“like with anything else it always starts with can this work from a technical perspective at least you know can I actually find a way to type in text and have this web app output a faceless video so for the first month that's really all this MVP was”

Strip Your MVP Down to One Falsifiable Technical Question

Jacob spent the entire first month on a single proof-of-concept: input text, output a video. Everything else — user management, payments, pricing — came later once the core loop was confirmed to be technically feasible. Stripping the MVP down to one falsifiable question dramatically shortens the feedback loop before committing to a full product build.