Sometimes you can test the demand for a new product or an application’s ability to meet business without actual coding and with minimum possible investments. For this, ScienceSoft uses such MVP types as:

• A ‘landing page’ MVP (for products) – text or video presentation that introduces your idea to a target audience to evaluate the demand via requests or sign-up forms, and also analyze the interest in the features and prioritize the development accordingly.
• A ‘flintstone’ MVP – advertising new software and faking the automation of processes you want it to perform, handling them manually behind-the-scenes.

Best practice: If a no-code MVP turns successful, we at ScienceSoft immediately plan a code-based MVP not to get overwhelmed with the processes executed manually (a ‘flintstone’ MVP case) and ensure that our customers are ahead of competitors.

Code-based MVP development

The types we at ScienceSoft prioritize are:

• Single-feature MVP – implementing one key feature of future software that creates the core value.
• ‘Piecemeal’ MVP – creating a product/a custom application version comprising its basic features out of ready-made elements (created by you in the previous projects or available open source). Later, you are likely to update or replace the reused parts.

The development of a software-based MVP with ScienceSoft usually has the following stages: