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Every article on MVP published on this blog, newest first: 3 in total, written by Ramón Chancay.

3 articles on MVP

Illustration: a client and the engineer talk; the conversation turns into a written proposal with the scope trimmed and the price sealed, and the payment is split into milestones released one at a time

Product26 Sep 202618 min read

How much does it cost to build an app, and why I quote a fixed price

How much does it cost to build an app? What drives the price, why nobody serious gives you a number before scoping, and what a fixed-price quote guarantees you.

Illustration: a loose ticket that ends in a block of code, next to a continuous path that runs from the decision through building, launching and maintaining a product

Product19 Sep 202615 min read

What is a product engineer, and how is that different from a programmer?

What a product engineer does, how the role differs from a programmer, and how to tell which of the two your business needs before you hire anyone.

Illustration of Spec-Driven Development: a specification turns into acceptance criteria and from there into the earthquake list of a mobile app

AI5 Sep 202623 min read

Spec-Driven Development in React Native: an MVP that lists the world's earthquakes, specified before writing code

Spec-Driven Development on a React Native MVP that lists the world's earthquakes: the spec decides what the list shows; its acceptance criteria become tests.