Can someone explain to me the difference between a MVP and a a cool side/personal project?
Jaequerry, I'm going to install it and check it out. The extension looks cool. It solves a pain for me, but not one I would go to the trouble of paying for (sorry). I'm genuinely confused as to what the difference is between all the free non revenue generating chrome extensions made out of love and one made by an HNer that are labeled as potential products (which implies revenue generating to me). Which category are you gearing this toward?
Is your desire to monetize this? If so how? I feel kinda harsh, but there have been a few Show HN MVP posts lately that have been confusing me regarding the line between potential revenue generating products and nifty side projects.
Note: I failed at a project hard this month after pouring 8 months of my life into it... I am probably having one of those days.
I can understand where you are coming from. I feel the same about some MVP posts on HN time to time.
But if you were to ask me, MVP literally is what it says, a minimum viable product. Just a product decent enough so that other people can use it or to check it out.
I know many companies that spends over a year getting ready for MVP, myself included, and it depends on the product. Some products take a long time to get the MVP out and it's just the nature of the business.
As for honeybadger, I put this tool up over two weekends. I use it for my purpose and it's still too early to tell what I can do with it. All I know right now is that, this tool comes in handy for me even at the current state, just pulling up crunchbase data site to site. But learning from today, I realize I am facing an issue in that obtaining the API to get the traffic stats isn't free (there's a daily quota limit) so there does need to be a way for me to offset this cost somehow when I upgrade to premium. I just hope it doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
I'm not sure if the title of the original post was changed or not, but after reading over the linked website, I did not see any mention of him charging for this. It appears to be a free extension that he is sharing.
Don't feel bad. I ask myself this for about 80% of the projects I saw posted here on HN. I used to ask the posters themselves, but I rarely got any answers beyond a vague "we'll sell advertising." Really? Do you have any experience in sales of any kind, let alone advertising sales?
My (somewhat cynical) guess is that what used to be called a "side project" is now getting the title "MVP" or "startup" because it sounds cool.
I should add that this is a general note, not directed at this particular project.
It's a difference in the author's attitude toward the project. A person who feels that they're building an MVP will be looking for ways to monetize it, while for "just a side-project" monetization might be an after-thought or explicitly not an objective.
Jaequerry, I'm going to install it and check it out. The extension looks cool. It solves a pain for me, but not one I would go to the trouble of paying for (sorry). I'm genuinely confused as to what the difference is between all the free non revenue generating chrome extensions made out of love and one made by an HNer that are labeled as potential products (which implies revenue generating to me). Which category are you gearing this toward?
Is your desire to monetize this? If so how? I feel kinda harsh, but there have been a few Show HN MVP posts lately that have been confusing me regarding the line between potential revenue generating products and nifty side projects.
Note: I failed at a project hard this month after pouring 8 months of my life into it... I am probably having one of those days.