How did i created a successful Tinder for startups and validated MVP in just 3 days

Naveen Meena
2 min readSep 22, 2019

I was determined by one thing, if there’s a need then there’s a business. i was myself facing a issue of funds and resources.Due to this one day i was trying to cry, i though that after crying i will get more encouragement. but i was not able to cry, so i think i should use tinder when no one will match with me so i will cry for that. so i started swiping, it was so good to swipe right. I thought iffunding could be like tinder and tried my best effort to cry but i could not make it happen. Suddenly i realised why funding can’t be like Tinder. i was thinking to develop my own website, but my web skills were very limited. so i checked on internet that how much time it will take to develop an app or web like tinder. answer was if there’s team of 10 experts then the time will be 30 days minimum. I was unable to think of this. Then i thought to buy or develop from software development companies and the cost was around some 20–30k USD, that was also my out of limit.

Now i was again thinking of funding but no one will fund only in words or idea. but i was curious to know that how much people will show interest. so i developed one php and one html page and uploaded them with configuration files on free hosting and i created form in php which saves users data in database and one next page shows, there’s a huge traffic, you can’t complete registration now. next day i created a content for product launching and uploaded content with a post on linkedIn and in my social network. on that day i was at my first stage of MVP without any code or any thing just a php form and a single html file which shows “there’s too much traffic”. i was expecting around 25–50 responds that day and i got 75. my first stage of MVP for users was validated. now i asked my college friend to write backend for me and i will write front end. after writing code 18 hours a day we created our basic webapp in just 15 days, which was a great boost on our perspectives. after our launch, we got 1000 users(including overseas startups and investors) in next one month.

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