WORK / WANNA / ONE_TIME_PROJECT
Three MVPs in three months
to find the product.
Wanna wanted to build a new kind of social app — new ways for people to interact beyond feeds and likes. Instead of betting a year on one guess, we made three small bets, tested each with real people, and handed the founders a direction they could commit to.
01_the_brief
A vision, not a spec.
The founders came with a conviction: social apps had stopped helping people actually connect, and there was room for something more meaningful. What they did not have was certainty about which shape that product should take.
The biggest risk was not technical. It was spending a year and a funding round building the wrong version — beautifully.
02_what_i_built
Three small bets instead of one big one.
We scoped three distinct takes on the idea, and I built each one as a real, working MVP — small enough to ship in weeks, complete enough to put in front of real people and watch what happened.
The concept that went furthest was a video-first space where people answer meaningful personal questions — the kind you rarely get asked — and share them in small groups.
03_the_handoff
Their product, their team, their code.
After three months the founders had what they hired me for: three tested directions, real user signal, and working software. An internal team took over from there — code, accounts, everything.
Today's Wanna app is built by that team, evolving the concepts those MVPs uncovered. That is exactly how a one-time project should end: I become unnecessary.
what_i_learned
An MVP is a question you can afford to ask.
Three cheap questions taught Wanna more than one expensive answer would have. Speed only matters when each iteration is honest enough to be proven wrong.
build_the_right_thing
Tell me what you are trying to build.
I will help you understand what you actually need, whether that means a one-time product build or ongoing technical leadership.
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