Building a Mini-MVP in a Single Chat Thread

Because in Wonderland, every impossible idea deserves a test run.

Most people start a company by writing a plan.

I start by opening a chat window.

It’s faster than funding, cheaper than courage, and infinitely patient when I ask the same thing three different ways.

My rule is simple: if an idea can survive one conversation, it’s worth a prototype.

🐇 Step 1 — Follow the White Rabbit Prompt

Start with curiosity, not conviction.

“Here’s my idea in one sentence. Ask ten questions a skeptical investor would ask.”

Each answer reveals a hole, and each hole shows the shape of your real product.

By the end, you’ll know whether you’re chasing opportunity—or illusion.

🧩 Step 2 — Sketch Without Blueprints

Ask CoPilot:

“Summarize the central friction point, one feature that solves it, and one metric that proves it works.”

That’s your Mini-MVP — a Minimum Viable Prompt.

It’s not code yet, just logic and clarity.

And clarity builds faster than code anyway.

🫖 Step 3 — Invite the Mad Hatter Team

You don’t need employees yet; you need perspectives.

“Pretend you’re a designer, a developer, a customer, and a skeptic. Argue about my prototype.”

Suddenly you’ve staged a tea-table debate where every voice sharpens the idea.

No payroll required, just caffeine.

🕰️ Step 4 — Run It Before You Build It

“Simulate the first day in the wild. What breaks first?”

Watch what happens.

CoPilot will invent chaos—a bug, a complaint, a tweet—and hand you free foresight.

The first storm always arrives; better to meet it in imagination.

🪞 Step 5 — The Looking-Glass Pitch

Finally, make it real enough to explain:

“Write the pitch for this MVP in 100 words that sound like a TED Talk.”

If it feels believable, you’ve found the story.

If it feels hollow, keep iterating until it smiles back like the Cheshire Cat.

✨ The Takeaway

You don’t need seed funding to test an idea—you need sentences that think.

A single chat thread can be the lab, the audience, and the mirror.

All you have to do is stay curious long enough to ask, “What’s next?”

💬 Try it today:

“Help me build a mini-MVP for an idea I’ve been afraid to test.”

One thread later, you’ll know if you’ve built something possible—or just something wonderful.