“The sooner you ship, the better, because sometimes you imagine your client wants this, but what they actually want is this… AI Career for instance, MVP was a simple feature, bad quality, done in a month — then a year of work to improve it.”

Ship the ugly first version in a month — clients will tell you what to polish

You cannot predict what users want from your head. Ship a rough version in a month, get it in front of real customers, and let their feedback drive the year of polish that follows.