“When I first shipped my product I hosted it on a site called Heroku and the first person I gave it to they got an application error but they still managed to use some of the core features and were able to still use the app. Yes there were bugs. Yes there were issues but the main idea of the app was working. So as long as what you're trying to solve works I think you can ship anything.”

Ship a Broken MVP Immediately If the Core Feature Actually Works

Sam built his first MVP in a week by copy-pasting AI-generated code into VS Code with zero prior technical knowledge. Despite the product throwing an application error on the very first user interaction, that user still extracted value from it. This formed his core shipping philosophy: polish is secondary to solving the pain point.