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See how Airbnb, Dropbox, and Instagram launched with radically simple first versions
Part of From Idea To Tested MVP
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You know these companies as billion-dollar platforms. But their first versions? Laughably simple.
The pattern: Successful startups almost always launch with something that feels too basic, too limited, too scrappy. Then they iterate based on what users actually want.
Let's see exactly how small they started—and why it worked.
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What pattern do Airbnb, Instagram, and Stripe all share in their MVP approach?
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Use what you learned from successful launches to design your own tiny first version.
Patterns: Solve your problem, start tiny, manual first, one core feature.