MFS = Minimum feature set: what's the minmum set of features that would make your product useful enough so people will bother to sign up for it? Is it stable enough?
I know we have the mantra "release early and often", but if you release something way too early, people will look at it, close the browser and move on. Maybe have friends or other people you know take a look at it, before releasing it as a beta?
Depending on the audience of your product, you can have even family try it out. If it is something for general public, you would get a lot of feedback from sisters/brothers close friends about usability.
My benchmark are my sister and brother in law. They are both pretty smart (one a financial analyst, and the other the lawyer), competent in computers, but definetly not techies. if something in navigation doesn't make sense to them, then the general public will have even more trouble figuring it out.
I know we have the mantra "release early and often", but if you release something way too early, people will look at it, close the browser and move on. Maybe have friends or other people you know take a look at it, before releasing it as a beta?
Depending on the audience of your product, you can have even family try it out. If it is something for general public, you would get a lot of feedback from sisters/brothers close friends about usability.
My benchmark are my sister and brother in law. They are both pretty smart (one a financial analyst, and the other the lawyer), competent in computers, but definetly not techies. if something in navigation doesn't make sense to them, then the general public will have even more trouble figuring it out.