90% of startups fail, and feature bloat kills momentum. We are going to discuss startup MVP development with an example of FlowScape (a pseudonym for a real B2B workflow automation platform) achieved the improbable: 10,000 paying subscribers in 18 months without VC funding or a large engineering team. The Trap They Avoided Like many founders, FlowScape’s co-founders, Maya and Ben, first created a 50-page specification document. They envisioned AI-driven analytics, over 50 integrations, and a mobile app. However, after interviewing 120 potential customers, mostly operations managers stressed by manual Slack and email handoffs, they found a common issue. Many said, "I just need to route client requests to the right team member without creating 10 different tickets." The big vision could wait. Know the Magic of Lean MVP Instead of months of development, they built a "Wizard of Oz" MVP in 10 days: Core Functionality Only : A single web form where clients submitted ...