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What is the ideal time you should take to create your mvp for tech related software

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Shallon Brown, Fractional CTO for Startups, Presales, & Scaling answered:

Great question — and one I help founders and product teams navigate often during our MVP strategy sessions.

The ideal time to create a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for tech-related software is typically between 6 to 12 weeks. That range allows you to validate a core problem-solution fit without overbuilding, overspending, or overengineering. The key is focusing on solving a single, high-impact pain point for your target users using the leanest tech stack and clearest user experience possible.

Here’s what I tell clients I advise as a fractional CTO:
If your MVP is taking longer than 12 weeks to build, you’re probably building a version 1.0 instead of a true MVP.
Conversely, if it takes under 4 weeks, you may not be gathering enough data to validate market interest or usage behavior.

During my Clarity calls, I help you:

-Prioritize feature sets that drive real validation (and ignore the noise)

-Choose the right architecture and platform for speed, scalability, and budget

-Avoid common MVP traps like overengineering, tech stack mismatch, or skipping the user feedback loop

-And most importantly: Translate business goals into actionable tech strategy that attracts users and investors faster.

If you're still figuring out how to scope, validate, or build your MVP, let's connect. A 30-minute session could save you 3 months of wasted dev time and help you bring your product to market with confidence.

Meeta Sadhwani, Tech Mentor | MVP Specialist | UI/UX for SaaS answered:

Ideally, 6 to 12 weeks is a good window. That’s enough to build something that solves one core problem, without falling into the trap of overengineering.

The goal of an MVP isn’t to impress, it’s to learn. You’re testing whether users actually care, whether they’ll use it, and whether your assumptions hold up. So pick the riskiest assumption and design around that.

No-code or design prototypes can come even faster, and sometimes that’s all you need to validate the idea before writing real code.

In my experience with early-stage founders, the MVPs that succeed are the ones that stay sharply focused. Skip login flows, dashboards, and layered features in version one. Build just enough to deliver real value to users, and let their feedback shape what comes next.

Hope this helps.

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