Product StrategyProven Pattern

Ship MVP quickly by repurposing code from previous projects

Insight from Mattia Pomelli

When to use

When you have experience building similar products and can leverage existing code, components, or architectural patterns to dramatically accelerate development of a new MVP.

Don't do this

Starting from scratch on every new project when you have reusable assets, or spending months perfecting an MVP when you could validate the concept faster with repurposed code.

4 Founders Who Did This

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SubmitHubby Jason Grishkoff

Ship MVP in 1 month by cloning tutorial code and adapting it. Partially working feature beats no feature - perfection blocks progress.

Result:Applied by Jason Grishkoff at SubmitHub
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Jason Grishkoff

Ship scrappy features fast rather than perfect code

Result:Applied by Jason Grishkoff
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Sleekby Mattia Pomelli

Reuse code from previous projects to ship faster - leverage past work as foundation

Result:Applied by Mattia Pomelli at Sleek
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ShipFastby Marc Lou

After building 10-15 products, he noticed he was reusing the same code (landing page, deploy, payments, emails, accounts). Built ShipFast boilerplate in less than a week by packaging this reused code.

Result:Launched immediately with zero build time. Made $500 in 2 hours, $40K first month because the product was already validated through his own repeated use.
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