The most common mistake we see founders make isn't picking the wrong tech stack — it's building too much before they've validated anything. An MVP that takes six months to ship has already failed at being minimal.

Before we scope any project, we ask three questions: What is the one action a user must be able to complete for this product to have value? What can we fake or do manually behind the scenes instead of building it? And what can wait until after we have real users?

A payment gateway integration, an admin dashboard with twelve report types, push notifications with granular preferences — these are all things founders ask for on day one that almost never need to exist before your first 50 users. We push back on this list hard, because every extra screen is extra time between you and market feedback.

The result of a properly scoped MVP: something that ships in 6-10 weeks, costs a fraction of the 'full vision,' and gives you real usage data to decide what to build next — instead of guessing.