life recently had a podcast on magic, and interviewed Penn &amp; Teller. Teller said something interesting along the lines of &#x27;there are lots of things you can do halfway, but with magic you can&#x27;t, with magic it either works or it&#x27;s stupid.&#x27; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.thisamericanlife.org&#x2F;radio-archives&#x2F;episode&#x2F;619&#x2F;the-magic-show" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.thisamericanlife.org&#x2F;radio-archives&#x2F;episode&#x2F;619&#x2F;th...</a>)<p>Aside from static MVP apps and surveys, what other ways are there to gauge the market for a new business idea?