--- title: Don't Forget to Improve your MVP | daily.dev description: Building an MVP and never iterating on it is a common trap. Through the experience of leaving a custom combo creator feature in a boxing app untouched for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-forget-to-improve-your-mvp-gyo0sdsfw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Don't Forget to Improve your MVP | daily.dev og:description: Building an MVP and never iterating on it is a common trap. Through the experience of leaving a custom combo creator feature in a boxing app untouched for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-forget-to-improve-your-mvp-gyo0sdsfw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gYo0SDsfW.png og:image:alt: Don't Forget to Improve your MVP og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Don't Forget to Improve your MVP **[Marc G Gauthier](https://daily.dev/sources/marcgg)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Building an MVP and never iterating on it is a common trap. Through the experience of leaving a custom combo creator feature in a boxing app untouched for nearly two years, the author illustrates two key risks: missing out on gains from MVP learnings, and implicitly pushing teams in larger organizations toward building bigger, unvalidated features instead of shipping small and iterating. The post walks through the shortcuts taken in the original MVP, the improvements made after rediscovering the feature's value, and the importance of consistently revisiting minimum viable features based on user feedback and data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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