How not to over-complicate tech for MVP

Most of the people over-complicate tech when building the MVP / v1 of their product.

Mistake: Where they go wrong?

❌ Your product might end up failing since it took 5x time to build your own infrastructure

❌ You need to handle security, scaling, deployments, observability and so many stuff.

Solution: Use a BaaS instead!

✅ Your GTM takes upto 5x less time

✅ You can safely ignore security, scaling, and all the complexity which comes with backend infra

For 99% of the products, they don't need to build their own infra, and simply use BaaS or similar tech

What is a Baas?

Backend as a Service (BaaS) is simply your own backend + database infra without all the hassle

What are the advantages?

- Removing complexity of Backend + Database infra

- Scalable upto millions of MAUs

- Takes care of best practices like security, scaling.

- Affordable, starting from a couple of dollars a month and pay as you go

Popular examples of BaaS are Firebase, Appwrite, Supabase and so on.

And by the time your product reaches millions of MAUs, you'd be in a much better position in terms of resources (cost, team, time) to build your own Infrastructure then.