New MVP tech stack: Tweet + Stripe payment link
How bare can you go when it comes to MVPs?
A bit of a trending indie hacker thing: Validating product ideas with just a tweet, and a Stripe payment link to collect presales.
Before, the barest of MVPs would be a landing page with some copy and an email sign-up form, ala Dropbox.
Now, you don’t even need a domain and website! Just tweet and buy button! Love how we’re pushing it to test product ideas with the most minimum of effort.
I find this to be poetic. Such economy of effort, and so simple an approach to show an idea. No bells and whistles, no snazzy “change the world” copy, no invasive click funnel tracking, no rainbow gradient call-to-action text or buttons.
Just 280 characters. And a link to buy.
The 280 characters is key. If you can’t communicate what’s valuable to your customers in a tweet, maybe it doesn’t really have legs.
The Stripe payment link is key too. Waitlist sign-ups are notoriously unreliable metrics to validate market demand. It’s such low commitment to just give your email. But open up your wallet to pay right there right now, with no real product made yet? A lot of upfront faith, a huge commitment and a great signal for demand.
And with tweets having only a 24-48h life cycle, it’s clear at the end if your idea have potential.
Tweet + buy = pure poetry.