Getting early feedback can be harder than building the MVP

Restaurants, bars, cafes, and similar venues often use many separate tools for bookings, menus, events, staff work, customer pages, , and daily . A first MVP has been built to test whether these businesses want one simpler place for the basics. The main difficulty is not building the product, but getting venue owners or staff to give early feedback.

Longer messages, short survey requests, and personal contacts have mostly led to no replies. The practical question is how to ask small businesses for useful early input without sounding like spam or a needy sales pitch.

Key points

  • Hospitality venues often rely on separate tools for bookings, menus, events, staff tasks, and .
  • The MVP aims to combine basic venue needs into one simpler tool.
  • through long messages, surveys, and personal contacts has not produced many replies.
  • For small-, can be a bigger than coding.
  • Early works better when the request is short, specific, and easy to answer.
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