Now, if we put what we learned on the slides. We can easily put together an MVP using the magnificent features of wordpress. One way to put the word out there about your new product is to create a landing page that showcases it along with all the most basic and important features. A good stepping stone is getting a theme like Appz by ThemeShaker. If you are the type of person that likes simple. Simple is the new simple. Then, get the Ultimate Coming Soon Page or Coming Soon / Maintenance mode Ready! worpress theme. And, if these two are not enought you should definitely check these 15+ best coming soon themes.

If you are still thinking that it is not possible or it is not a good idea to build products using wordpress to get the initial idea of your product with the market you should listen to the 35th episode of productpeople.tv; Noel Tock on building products on wordpress. Noel Tock’s product HappyTables.com was prototyped and shipped using wordpress.

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Hacker News: WordPress Themes for Launching an MVP
Productpeople.tv: Ep. 35 Noel Tock on building products on wordpress

Oh the mighty minimum viable product (MVP). Many startups have used this method to create the first working prototype of an idea. These days everybody is trying to come up with the latest million dollar innovative invention. All kinds of crazy ideas are being developed everyday in hopes of being noticed, used and most of the time sold for a billion dollars e.g.(Instagram) . Yet, the most interesting thing of it all is that most products are not being developed from scratch, but built on top of an existing platform such as Joomla, Drupal or WordPress.

Wordpres is so easy to use that it has taken the website creation market as by storm. It is very likely that any noob out there building a website is using wordpress to kickstart the project. If you have not grasped the concept yet, let me explain further -Wordpress is so easy to use that you grandmother will be blogging in no time. It is really easy to use. In fact this blog post was published using WordPress.

Check a presentation about MVPs below.

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