MVP Scope Checklist
Define what ships — and what waits for v2.
Onboarding & Login
- Sign-up flow (email/password minimum)
- Social login (Google, Apple — if required for app store)
- Password reset
- Account verification email
Catalog Browsing & Search
- Homepage / featured rail
- Category / genre browsing
- Search (full-text minimum; filter by type is v2)
- Detail page (title, description, trailer, related)
Playback
- Video player (web, iOS, Android)
- Resume playback (per user, per title)
- Quality selection (auto is minimum)
- Subtitles / closed captions (if required)
- DRM (Widevine + FairPlay for mobile/web MVP)
Payments (if monetized)
- Subscription plan selection
- Payment capture (Stripe or app-store billing)
- Entitlement check before playback
- Subscription management (cancel, upgrade)
- Receipts / billing emails
Profiles (if needed)
- Multiple profiles per account (optional for MVP)
- Watch history per profile
- Watchlist / favorites
Analytics (minimum instrumentation)
- Content start / complete events
- Playback error events
- Search queries
- Sign-up and login events
- Purchase events
Admin
- Content ingest / CMS workflow
- User management (lookup, disable)
- Subscription override (for support team)
What to defer to v2
- Live channels / EPG
- Multi-language audio tracks
- Download for offline
- Advanced analytics dashboards
- Complex recommendation engine
- CRM integration
Rule of thumb: if a feature is not needed to acquire and retain your first 1,000 paying subscribers, it belongs in v2.
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