I don&#x27;t think of an MVP (minimum viable product) as a prototype, I think of it as the most pared-down application that can still launch.  I don&#x27;t think of this as a shoddy or unreliable app, more a minimalistic one in terms of features, but it does need to work and be stable enough for the initial needs of the business.<p>If you got a good developer at 100k an hour, that leaves you with 1000 hours to create a minimum viable product, or a little over six months.<p>I guess it depends on what you&#x27;re trying to do, how well you want it to scale initially, and so forth.  Kind of curious, this community does tend to lean toward fast startups rather than slow big corps, is six months and 100k considered clearly excessive for an MVP?