“if you can get people excited about a crappy app it's not going to be scalable right because it's crappy... but if you can get people actually using it despite all and that's the hidden secret of launching an MVP.”

A Crappy App That Gets Used Proves Market Pull — A Pretty App Might Just Attract Looks

Adam shipped an embarrassingly bare-bones iOS wrapper — just the map, nothing else. But people kept opening it. That signal matters more than polish: if users tolerate bugs to access your core value, you have product-market pull worth investing in. Build a beautiful app and you risk attracting curiosity rather than genuine demand. The MVP's job is to expose that one rare insight, not to impress.