What would the MVP for this transportation startup actually be? [I will not promote]
We’re working on a university startup project focused on student transportation.
The idea is a service that coordinates shared transportation for students going to school and after-school activities. Students would enter their address and schedule, and the system would assign optimized pickup stops and routes.
So far, we have:
- a survey to validate the problem,
- route simulations,
- and a prototype of the future app experience.
However, our professor told us that what we currently have is not really an MVP, and now we’re struggling to understand what the MVP for this kind of startup should actually look like.
A real operational MVP (like running an actual bus service) is obviously difficult at our stage, so we’re trying to understand what would realistically count as an MVP for a transportation/logistics startup like this.
Would manually coordinating routes, pickup stops, and schedules count as an MVP? Or would that still be considered only validation/prototyping?