Features I Wish I Included in my MVP

Two months ago, I launched an MVP. I've been able to grow my mobile app to 31,000 users, and am realizing that there are some things I regret not including from the beginning. From my experience, here are 6 features you should consider in your MVP that take little extra work for very high reward.

1. Choose A Font

It sound obvious, but I went two months using the default font that Android/iOS provides. I finally took the time to change to a curated font, and wow, it instantly makes such a difference.

It ups your look 10x, and it takes minimal effort to implement. The overhead is light enough to warrant having this in your MVP

2. Add an Invite Friends/Share button

This would have accelerated my growth much more quickly in the beginning. It takes some learning to get right, but it wouldn't take you more than a day to add it in well.

3. Prompt Users for Feedback

It's an MVP. You need to know how people are using your product, and where they think it's going to be improved. Finding the right moment to prompt for feedback can be tricky, but very worth it.

4. Be Descriptive

Your product is new. People do not know how to use your product. Be descriptive, no matter how simple it seems to you. For example, my app used to say: "Add some friends"

Now it says: "To add friends, go to the search tab and look for their username"

Isn't that so much clearer? I no longer get questions about how to add friends.

5. Add an Onboarding Process

In relation to being more descriptive, give users a tour when they walk in! Let them know how you intend for them to use your product.

Users will benefit from learning the language that you are creating within your product's environment.

6. Implement one-click login

Passwords suck to type, verifying your password sucks, getting a verification email sucks, etc..

Use a federated login, or the simplest login possible, because you will lose people with an annoying signup process.

Trust me, I've lost hundreds.

Thanks for reading!

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