90% of startups fail in their first five years but the reaming 1% will fly.

To start anything you have to leave your comfort zone first.

Either you are working with your project for a portfolio or startup, you should follow only one rule to build from zero to one. Start with a Prototype, Follow with an MVP and Then Get to the Final Product

“A prototype is a representation of the product soul in a raw way” - Chaduvula Prasanth

When I started making a prototype about customised apparel. I made a form and got orders for customisations. keep one thing in mind. Always prototype is to get early adopter’s feedback to build your MVP.

While running my prototype, I got an order of customised Tshirts for my university annual college fest. which was a sort of 20,000 rupees.

After collecting user feedback start making your MVP of the product.

“Your entire success will be based on 1 or 2 features, no more.”- Fred Lalonde, Hopper Co-Founder. which means the beauty of having a growing user base is - you start getting a lot of feedback & feature requests. The challenge is they can completely change product strategy if you let them.

To make MVP of my product I just used twko chat tool where customers can chat with us to get their orders done. we got 1500 orders from the three colleges and with an 87% student occupancy in each college and made 1.2 million INR.

When you are working on MVP of your startup product. “if you truly want to stand out, you need to strive toward creating a minimum lovable product instead”

Once you got your early valuable users, now “your job should be defining what needs to be built to delight user” - Chaduvula Prasanth

In the initial stage of the startup, built your core features and release it to your users. To make it a successful startup. you should be the sheep and your consumers will be the shepherd. they will guide you and you have to build according to their needs.