Building MVPs That Scale with Angelo Zanetti
You've poured your savings into building the MVP of your dream app. It launches. Users love it. Then six months later, a developer tells you the worst news possible: "You need to rebuild everything from scratch."
This nightmare scenario happens more often than you think—and it's completely avoidable.
In this episode of Ace Founder, Angelo Zanetti of Elemental breaks down exactly how to build an MVP that can actually scale, the hidden traps that force expensive rebuilds, and so much more.
If you're building a startup or thinking about turning your idea into reality, this conversation could save you from wasting months and thousands of dollars on an MVP that's doomed from the start.
📚 What We Talk About:
00:46 Angelo's Background and Journey
03:32 Defining MVPs in the Startup World
05:10 The difference between core and non-Core features
07:07 How founders work with developers to define features, prioritize functionalities, and create specifications for the build
10:42 Why you should build fast on core features but choose scalable technology from day one, not throw-away solutions
12:27 How scaling refers to both growing user numbers and adding new capabilities without rebuilding from scratch
14:15 The importance of choosing the right development platform.
17:35 The critical difference between prototypes and MVPs
💭 Key Quotes:
A core feature is something that if your product never had this feature, then the product wouldn't work.
We're not really a big fan of building something, testing it, getting validation, throwing it away, and then restarting it.
A prototype is a proof of concept. An MVP is an actual product with validation, rules, logic, and automation.
If you launch something buggy with defects, you're irritating your users, making a bad first impression, and losing credibility.
Sometimes, the wrong technology decisions are made in the beginning, and founders who aren't technical find out the hard way later on.
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