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Tyner Blain
Personal blog · tynerblain.com/blogbusinesscareer
Tyner Blain is a personal blog at tynerblain.com about business and career. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-03, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
One commenter cites this blog as an example of confusion about the term 'minimum viable product'. The linked posts cover what an MVP means and why products fail.
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What Hacker News says?
> I'm quite surprised by this, since to me there's little to disagree about. A "minimum viable product" seems like a very simple description to me. I've found a lot of confusion about the term. Just a few of the many examples I've read: https://hbr.org/2013/09/building-a-minimum-viable-prod/ , http://tynerblain.com/blog/2012/09/11/why-do-products-fail-i... , http://paulkortman.com/2012/11/21/the-problem-with-a-lean-…
Comment linking /blog/2012/09/11/why-do-products-fail-incomplete-solutions/
on “A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It’s a Process”Submitted Good Enough – Intentional Incremental Improvement as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agile Through a Matrix Lens as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Opposite Views of a Product Roadmap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don’t Listen to Your Market as a story · 1 points
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