Most founders fail their MVP by overbuilding.
An MVP is not a small version of your final product—it is a test of your riskiest assumption.
If your MVP already includes full auth flows, dashboards, settings, onboarding, and edge cases, you are no longer validating, you are building infrastructure.
The goal is simple:
Ship fast
Validate one core behavior
Learn from real users
Iterate immediately
Everything else is optional until proven necessary.
This is exactly why structured MVP development approaches like Foundersbar exist—to force clarity before complexity creeps in.
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