How to Build an MVP in the AI Coding Era

1. MSMichael Seibel0:00

   I think for better or for worse, the consistent problem has always been how do you help your customers be more successful? If you had asked me five years ago, "Oh, the price of building features has decreased, that's obviously good," I think I would've probably said yes. And I think that, like, the TLDR of this video is, like-

2. DCDalton Caldwell0:20

   Unclear.

3. MSMichael Seibel0:23

   [upbeat music] This is Dalton + Michael, and today we're gonna talk about how to build an MVP in the age of AI. This is interesting topic, 'cause I actually think we have to disagree with our former advice.

4. DCDalton Caldwell0:37

   Yep.

5. MSMichael Seibel0:37

   Or there's a different set of constraints now. It used to be the case you had to figure out what's the smallest set of features to build that would create value, because building features was costly. We're now in maybe a different situation. [laughs]

6. DCDalton Caldwell0:52

   [laughs]

7. MSMichael Seibel0:53

   What, what environment are we in now? [laughs]

8. DCDalton Caldwell0:55

   I think that's completely right. I think much has been said of how to build an MVP and get first customers, and there's-

9. MSMichael Seibel1:00

   Yes

10. DCDalton Caldwell1:00

    ... you know, we've talked about it. There's great content out there. But I think that advice needs updating-

11. MSMichael Seibel1:04

    Yes

12. DCDalton Caldwell1:05

    ... to AI tools.

13. MSMichael Seibel1:06

    Yes.

14. DCDalton Caldwell1:06

    And I could speak to this myself a little bit-

15. MSMichael Seibel1:08

    Mm-hmm

16. DCDalton Caldwell1:08

    ... because I recently built a product and, and launched it. You know, it's called StandardDB if people wanna check it out. But we won't, we won't talk about the specifics, but-

17. MSMichael Seibel1:16

    Mm-hmm

18. DCDalton Caldwell1:17

    ... guys, I've gone, I've gone through this. I just built and launched a product.

19. MSMichael Seibel1:19

    Yes.

20. DCDalton Caldwell1:19

    And so let me start with what's different. Number one, it is so much easier to build features-

21. MSMichael Seibel1:24

    [laughs]

22. DCDalton Caldwell1:25

    ... that for me to launch that, I had to delete 80% of the features that I built in the MVP.

23. MSMichael Seibel1:33

    That's, that-

24. DCDalton Caldwell1:34

    [laughs]

25. MSMichael Seibel1:34

    ... that is not an old problem. That is a very new problem. [laughs]

26. DCDalton Caldwell1:37

    I built this crazy, huge thing with my co-founder Brian in two weeks, and I'm like, "Oh, this is bad. This is, this is, like, a bunch of crap."

27. MSMichael Seibel1:47

    Gotta cut. [laughs]

28. DCDalton Caldwell1:47

    And so I had to, I had to cut.

29. MSMichael Seibel1:49

    Yeah.

30. DCDalton Caldwell1:49

    And that feels very different to me-

Episode duration: 12:22